Elderly Fail to Yield According to this news report, the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety published a study that says older drivers tend to have collisions due to failures to yield at intersections. They pull out at inappropriate times and are struck by oncoming vehicles. Other age groups are prey to different types of …
Category Archives: World Events
Gregorian Calendar
Here are some history and details about the Gregorian Calendar, brought to you by Matt Rosenberg, friendly neighborhood provider of weekly emails concerning geography. The most interesting thing (to me) in this article is that it took 170 years to propagate the calendar change throughout all of “western” Europe. That’s a long time for neighboring …
Winter Solstice
At 00:22 GMT on December 22nd, the world will celebrate once more its free annual trip around the sun. This equates to 18:22 (6:22 PM EDT) 19:22 (7:22 PM EST) December 21st for those of us sitting on the east coast of the United States. To commemorate this occasion, and its companion solstice during the …
More Google Sightseening
Here is a Google Maps image of a cruise ship that capsized due to a typhoon. Wow…
Asia -> Spain: Holy Crap that's a long way!
I’ve been hearing a lot of press recently about the Canary Isands being the port of harbor for African illegal immigration to Europe. The geography makes good sense. The Canaries are only 150 miles (give or take) off of Morocco. Not entirely dissimilar to the Cuban and Haitian boat refugees trying for Florida. However, this …
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