I'd like to welcome Paige Rushbrook and Dimitar Zhelev to the Geography at About.com team! Paige and Dimitar are the spring semester 2012 geography interns and they'll be sharing their geographic thoughts with us over the next few months. Paige is an undergraduate geography student at King's College in London and her first article is Colonial Rule in Peru. Dimitar lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, is graduate student at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, and a geography teacher. Dimitar's first article is about toponyms and the naming of "new world" places by just adding "new" to an old world place name. Welcome aboard Paige and Dimitar!
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Every time, there is an advertising blok covering up part of the story, the north-east corner, so to speak. I cannot get rid of it, so I cannot read the story!
This pisses me off, makes me so mad, that I’m gonna delete anything About.com whatever without even trying to read it.
The bottom half of the story is OK, I can read it, but I can never read the whole thing’
Today’s irritating ads are for E-cigs, W Va moms, Happy New year and St. Albans. So I can cross thre more purchases off my list!
Let me know when you have fixed this damnable problem, and I’ll start reading it again.
Bill Nelson
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Are the interns on twitter? It would be nice to follow them and hear how their experience is going!
I’m @MrHolen
IT IS VERY PAINFUL TO READ THE ONE-SIDED NARRATIVE ON THE DARK DEEDS OF SPAIN IN PERU. THE WRITER HAD TO REFER TO A PUBLICATION OF 1981 TO SAY THE CATHOLIC AGONY. GOD’S DECREE IS CLEAR BEFORE THE WORLD. THE SHAMEFUL DEGRADATION OF SPAIN AND THE FRANTIC SEARCH OF THE OCEAN FLOOR TO LOCATE ANY SUNKEN SHIP WITH LOOTED WEALTH HAS BECOME THEIR FATE. WHEREAS, EVEN TODAY, THE GOOD PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE GATHER TO KNOW ABOUT THE MAYAN CIVILISATION OF THE INCA PEOPLE….SUBRATA MUKHERJI…..
The initiative to hire interns is a commendable one and I hope that the interns will learn a lot from this experience.Upon reading this maiden article of Ms. Rushbrook, it is disconcerting to learn that an undergraduate at Kings’ College believes that the past tense of “die” is “dyed”. There are several other glaring spelling errors which are too embarrassing to Ms. Rushbrook to mention but I trust that this is a learning experience for the said intern.
This sentence is particularly interesting: ” However, Incas did pass syphilis onto the Spanish in return.” In Ms.Rushbrook’s odd sentence construction by stating…”however”…..” in return”….. she seems to suggest that the Incas used syphilis as a defence mechanism or some form of biological vengeance exacted upon the Spanish by the Incas owing to the depopulation of the Incas from the spread of European diseases. This is an interesting historical interpretation suggested by Ms. Rushbrook’s turn of phrase.