BOOK REVIEW: The Oldale Curiosity Shop

“Who, or Why, or Which, or What: A Global Gazetteer of the Instructive and Strange” by John Oldale – London and New-York, Particular Books (Penguin Group), 2011 The classic gazetteer is a numbing compilation of places: their names, their coordinates in an attendant...

Why does CNN say the Great Lakes are part of USA?

Toronto, CANADA - It appears the weatherman, Rob Marciano of CNN was saying and showing that the "Northern United States" takes in much more space than is USA territory. Maybe they should just concentrate on doing...

Whatever happened to old Zealand?

New Zealand is in the news with the earthquake and all. As everyone knows, it is an island nation in the Southern Hemisphere, a sister to neighboring Australia. From anything I know, it has geography similar to...

Video: Entrance to a 'Hidden Fortress' on Dover's Western Heights

The 'North Entrance' on Dover's Western Heights consists of a blocked-off road tunnel and the skeletal remains of two single-lane bridges. Hardly the stuff, one might think, to be worth risking life and limb for...

One-Room School Offers Valuable Lessons

Few can argue about the need to improve the nation’s public education system. Unfortunately, those in charge of making those improvements -- notably, President Barack Obama and members of the...

The Godiva Syndrome - psychic sump discovered

The phrase 'sent to Coventry' describes the action taken against someone when a group decides to shun and not talk to an individual that was part of their cultural group. Psychic researchers have now described a...

Sarah Palin hopes God will 'show her the door' to the White House

"Barack Obama hasn't even been inaugurated as president and Sarah Palin is already weighing up her chances of running against him in four years time.In what Fox News is billing as Palin's first post-election...

A Geography of Cancer

A long article that gives us a 'geography of cancer' - that one word 'cancer' is used to describe many different diseases with similarities in that they all include abnormal growth of cells. Here we get a run...

Geography of Women - [Funny]

Between the ages of 35 -40 a woman is like France. She is half destroyed after the war but still desirable........click to read more.

Google maps 'demolish British history'

Internet maps such as those made by Google ae demolishing British history by effectively not including historic monuments, battlefields etc on them according to super map maker Mary Spence. Traditional cartography...

Breast-Formation Clouds Appear in Hertfordshire,UK

Clouds in the scientific formation Mammatus - Latin for "boob-like"- have appeared in St. Albans, Herts.  St. Albans is a popular site for pilgrims...although not for the clouds (until now...) ...

Muslim Headscarves Test the Limits of German Tolerance

"For years, Germany's legal experts have been arguing about whether Muslim public officials have the right to wear headscarves. The issue raises difficult questions about religious tolerance and constitutional...

The geography of power - how communication has become a global currency and w...

A fascinating article appeared in a recent edition of Newsweek called Emotional Connections. The article describes an installation at the New York Museum of Modern Art called New York Talk Exchange. Here,...

Reuters: Ooops, I did it again!

Reuters demonstrates its knowledge of geography:""

Canada : Global warming may reduce cod stocks to Arctic

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though Global warming may contribute to declining Cod Stocks, Over fishing from other countries who enter Canadian waters while Canadian fisherman watch...

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