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"Did you hear about the Five Pillars of British Landscaping Empire during your religion classes? To sort them by order of importance within the Holy Book of Grass: First is Grass. Second is pasture grass (this one comes with fences). Third is leisure grass. Forth is golf grass. Fifth is: you never have enough flowers & cute little benches on your grass." Via Seth Dixon
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"Giant 70-foot concrete arrows that point your way across the country, left behind by a forgotten age of US mail delivery. Long before the days of radio (and those convenient little smartphone applications), the US Postal service began a cross-country air mail service using army war surplus planes from World War I. The federal government funded enormous concrete arrows to be built every 10 miles or so along established airmail routes they were each built alongside a 50 foot tall tower with a rotating gas-powered light. These airway beacons are said to have been visible from a distance of 10 miles high." Via mrhill 
Giovanni Sonego's curator insight,
December 15, 2013 1:49 PM
Adesso sembra incredibile che si usasse un sistema simile per guidare la posta aerea. Forse a quei tempi sembrava normale. 
Steven Flis's curator insight,
December 16, 2013 3:14 AM
I love articles like this one where they talk about the collide of different times. This article speaks of huge concrete arrows which were left from 1930's air mail routes. sadly most of the towers that were paired with the arrows have been dismantled but still really cool that these directional arrows from the past can still be found almost 90 years later. 
Elle Reagan's curator insight,
September 28, 2014 11:44 PM
Wow technology has come a long way in just a short amount of time! We would still be using those stone arrows if it wasn't for the invention of the GPS.
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The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires devastated the city, but old San Francisco remains in photographs and video. This video lets you travel down Market Street as it looked before the earthquake hit. Via Mathijs Booden
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The recent announcement that China’s one-child policy will be partially relaxed will be celebrated worldwide by libertarians, human rights activists and, most importantly, Chinese couples who have longed…... Via dilaycock
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Mirror.co.uk Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Today we're thankful for tribal peoples' contributions to the world. Please retweet if you agree! http://t.co/QzONIT42W5 Via Mr. David Burton 
Benny Haoxiang Liang's curator insight,
December 11, 2013 10:24 PM
So how does .1% of the population of the world manage to be the origin for 16% of the worlds languages? I believe the absence of communications between other peoples is the cause of this. And without the trade relationships associated with the lack of communications, people become much more likely to sustain themselves by native plants, instead of the above mentioned mass produced 12 plants that the world relies on. It is a pity though, that with the modern methods of production, that natural forested lands that were the birthplaces of the discoveries of aspirin and rubber, are now being replaced by roads and cornfields.
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"The French have a wonderful word—flâneur—for someone who seeks to explore and understand the nature of a city’s landscape, usually by taking spontaneous adventures amidst the ebb and flow of life going on around them. In this week’s theme we invite you to lose yourself reading about the flâneur-esque adventures of Maptia’s streetwise connoisseurs and explore a myriad of cities through their eyes." 
Tony Aguilar's curator insight,
December 1, 2013 12:29 AM
This article demonstrates that there are so many places around the world yet to visit and it is important to plan and save as soon as possible becuase seeing all the beautiful cities of the world ma ytake several years, so preperation in is a must, From Cities in Asia, to Paris, London, Russia and Turkey you will be able to travel on festive dates and examine the landscapes that define these beautiful metropolises. From Cathedrals, to Big Ben, and Haggia Sophia in Instanbul, one will be marveled by the multicutural beauty and night life that exists around the world 
Helen Rowling's curator insight,
December 1, 2013 8:18 PM
Gr8 immersion of stories of lives in other countries. 
Tony Gough's curator insight,
December 9, 2013 6:09 AM
Travel the world and read the short stories to learn more!
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Students prepare a news report that highlights problems facing coastal communities and how climate change might affect coastal populations. Via dilaycock 
dilaycock's curator insight,
December 1, 2013 9:10 PM
Activity could be used in regard to the study of coasts, population, and climate change. 
Heather Ramsey's curator insight,
December 2, 2013 1:02 PM
This lesson is written for Grades 3-5, but could be adapted for middle or high school students as well. If done correctly, it would make a great inquiry lesson.
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Lake BAIKAL ICE live sound. Unbeliveable! Real video from IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT». We playing on frozen water of deepest and oldest Lake ...
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Nasa is planning to grow plants on the Moon for the first time by sending basil, turnip and cress seeds on a mission that will land on the lunar surface
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Why people are really bad at picking passwords and what you can do to make your super-secret phrases harder to guess.
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Караганды Жарык в Михайловке переулок Проектный |
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With China's population likely to start declining after 2020, expect to see changes in the one-child policy Via dilaycock
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The Internet has forced two changes onto the English language recently, including turning "because" into a preposition Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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On the evening of Nov. 23, 1963, at the end of Lyndon Johnson's first full day as president, my mother and father stood in his living room talking to his daughter Luci. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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The Chinese government plans to move 250 million people from farms to cities over the next 12 to 15 years. Via dilaycock 
Tom Tyndall's curator insight,
April 19, 2014 2:48 AM
Internal Migration within China is a feature of their growth.
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"A comprehensive listing of world capital cities that have moved from one city to another." 
Victoria McNamara's curator insight,
December 11, 2013 11:39 PM
Over the years countries have moved their major capitols from one area of their country to another. They move their capitol cities to try to please the people and reform. By moving the capitol cities it causes more growth and development which can lead to the area being more populated.
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Nearly 9 million people were mobilized to serve in Britain’s military during World War I. By the time photographer Giles Price started seeking veterans of the war in 2005, there were just 23 left. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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MAP OF THE WORLD. If you visualized one, you were probably thinking of a huge lie. Via Allison Anthony
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Each square kilometre of Australian sea surface water is contaminated by around 4,000 pieces of tiny plastics, according to our study published today in journal PLOS ONE and data repository Figshare… Via dilaycock
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December 1, 2013 9:04 PM
We tend to think of plastic pollution as being in the form of bottles, plastic bags etc., but this article highlights the dangers of "tiny plastic" pollution.
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In an era when the United States has been focused on new forms of conflict, the dangerous contest suddenly erupting in the East China Sea seems almost like a throwback to the Cold War.
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Seth Dixon's curator insight,
December 2, 2013 3:36 PM
Pulchritude might mean beautiful, but the way the word sounds in the English language is anything but. The word puissant might mean tough and strong, but it sounds, well....never mind. Some of these "unusable" words are lessons in cultural interactions and connotations that go beyond the simple dictionary definition.
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It turns seahorses are one of the deadliest, stealthiest predators in the sea.
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Exuma, a district in the Bahamas is stunningly beautiful. It consists of almost four hundred small islands, positioned languidly along 250 miles of the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba. Many of the islands are uninhabited. Yet one of them, Big Major Cay has a population that might surprise you. There are pigs on the island and when they are not doing their best impression of beach bums they take to the water. These are the swimming pigs of the Bahamas. |
I've written in the past about the aesthetics of the an ideal British landscape (as embodied in the anthem Jerusalem). The British ideal was to tame nature; the Canadians on the other hand, embraced the wildness of the natural landscape. Those difference normative views of landscape helped to shape national identity and inform land use decision-making processes.