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Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geography. Show all posts

Friday, October 19, 2007

GlobalIncidentMap.com - Displaying Terrorism News from around the world

There is this website called GlobalIncidentMap.com (link) that seeks to make it easy for you in case you want to get a view of terrorist incidents, breaking news and suspicious acts all over the world.
What does the website describe as its goal?
Is every incident on this map connected to terrorism? We don't know - we include any incident or event that we think may have a connection to terrorism, which includes things like bomb or anthrax hoaxes - because we feel that not only can we learn from hoaxes but because we believe a small number of them may be 'dry runs'. We may also include links to items which are of significant concern, such as a major disease outbreak, even if we feel it has no connection to terrorism. We include known terrorist acts, suspected terrorist acts, other events which we deem suspicious or otherwise potentially threatening to the public, including non-terror incidents such as accidental chemical plant explosions. We include items WE think are suspicious, you may feel differently, we suggest reviewing each item individually and arriving at your own conclusion.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Millau Viaduct - the tallest vehicular bridge in the world

I got an email with the heading of the 'tallest bridge in the world' and the attached presentation was very interesting. I then did a further search in Wikipedia, and found this entry.
Some brief highlights:
The Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau) is a large cable-stayed road-bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France, it is the tallest vehicular bridge in the world, with one mast's summit at 343 metres (1,125 ft) — slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower and only 38 m (125 ft) shorter than the Empire State Building. It was formally dedicated on 14 December 2004 and opened to traffic two days later.
The bridge’s construction broke three world records:
* The highest pylons in the world: pylons P2 and P3, 244.96 and 221.05 metres in height respectively, broke the French record previously held by the Tulle and Verrières Viaducts (141 m), and the world record previously held by the Kochertal Viaduct (Germany), which is 181 metres at its highest;
* The highest mast in the world: the mast atop pylon P2 peaks at 343 m.
* The highest road bridge deck in the world, 270 m above the Tarn River at its highest point. It is nearly twice as tall as the previous tallest vehicular bridge in Europe, the Europabrücke in Austria. It is slightly higher than the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia in the United States, which is 267 m above the New River. Only the bridge deck of the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado, United States (mainly a pedestrian bridge over the Arkansas River, occasionally also used by motor vehicles) is higher with 321 m, and is considered the highest bridge in the world.

Millau Viaduct - the tallest vehicular bridge in the world

Friday, October 5, 2007

Want to learn more about Israel ?

If you want to learn more about modern Israel, including geography, culture, then you should see the virtual tour of Israel located at this URL.
Click on "virtual tour" in the top left hand corner of this site, and it
will take you to a page with a map of Israel. You and your curious explorers
may click on Northern Tour, Central Tour etc and then that part of the map
is highlighted and drop down menu appears for you to see specific locales
from that region--the viewing of a locale is a complete 360 degree pan, so
you really get a sense of actually the whole area, like you were standing
there!
Developed by the ministry of tourism for Israel, it really is a topnotch way
for your young geographers to get a visual sense of Israel, alongside a map
so they have a real sense of where they are.