Target Riles Group Over Palestine on Globe
Sunday January 31, 2010
Target Stores, which sold a small decorative novelty globe for one dollar, came under fire for selling a globe that labeled Israel as Palestine. The New York Times has ... Read More
New Geography Quiz
Sunday January 31, 2010
Test your geographical skills and talents with my latest geography quiz! It's fifteen multiple-choice questions that are sure to amuse and delight you! Good luck!
Beijing to Relax One Child Policy
Thursday January 28, 2010
Beijing is planning to relax the delay on couples who themselves are only children between their children. Currently, there is a waiting period of four years between children under ... Read More
Israel Joins UN Bloc
Wednesday January 27, 2010
Israel has joined the United Nations Human Rights Council's JUSCANZ block. JUSCANZ stands for the non-EU democracies of Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand but also ... Read More
Fifty Equal States
Wednesday January 27, 2010
The Map Room blog presents a new addition to the ever-growing list of ways to divide the United States with fifty states of equal population. Interesting!
Previous suggestions include The ... Read More
Worst Disasters
Wednesday January 20, 2010
The Map Room blog covers the disasters of 2009, as reported by the reinsurance company Munich Re. Check out the interesting map!
Update: I also want to draw your attention ... Read More
Expanding Haiti's Air Traffic Capabilities
Wednesday January 20, 2010
Yesterday, the United States military announced that a new runway has been built and is being opened today near the city of Jacmel, Haiti about 30 miles southwest of the ... Read More
United Nations and Counties at newgeography
Wednesday January 20, 2010
The blog newgeography has two great recent article that I wanted to draw your attention to. The first suggests that the United Nations move from New York to the ... Read More
Texas Donations Below Average
Friday January 15, 2010
The organization mGive, which is supporting the ability of the American Red Cross to collect donations through text messages for Haiti earthquake relief (and I encourage you to donate $10 ... Read More
Work Underway on First Master-Planned Palestinian City
Wednesday January 13, 2010
Ground was broken on the master-planed American-style community of Rawabi in the West Bank last week. The community, with curvilinear streets, is expected to house about 40,000 people once ... Read More
Haiti Suffers Devastating Earthquake
Wednesday January 13, 2010
Haiti, located at the boundary of the Caribbean and the North American tectonic plates, suffered a major magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:53:09 p.m. local time. ... Read More
Words on Flags
Saturday January 9, 2010
Catholicgauze has a great post on his blog, cataloging national flags that contain text on the flag. He includes countries from Brazil ("Order and Progress") to Iran and Iraq ... Read More
The 14 Countries Not to Be From
Monday January 4, 2010
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced that travelers with passports from fourteen countries will be super-duper-screened before boarding an airplane to the United States. This is apparently an effort ... Read More
The World's New Tallest Building
Monday January 4, 2010
The world's newest tallest building in the world opened today in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The 2,716 feet (828 meters) tall Burj Khalifa building is a mix of commercial, ... Read More
Latest Articles
Saturday January 2, 2010
I'd like to point out several new articles from Contributing Writer Amanda Briney that have been posted in the past week or so...
The Bering Land Bridge
The Arctic Region
Geography of Oceania
The ... Read More
Is Russia's Population Growing?
Saturday January 2, 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was pleased to announce that for the first time since 1995, Russia's total population saw a net increase. The Russian population grew about 20,000 ... Read More