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Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The pilot episode, The Boy in the Iceberg, was first shown on February 21, 2005, and the last episode, Sozin's Comet, was first shown on July 19, 2008.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The series was created by Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, and the head writer for the series was Aaron Ehasz.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The show is about a world where people can control, or "bend," one of the four elements—water, earth, fire, or air.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In the show, Aang and his friends Katara, Sokka, and later Toph Beifong must save the world by defeating Fire Lord Ozai, who is the ruler of the Fire Nation.
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 Aang and his friends want to end a war between the Fire Nation and the other nations that has lasted for one hundred years.
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 At the same time, Zuko, who used to be the prince of the Fire Nation, tries to capture Aang and defeat him.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The moves that the characters make when they bend are based on different styles of martial arts, such as kung fu and tai chi, and the art style of the show is similar to the style of Japanese anime.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar: The Last Airbender received high ratings when it aired, which means that many people watched it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The show was made for 6- to 11-year-olds, but even people who were not 6 to 11 watched and liked it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In addition, Avatar: The Last Airbender talks about difficult things that children's shows do not talk about often.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 It has won five Annie Awards, a Genesis Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Kids' Choice Award, and a Peabody Award.
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 One of these is an animated sequel series, The Legend of Korra, that tells what happens 70 years after the events of the first show.
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 There are also two prequel novels, a live-action film, and a series of comics, which are still being made.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar: The Last Airbender takes place in a world that is home to humans, fantastic animals, and spirits.
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 The world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation.
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 Some people who live in each nation have the power to magically control and use, or "bend," the element of that nation.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The way that the show portrays the fighting style from each nation is based on a martial art from real life.
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 For instance, "waterbenders" (people who can magically control and use water) have a fighting style that is based on tai chi chuan from real life.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Each nation is also connected to a season: autumn for the Air Nomads, winter for the Water Tribe, spring for the Earth Kingdom and summer for the Fire Nation.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In the world that Avatar: The Last Airbender shows, there is always only one person alive who can bend all four elements.
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 Usually, it is a challenge for the Avatar to learn how to bend the element that is the opposite of their first, or "native," element.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 For instance, the main character of the show, Aang, was born to Air Nomads, so air was the first element he learned to bend.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 This is different from airbending, which focuses on getting to your opponents in many different ways and changing your style quickly if it is necessary.
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 When an Avatar goes into the Avatar State, he or she gains all of the knowledge and abilities that all of the past Avatars have had.
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 However, if he or she practices for a very long time, he or she can control when they go into the Avatar State and what they do while they are in it.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 One hundred years before the story begins, a twelve-year-old Airbender named Aang learns that he is the new Avatar.
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 He is not happy when he learns this, because he knows that being the Avatar is a big responsibility, and he does not think he is ready for it.
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 But they fly into a big storm and crash into the ocean, and Aang goes into the Avatar State and freezes himself and Appa inside an iceberg.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Fire Lord Sozin, the leader of the Fire Nation, knows that the new Avatar is an Air Nomad (because of the Avatar Cycle's pattern), so he kills all of the Air Nomads in a genocide.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 This is because he wants to make sure that the Avatar, who is very powerful, will not be able to defeat the Fire Nation in the war.
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 The FIre Nation army is able to kill all of the Air Nomads because a comet called "Sozin's Comet" made their bending much more powerful.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 A hundred years later, Katara and Sokka, two siblings who live in the Southern Water Tribe, free Aang and Appa from the iceberg.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Katara, Sokka, and Aang travel to the Northern Water Tribe so Aang and Katara can learn waterbending from a master.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 This is because Sozin's Comet will return on that day, and it will make the firebenders' bending very powerful.
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 If Aang does not defeat the current Fire Lord, Ozai, by the summer solstice, then the Fire Nation will take over the world and no one will be able to stop them anymore.
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 While Katara, Sokka, and Aang travel to the Northern Water Tribe, they are constantly chased by Prince Zuko.
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 Zuko is the son of the current Fire Lord, Ozai, but Ozai banished him from the Fire Nation three years before the story starts.
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 He travels with his uncle Iroh, nicknamed "Dragon of the West", a legendary Fire Nation general and the older brother of Ozai.
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 At the end of the season, Admiral Zhao leads the Fire Nation navy in attacking the Northern Water Tribe.
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 But Aang and his friends help fight back against this attack, and Yue, the princess of the Northern Water Tribe, sacrifices herself (in other words, she decides to die) so she can become the new Moon Spirit.
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 She is blind, but knows how to "see" (or sense her surroundings) through earthbending and by feeling vibrations, or small shakes, in the earth.
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 They escape to Ba Sing Se, the capital city of the Earth Kingdom, where they try to start new lives.
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 Zuko, with the help of his uncle, tries to accept the difficult events he has gone through in his life, and he learns to not be so focused on capturing the Avatar.
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 Aang and his friends (who are sometimes called "Team Avatar") learn about a solar eclipse that will happen in the future.
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 While Team Avatar travels to Ba Sing Se so they can tell the Earth King about the eclipse, Zuko's younger sister Azula and her two friends Mai and Ty Lee try to capture them.
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 Finally, the three of them capture the Kyoshi Warriors (friends of Team Avatar) and pretend to be them, so that they can invade Ba Sing Se.
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 Azula persuades an elite group of Earthbenders called the Dai Li to instigate a coup d'état, allowing the Fire Nation to capture Ba Sing Se.
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 At the end of the season, when Team Avatar is fighting against Azula and her allies, Zuko sides with Azula, who promises to restore his honor.
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 Katara brings Aang back to life with spirit water that she got from the North Pole in the previous season.
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 Aang awakens to find the group disguised as Fire Nation soldiers heading West on a Fire Nation ship, while Zuko has been restored to his position as crown prince.
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 Sokka has planned a small-scale invasion of the Fire Nation to capture the Fire Lord's palace and defeat Fire Lord Ozai, taking advantage of the solar eclipse.
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 The invasion will be staged by a ragtag group of benders and warriors who Aang has helped along his journey.
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 Initially the invasion proceeds as planned, but Aang fails to find the Fire Lord before the eclipse ends, because Azula knew about the invasion.
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 Zuko is crowned the new Fire Lord and, with the help of the Avatar and his friends, begins rebuilding the four nations.
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 Michael Dante DiMartino, who made the TV show, said that Sokka could have been a Waterbender, but he never learned how to do it.
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 Iroh (Mako in season one and two, Greg Baldwin in season three) used to be a general for the Fire Lord.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar: The Last Airbender was co-created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 According to Bryan Konietzko, the program was conceived in the spring of 2001 when he took an old sketch of a balding, middle-aged man and re-imagined the character as a child.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Konietzko described their early development of the concept: The co-creators successfully pitched the idea to Nickelodeon VP and executive producer Eric Coleman just two weeks later.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The show was first revealed to the public in a teaser reel at Comic-Con 2004, and started show the episodes from 21 February 2005.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In the United States, first two episodes of the series were shown together in a one-hour premiere event.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 A third and final season, beginning September 21, 2007, featured twenty-one episodes rather than the usual twenty.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The show's character designs are heavily influenced by anime as well as Chinese art and history, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Yoga.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 For each instance of calligraphy, an appropriate style is used, ranging from seal script (more archaic) to clerical script.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The show employed a cultural consultant, Edwin Zane, and calligrapher Siu-Leung Lee as consultants for the show's cultural influences.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In an interview, Bryan revealed that, "Mike and I were really interested in other epic 'Legends & Lore' properties, like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, but we knew that we wanted to take a different approach to that type of genre.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Our love for Japanese anime, Hong Kong action and kung fu cinema, yoga, and Eastern philosophies led us to the initial inspiration for Avatar."
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 All music and sound used in the series was done by Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Wynn, who form "The Track Team".
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 They made use of a wide range of different instruments (such as the guzheng,  pipa and duduk) to compose a background music that fits into the world.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The word Avatāra, (Sanskrit: ), which means "descent"; its roots are ava means "down," and tri means "to pass."
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The Chinese characters that appear at the top of the show's title card mean "the divine medium who has descended upon the mortal world."
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 When Aang was young, he unknowingly revealed that he was the Avatar when he chose four toys out of thousands, each of which were the childhood toys of the previous Avatars.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In Magic and Mystery in Tibet, Alexandra David-Neel writes that "a number of objects such as rosaries, ritualistic implements, books, tea-cups, etc.,
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 are placed together, and the child must pick out those which belonged to the late tulku, thus showing that he recognizes the things which were theirs in their previous life."
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Each successor is expected to show signs of continuity with the previous Avatar, such as being born within a week of the death.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar draws on the four classical elements common to many ancient philosophies for its bending arts: Water, Earth, Fire and Air.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Although each has its own variation, most ancient philosophies incorporate these four elements in some way.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In the show’s opening, each element is accompanied by two Chinese characters: an ancient Chinese seal script character on the left representing the element being shown and a modern Chinese character on the right describing some feature of the element.
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 The character 水 (pinyin: shui), which stands for water, is shown with 善 (pinyin: shan), which means benevolence and adaptivity.
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 The character 土 (pinyin: tu), which stands for earth, is shown with 強 (pinyin: qiang), which means for strength and stability.
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 The character 火 (pinyin: huo), which stands for fire, is shown with 烈 (pinyin: lie), which means intensity and passion.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Finally, the character 气 (pinyin: qi), which stands for air, is shown with 和 (pinyin: he), which means peace and harmony.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In addition to the use of four classical elements in the series, the fighting styles associated with each element are all taken from different styles of Chinese martial arts.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The series employed Sifu Kisu of the Harmonious Fist Chinese Athletic Association as a martial arts consultant.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Tai Chi was used for "Waterbending" in the series, and it focuses on alignment, body structure, breath, and visualization.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Hung Gar was used for "Earthbending" in the series, and was chosen for its firmly rooted stances and powerful strikes to present the solid nature of earth.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 And Ba Gua, which uses dynamic circular movements and quick directional changes, was used for "Airbending".
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 The only exception to these styles is Toph, who can be seen practicing a Chu Gar Southern Praying Mantis style.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 When the show first was shown it was rated the best animated television series in its demographic; new episodes averaged 3.1 million viewers each.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 A one-hour special showing of "The Secret of the Fire Nation" which was shown on 15 September 2006, consisting of "The Serpent's Pass" and "The Drill", gathered an audience of 5.1 million viewers.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 According to the Nielsen Media Research, the special was the best performing cable television show airing in that week.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In 2007, Avatar was syndicated to more than 105 countries worldwide, and was one of Nickelodeon's top rated programs.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Its 19 July 2008 premiere averaged 5.6 million viewers, 95% more viewers than Nickelodeon had received in mid-July 2007.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Sozin's Comet also appeared on iTunes' top ten list of best-selling television episodes during that same week.
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 Sozin's Comets popularity affected online media as well; "Rise of the Phoenix King", a Nick.com online game based on Sozin's Comet, generated almost 815,000 game plays within three days.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Dark Horse Comics released an art book titled Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Art of the Animated Series, on 2 June 2010 which contains 184 pages of the original art and creation behind the Avatar animated series.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar'''s success has led to some promotional advertising with third-party companies, such as Burger King and Upper Deck Entertainment.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar-themed roller coasters at Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America and one formerly at Kings Island also appeared.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 During the show's runtime, Nickelodeon published two special issues of Nick Mag Presents dedicated entirely to the show.
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 Various members of the Avatar staff and cast appeared at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International convention, while Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko appeared with Martial Arts Consultant Sifu Kisu at the Pacific Media Expo on October 28, 2006.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar also has its own line of T-shirts, LEGO playsets, toys, a trading card game, a cine-manga, and three video games, as well as an MMO.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The Mattel-produced action figure toy line generated some controversy with its exclusion of any female characters.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Mattel came to release information stating that they have taken account of Katara's increased role within the program, and that she would be included in the figure assortment for a mid 2007 release.
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 The figure ultimately went unreleased, however, as the entire line was canceled before she could be produced.
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 Nickelodeon executives have since released optimistic plans for upcoming marketing strategies in regards to Avatar.
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 Nickelodeon President Cyma Zarghami openly stated his belief that the franchise "could become their Harry Potter".
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 The marketing plans are to be coincided with the release of the first live-action movie based on the series in 2010, which will be the first movie in a trilogy.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar: The Last Airbender, based on the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth, based on the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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 Avatar: The Last Airbender - Into the Inferno, based on the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Avatar: Legends of the Arena, a video game for Microsoft Windows, was launched on 25 September 2008 by Nickelodeon.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Each user is able to create their own character, choose a nation, and to interact with others across the globe.
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 The Last Airbender, which was released on 1 July 2010 (based on the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender)
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 The Last Airbender 2, which was set to be released in 2012 (based on the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender).
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 The Last Airbender 3, which was set to be released in 2014 (based on the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender).
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 A series based on Avatar: The Last Airbender is currently in development at Nickelodeon and due for release in 2011.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 Rumors Of New ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Animated Series Confirmed The show, tentatively titled Avatar: The Legend of Korra, will be a twelve-episode mini series that takes place in the same universe, 70 years after the defeat of Fire Lord Ozai.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The development period and release dates were announced at the annual Comic-Con in San Diego on 22 July 2010.
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 The series will focus on Korra, a teenage female protagonist and current incarnation of the Avatar, who, according to the president of Nickelodeon, will be "hotheaded, independent, and ready to take on the world".
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 The character was partly inspired by Avatar Kyoshi of the original series, whom the creators say was very popular among fans.
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 In order to avoid repetition of Aang's adventures, the creators wanted to root the show in one place, called Republic City.
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 A concept drawing of the city, released with the announcement of the series, shows the city's design as inspired by Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, Hong Kong, Manhattan, and Vancouver.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 In the show, Korra will have to learn Airbending from master Tenzin, son of Avatar Aang and Katara, and contend with an anti-bender revolution taking place in the city.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 While not targeting a different demographic than Avatar: The Last Airbender, Michael and Bryan have stated that the show won't cover more mature subject material necessarily, just different mature subjects, "It won't be another war, but a different sort of conflict."
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 The creators also explained that there would be some "cheesy teen romance" for the main character, Korra.
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
 At the 2010 Comic-Con, it was revealed that the creators will continue to work with Joaquim Dos Santos and Ryuki Hung on the animation and design of the show.
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 The creators also confirmed that they will directly write all twelve episodes, explaining that as a mini-series, episode fillers will be omitted, allowing for a "really tight" and "cool" story.
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 In late July, Jeremy Zuckerman, composer of the original series, was confirmed to be returning to score The Legend of Korra''.
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 Production and filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 16, 2021, and will last until May 2022.
Toul 
 When the Carolingian Empire was split by the Treaty of Meerssen, in 870, Toul was  given to East Francia.
Blessthefall 
 The lead vocalist, Craig Mabbitt leaves the band in November 2007, the bassist Jared Warth was lead vocalist/bassist, replacing the Mabbitt place touring.
Blessthefall 
 With Bokan, the band released the second studio album, Witness in October 6, 2009, with Fearless Records.
Amber 
 Baltic amber was called 'Freya's tears' by the Norse and the 'tears of the Heliades' by the ancient Greeks.
Amber 
 Amber consists of several resinous bodies that can mostly dissolve in alcohol, ether and chloroform, associated with a bituminous substance that does not dissolve.
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 Exposure to weather tends to disintegrate resin, assisted by microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi.
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 For resin to survive long enough to become amber, it must resist such forces, or be produced under conditions that exclude them.
Amber 
 Baltic amber (historically called Prussian amber) is found as irregular nodules in a marine sand, known as blue earth, in the Lower Oligocene strata of Sambia in Kaliningrad Oblast, where it is now systematically mined.
Amber 
 The resin can contain, in addition to the beautifully preserved plant-structures, remains of insects, spiders, annelids, frogs, crustaceans and other small organisms that became trapped while it was fluid.
Amber 
 In most cases the organic structure has disappeared, leaving only a cavity, with perhaps a trace of chitin.
Amber 
 Amber can be found on all continents of the earth, with exception of the pole regions, mainly at the east coast of the USA, Canada, Burma, Mexico, Lebanon, Borneo, Romania and Sicily and other places.
Amber 
 According to scientists, the oldest amber originates from the carbon time and has an age of approximately 345 million years (Upper Carboniferous, Northumberland, USA).
Amber 
 But most of these offer by far a smaller yield than amber found in the Baltic Region around the Baltic Sea.
Amber 
 Homer mentions it in his Odyssee, Book 15, 459-465, B.C.E.: “… a necklace of gold, with amber beads was it strung between…”.
Amber 
 Amber from the "New World" like Mexico and the Dominican Republic was commercially mined only since the last century.
Amber 
 The greatest amber-producing country is the promontory of Sambia, now part of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast.
Amber 
 About 90% of the world's extractable amber is in the Kaliningrad region of Russia on the Baltic Sea.
Amber 
 This amber was deposited in the late Eocene and early Oligocene in a delta of a prehistoric river, in a shallow part of a marine basin.
Amber 
 Small amounts of  Baltic amber can even be found outside the Baltic region, for example on the coastline of the south east of England.