Some buildings and features are so well known they have become icons of place.
This is a great collection of important world landmarks including the pictured Potala Palace in the Tibetan city of Lhasa. Who wouldn’t like to see some of these places?
Tags: geo-inspiration, tourism, images.
See on matadornetwork.com
See how much voter groups have shifted in the 2012 exit polls, compared to 2008. Early numbers are preliminary and may change significantly until midday Wednesday, when poll results are finalized.
The 2012 election mostly went as predicted (given Virginia and Florida’s voting pattern, I’d invite you to re-think the “Where Does the South Begin” or at least to contextualize the political and cultural implications for the defining the vernacular region of “the South”). I’m sure we’ve all seen the electoral college map, but this great graphic shows the demographic groups voting patterns that produced that map.
See on www.washingtonpost.com
PRE-ELECTION: Live election results from The Huffington Post. Romney vs. Obama, Senate, House and ballot measures.
This is one of many election maps that I am continually refreshing. When I lived in California I would always try to stay up for the results–now that I’m on the East Coast I don’t think that is going to happen tonight.
See on elections.huffingtonpost.com. Click on each state for county level analysis.
POST ELECTION:
Roads? Religion? Accent? Food? Which factor dictates where the North ends?
This is a great intellectual expercise to help student think about regions and how we define them. The article can help also inform some of their thinking since one of the main problems for students in drawing regional boundaries is lack of place-based knowledge.
See on www.theatlantic.com
Brown University’s Choices Program has many excellent resources for social studies teachers including “Teaching with the News.” Many teachers are seeing the importance of Syria, but might lack the regional expertise to put it in context or to the time to link it with the curriculum. If that is the case (and even if it is not), this is the perfect place to find lesson plans on the ongoing Syrian conflict.
Tags: political, MiddleEast, conflict, war.
See on www.choices.edu
Topography and elevation matters. We can dry to make water dry ground (and vice versa), but not without future consequences.
See on www.manhattanpast.com
This is a great gallery of clever artwork that puts the “art” in cartography (The Earth without art is just “eh).
See on www.brainpickings.org
Listed here are the top choices for election maps for keeping an eye on election results and twitter maps.
Just a friendly reminder to vote tomorrow for those of you in the United States.
See on gislounge.com
Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found.
This is a great map to show the historical impact of colonialism on the world map. The map is based on the work in the new book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To.
Tags: book reviews, colonialism, war, historical, UK.
See on www.telegraph.co.uk
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