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• Geography of the East and West Berlin and Remember the Berlin Walls Fall

  
  Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! — Authority: 469
  Map from Wikipedia Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The walls destruction did not unite East and West Germany it spelled the start of the end of the division and the Cold War. Berlin was a divided city between the end of World War II in 1945 and reunion in 1990. At first ...
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• War! What is it good for? Liberating the East and engendering domestic civil society of course

  
  ComingAnarchy.com — Authority: 574
  After my speechless commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was left speechless after reading Robert D. Kaplan’s Wall-related Dispatch from The Atlantic . Kaplan plays down the geographic symbolism of the Berlin Wall (an “artificial border”) and maintains his theme of geographic determinism ...
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• Top 10 Most Popular Hotels

  
  Britannica Blog — Authority: 479
  One of the world’s leading groups of independent hotels has announced the top ten most popular hotels in terms of visitor numbers to its website.   Here is the top ten hotel list from Worldhotels.com : 1. Hotel Metropolitan , Tokyo Hotel Metropolitan Tokyo (right), is located in the heart of the city and is ...
  14 hours ago

• Sixteen Option Spinner

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 127
  What it is: The Sixteen Option Spinner is another winner from Triptico.  This online spinner lets you customize it with sixteen options.  The spinner is random and removes the option once it has been landed on. How to integrate Sixteen Option Spinner into the classroom: The Sixteen Option Spinner is ...
  15 hours ago

• 025.431: The Dewey blog: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Planet Cataloging — Authority: 143
  The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on the night of November 9–10, 1989, has brought many news stories and reminiscences about the original event. The following sites all have multiple stories, though only one is cited here.  Deutsche Welle has “ November 9, 1989 - The Day That Changed ...
  21 hours ago

• FALL OF BERLIN WALL 20th ANNIVERSARY

  
  Think in English — Authority: 118
  The wall was built in 1961 and separated the city into two parts for more than 28 years. In the night of November 9th, 1989 people from East Berlin crossed into the western part of the city and celebrated the Fall of the Wall. Next day Berliners began to discover the other part of their city. The Wall was completly ...
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• Second-favorite city in the world

  
  The Daily Parker — Authority: 129
  Actually, London ties for second with New York and San Francisco. Here follow some reasons. First, Golden Square in the West End: (More after the jump.)
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• Fuzzy Geographies

  
  Europe Endless — Authority: 91
  The new map is more reminiscent of early modernity, of the trade and pilgrimage routes, of the links between holy cities and routes of world communication. Periphery and centre, far and near – everything is being re-positioned. Even the most recent scenes of coming clashes are marked on this map of the new Europe: ...
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• Globalization in Reverse?

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 429
  Finally, one of the topics of my Global Economics class is how trade can allow cultures to share. McDonalds is an oft-cited example. Just consider the fact that the Big Mac is considered a "universal commodity" as the basis for the Big Mac Index . But how many of these McDonalds products have made it to the ...
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• NASA Podcasts have Universal Appeal

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 127
  The excellent podcast repository at NASA contains a growing selection of audio-visual resources across a wide range of subject areas related to astronomy, earth sciences, and space exploration. Audio topics covered include the Solar system, recent NASA news, the Shuttle and International Space Station, NASA moments ...
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• Walk There! Guide for Portland Oregon

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 123
  Matthew Hampton of Portland Metros GIS team put me on to his beautiful fitness + pretty maps guide walks for Portland, Oregon at NACIS. Its a collaboration with Kaiser HMO and was awarded best of show at ESRIs 2009 User Conference. Check out the legend and download route maps. Or buy a copy from Powells Books.
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• Earth Surface Crack ‘Happened in Days’

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 127
  According to research undertaken by Atalay Ayele of Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia , a 500 metre long, 60 metre deep crack in the Earth’s surface in Afar, Ethiopia, opened in several days. The eruption of the Dabbahu volcano is believed to have widened a rift in the African and Arabian tectonic plates; as ...
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• In transit

  
  The Daily Parker — Authority: 129
  Ive stopped in London for a day and a half to get my bearings and ease the transitionback to real life. Also because it was less expensive than changing my return flightto the U.S. or staying one more night in Dubai. Some observations: This isnt your granddads British Airways .The flight from Dubai landed early, ...
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• The Fall of the Berlin Wall: It Was 20 Years Ago Today

  
  Britannica Blog — Authority: 479
  On November 9, 1989, in an event that is being widely celebrated today, the Berlin Wall fell. The wall, at first thin and low enough to hop over, later formidable, had gone up in the dark of an August night 28 years earlier. It was ostensibly built to protect the people of East Berlin from an invasion ...
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• Babies Cry in Accents?

  
  Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! — Authority: 469
  According to scientists, babies cry with accents . The claim is that French babies cries end higher while German babies cries end at a lower tone. If factual, a global study is needed, then it proves that learning language is a process that begins before birth. Catholicgauze would like to know if other cultural ...
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• Inside the battle to save Earths climate

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  Climate scientist Stephen H. Schneider could easily say "I told you so," now that data pour in on an almost daily basis to prove what he has been warning about for many years: Greenhouses gases we are pumping into the atmosphere are disrupting Earths climate, threatening our way of life, if not our survival. ...
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• Jordanian Professor: Israel Will Go to War over Water

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 425
  Israel will wage war against Egypt within seven years in order to control the Nile River. First war of Israel over water will be in Shebaa farms area.Related posts: Official: Israel prevents 15 medicine-laden trucks into Gaza World recoils at Gaza bloodshed, US backs Israel Gaza faces failed harvests after the ...
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• Padlocked By The Earth: Cycle Sheds Go Underground

  
  WebEcoist — Authority: 617
  (Images via: JFE Engineering ) Cycling is a wonderfully practical, dazzlingly green answer to our urban transport problems (not to mention a fun, free way to keep us trim) – but a downside is parking. Maybe a parked bike doesn’t take up a lot of room, but in most cities you find every fence and every railing ...
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• The Falls of St. Anthony

  
  TYWKIWDBI — Authority: 608
  The waterfalls (Dakota " haha ") shown here are the reason the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are situated where they are. In the mid-nineteenth century these falls set an upper limit to the navigation of the Mississippi River by craft larger than canoes. The portage site became a focal area for trade and ...
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• Yucatan biodiversity assessed by photography expedition

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  Photos released at the opening of the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) in Merida, Mexico, this weekend highlight the diversity and threats to conservation in the Yucatán Peninsula. Off the north coast of the Yucatán Peninsula by the island of Holbox, a whale shark ( Rhincodon typus ) is surrounded by ...
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