National Geography Bee: Test Your World Knowledge

Source: NPR

The final round of the 2012 National Geographic Bee takes place Thursday, with students between the fourth and eighth grades testing their knowledge of countries, canals, and lava lakes. Of the 54 contestants who came to t ...
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Research and Markets: Visualizing Physical Geography, 2nd Edition

Source: Business Wire

“sections at the end of each chapter, address the key concepts used within the chapter and force students to apply geographic concepts.” Visualizing Physical Geography employs uniquely designed visual pedgagogy to help stude ...
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Jazz Stories: Hi, my name is Amar. I’m a Jazz fan.

Source: SB Nation

Sadly, this is a statement that so many people contest. You know, like there’s such a huge bandwagon of South Asian origin, Canadian born, immigrant Jazz fans who live in Detroit. That are Hindu. And loyally fo ...
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Joel D. Hirst: The Aloneness of Social Media

Source: The Huffington Post

Our world has become more social. We are more than ever an interconnected species; existing in new digitally urbanized neighborhoods that transcend physical geography. Our communities consist now not of our neighbors ...
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Film brings Entebbe hero to life

Source: Jerusalem Post

NEW YORK—Yoni Netanyahu helped saved 102 Israeli hostages on a dark July 4 at Entebbe. Though mortally wounded, his spirit and leadership imbued his troops as they stormed the “Old Terminal” at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Netanyahu was admired but not po ...
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