Largest City and Capital: Dublin (pop 553,165) Area: 84,421 km2 20th Coastline: 2,797km Highest Elevation (Carrauntoohil): 1,041m (3,415') Population:…
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first…
SHIPPING & GREENHOUSE GASES Nov 1st 2018 Economist Shipping is a dirty business. Since the late 19th century, when steam replaced…
Nov 8th 2018 Economist Diva Amon, a researcher at the Natural History Museum in London, spotted her first whale skull…
REVIVAL OF PORTUGUESE Nov 8th 2018 ECONOMIST These days Manuel Machado has a spring in his step. The school of which…
FORCED LABOUR IN COTTON HARVEST Nov 8 2018 ECONOMIST In some ways, there is nothing surprising about the videos that…
Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to…
TANA TORAJA is an area best known for its peculiar fascination with the dead. Life for the Torajans revolves around…
The Flanders area of Western Wallonian is full of WWII war cemeteries. The Allied cemeteries are common and full of…
This Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral (St. Mungo's Cathedral). Fifty thousand…