It is said that a picture is a worth a thousand words. A picture can also be worth a geography lessonn, depending on what one looks at. The photo below: Guntersville Lake, and Guntersville, AL. That photo, taken from an airplane, can be said to have some picturesque value. A geography lesson can be gained…
Month: December 2019
St. Paul and Minneapolis: A Tale Of Fraternal Twin Cities.
Did you know that the University of Minnesota straddles TWO cities? University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is located in BOTH Saint Paul and Minneapolis. This is mentioned for a different reason. Minneapolis and St. Paul. Together, they are known as the Twin Cities. However, they are not identical twins. Both cities are more like fraternal twins….
Apollo 11: Geography Lessson.
July 20, 1969. Over 50 years ago, 2 men, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, embarked on the Apollo 11, a spaceflight that would take the first human beings to the moon. Apollo 11 was launched by the Saturn V rocket. The NASA Kennedy Space Center was its launching center. Space rocket launches are…
America’s Newest National Park, 2019.
There are 62 national parks throughout the United States of American. In December 2019, the USA gained a new national park. The National Park Service now has White Sands White Sands National Park as the 62nd national park. Location of White Sands National Park: Southeastern New Mexico. The closest cities to White Sands National Park…
Kiritimati/Christmas Island.
Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island, gets its name for the day explorer James Cook visited it, Christmas Eve, December 24, 1777. Kiritimati is the Gilbertese translation of Christmas, the language spoken in the Republic of Kiribati. Kiritimati is part of the Republic of Kiribati (Kirtibati has been independent since 1979, a member of the…
Christmas In A Geographic Perspective
Merry Christmas to those reading this. Merry Christmas!! Christmas is an important day for Christians all over the world. Christmas is about celebrating and commemorating the birth of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The holiday is about Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem today is a city of 25,266 people. It…
Rocket City’s Geographic Source.
The Rocket City. This is a positive nod to the space industry that has made this northern Alabama city famous. NASA has a presence in the city of Huntsville, AL. Florida isn’t the only place where NASA has a large presence. However, there is more to Huntsville than just the space industry. To understand…
Geography And Baseball: Cleveland’s Declining Attendance
In 1989, the movie Major League came out. It was about an at-the-time horrible Cleveland Indians. Between 1960 and 1993, the Cleveland Indians managed only 6 seasons about the .500 mark (1965, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1986), and 1965 was the best they would do (87-75) for the balance of that time period. During the…
A Creek Springs Eternal: Spring Creeks
Poet Alexander Pope wrote “Hope springs eternal in the human breast, man never is, but always to be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home. Rests and expatiates in a life to come”. This can be applied to a particular geographic feature. And to paraphrase Alexander Pope: A creek springs eternal from a…
Romania Day 101, A Lesson Of Historical Geography.
1 Decembrie. December 1. Ziua Naţională a României. National Day of Romania. The Great Union Day. December 1st is National Romania Day, and it marks the day when Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania were brought together and united wih the Kingdom of Romania. December 1, 1918 marks the day that this took place. To understand this,…
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