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In ancient Greece, violent internal conflict between border neighbors and war with foreign invaders was a way of life, and Greeks were considered premier warriors. Sparta, specifically, had a
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In which John Green teaches you about how Islam has interacted with politics during it's history, and how it continues to do so today. Islamist movement
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azan times for worldwide prayers for mobile phones free download - Athan (Azan) Basic, Muslim Pro - Prayer Times, Azan, Quran, Qibla compass & Hijri / Islamic calendar ( - - ), Cell Phone Manager, and many more programs
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Flyover Country uses maps and data from various geological and paleontological databases to identify and give information on the landscape passing beneath a plane. The user will see features tagged on a map corresponding to the ground below. To explain the features in depth, the app relies on cached Wikipedia articles. Since it works solely with a phone’s GPS, there’s no need for a user to purchase in-flight wifi. Sitting in your window seat, you can peer down on natural features like glaciers and man-made features, such as mines, and read articles about them at the same time.
Tags: mobility, transportation, technology, physical, geology.
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「紙垂」「しで」 かつては麻（あさ）で穢（けがれ）を祓い清めていたようですが、 のちに楮（こうぞ：クワ科の落葉低木。 樹皮の繊維は日本紙の原料となる）から作った木綿（ゆう：楮から採った糸）や、 和紙（楮から作った紙）を用いるようになって、 後世になると、この紙を榊の枝に付けて清浄の証としたようです。 この紙が、今...
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In the early 20th century, the Chinese faced draconian immigration rules. But owners of a few types of businesses could get special visas. In 1915, restaurants got on that list. The rest is history.
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From red to green to indigo, each color provides festival-goers with a sense of beauty, ritual and tradition
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A raised garden fertilized by kitchen waste and designed to thrive even in difficult conditions has changed the life of Agnes, a mother in northeastern Uganda who is benefitting from a Concern initiative launched last year.
Via GTANSW & ACT
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“ A recently released United Nations report found some countries may lose half of their population by 2100.”
Via Andy Dorn
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Recently, I shared the best STEM / STEAM YouTube channels. Now let's look at the best geography and history YouTube channels for elementary kids, ages 5 - 11.
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Poverty in America is concentrated in counties, regions, urban neighborhoods and reservations. Matt Black and Trymaine Lee document its current state.
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"Yes, globalization. For many people, that word conjures up, at best, images of container ships moving manufactured goods from far-flung factories. At worst, it harkens back to acrid debates about trade deficits, currency wars and jobs moving to China. In fact, since the Great Recession of 2008, the global flow of goods and services has flattened, and cross-border capital flows have declined sharply. But globalization overall isn't on the wane. Like so much in our world today, it has reinvented itself by going digital."
Tags: technology, globalization, diffusion, industry, economic.
Alisha Meyer's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 9:04 AM
Our world is changing, that is inevitable. It's how we decide to use the technology and knowledge we now have to better ourselves or destroy ourselves.
Kelsey McIntosh's curator insight,
January 18, 2018 7:46 PM
This chart is pretty straight forward, yet it clearly lays out the difference between 20th and 21st century Globalization patterns. Through modern invention and progress in technology the world has become a place where connections can be created at the speed of light. Through technology, the world no longer has to wait for the physical movement of goods and ideas, at the touch of a button information can be in anyone's hands 
Nicole Canova's curator insight,
May 1, 2018 10:48 PM
Globalization is a process that has been occurring for centuries. However, modern technology is making globalization faster than ever, and has enabled globalization to shift to a more information- and knowledge-based exchange rather than ever as well thanks to the Internet.
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Lexile leveled current events, lesson plans, quizzes, assessments
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"Follow America's favorite vegetable from field to factory — to see how potatoes grow and how they're turned into chips."
Clairelouise's insight:
This 5 minute video is a good introduction to the potato, it's hearth, diffusion, population impacts, nutritional profile and industrial production. The geography of food goes far beyond the kitchen and there are more episodes in the "How Does it Grow?" series to show that.
Tags: food, economic, food production, agribusiness, industry, video, agriculture.
Sophie Wilson's curator insight,
August 31, 2016 10:33 AM
This video shows the process of potatoes moving from farm to factory in America and how they are turned into chips. It shows how the potatoes are planted, grown and turned into chips.
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Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! Visit http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set to buy a se
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You don't have to install software just to fill in or edit a PDF. We have compiled online solutions you can turn to for all your PDF editing needs. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
March 14, 2016 3:38 AM
Useful list of social media tools for online editing of PDF Docs.
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As part of the Yiddish Book Center Wexler Oral History Project, Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan hand signal used by Spock, his character in the “Star Trek” series.
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"Mormons are the most heavily Republican-leaning religious group in the U.S., while a pair of major historically black Protestant denominations – the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the National Baptist Convention – are two of the most reliably Democratic groups, according to data from Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study."
Clairelouise's insight:
Happy Super Tuesday. While there are people of all political stripes within any given religious affiliation, the geography of religion really matters in electoral geography as well.
Tags: religion, USA, electoral, political.
Ariel Juarez's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 12:38 PM
Happy Super Tuesday. While there are people of all political stripes within any given religious affiliation, the geography of religion really matters in electoral geography as well.
Tags: religion, USA, electoral, political. 
Dewayne Goad's curator insight,
March 9, 2016 9:40 AM
Happy Super Tuesday. While there are people of all political stripes within any given religious affiliation, the geography of religion really matters in electoral geography as well.
Tags: religion, USA, electoral, political.
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V-Dem: Global Standards, Local Knowledge Varieties of Democracy aims to produce better Indicators of Democracy. We are a team of fifteen social scientists on three continents.
Clairelouise's insight:
"V-Dem provides the most comprehensive global dataset on democracy: 400+ indicators and indices on a variety of important aspects of democracy! The data cover 173 countries."
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A new study shows that the stuff we consume -- from food to knick-knacks -- is responsible for up to 60 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Via Andy Dorn
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“ Interactive maps developed by news portals and other online publishers”
Via Fernando Gil
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“America's diversity captured in photos of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island”
Via Seth Dixon
Kristen McDaniel's curator insight,
October 30, 2015 9:54 AM
Great set of photos taken on Ellis Island, of immigrants in homeland dress. 
Benjamin Jackson's curator insight,
November 9, 2015 2:56 PM
It's fascinating the diverse places which people came from when entering the US through Ellis Island. I think its pretty odd that someone from the Caribbean region would enter the US through NYC. The diversity demonstrated by these pictures is also impressive, considering that four continents are represented.
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Eric Weiner, author of the new book "The Geography of Genius," talks with Kara Swisher about how where we live can make us smarter and more innovative. From Mozart to Steve Jobs, he argues, lightning does not strike randomly.
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