July 21, 2014 0 A Letter-Writing Campaign The Welsh county of Carmarthenshire is home to about 180,000 people spread across about 2,400 km^2. At a [...]
July 18, 2014 0 The Fatberg The community of Kingston is in southwest London, next to the River Thames. It’s a relatively well-off [...]
July 17, 2014 0 Vote Early, Vote Often Heydar Aliyev was a former KGB member and leader of Azerbaijan when it was part of the Soviet Union, yet [...]
July 16, 2014 0 Mudhattan Pictured above is a city, which, except for the surroundings — empty plains followed by plateaus [...]
July 15, 2014 0 Cat Islands Japan’s Aoshima Island is tiny: only about 44,000 meters^2 (that’s about 0.017 square miles) in total [...]
July 14, 2014 0 Smile of the Century :-) That’s a colon, a dash, and then a closing parenthesis. Grammatically, it’s nonsense. But you [...]
July 11, 2014 0 Around the Horn Let’s talk about the Cold War. We’ll start with a couple of pictures. That’s a Northrop [...]
July 10, 2014 0 You Better Not Shout, I’m Telling You Why Micronesia is a collection of thousands of islands and atolls in the Pacific. Many of the islands are [...]
July 9, 2014 0 Max the Knife When it comes to hamburgers, McDonald’s reigns supreme throughout the world. You’d be hard-pressed [...]
July 8, 2014 0 The Human Seat Warmers In many cases, the people hanging around in the background on television and movies — never saying [...]