The Peirce quincuncial projection is a conformal map projection that presents the sphere as a square. In this photograph found on Flikr, the technique presents a spherical...
Chicago – 100 ...
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100 Places to Remember > Chicago USA ■ The Windy City has been the Midwest’s centre of transportation, industry, finance, and entertainment ever since it was founded in the 1830s on the south-eastern shore of...
Recife – 100 P...
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100 Places to Remember > Recife Brazil ■ This commercial centre of north-eastern Brazil is also a prime destination for tourists thanks to its pleasant weather and 187 kilometres of white beaches. Located close to...
Caribbean Sea – 100 ...
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100 Places to Remember > Caribbean Sea Caribbean Sea ■ Sea turtles have been around for tens of millions of years. The males spend their entire lives in the ocean. The females venture onto beaches for a few hours...
Kauai (Hawaii) – 100...
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100 Places to Remember > Kauai (Hawaii) USA ■ The fourth largest of the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai is one of the wettest spots on the earth. Large parts of the mountainous island are swathed in cloud. These lush and...
Earthquake in Haiti
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Although this blog was created to point out the beautiful things that I see or that I hear about, it is hard not to mention the human catastrophe that occurred during Haiti’s earthquake on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The...
Car Consumption
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USA ■ The auto junkyard of Ayer, Massachusetts, was originally used to retrieve car parts. But with the development of recycling methods, dismantling and storing vehicles was abandoned and replaced by merely the...
Urbanization of Tseu...
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HONG KONG ■ Although recently constructed, buildings of the commuter town of Tseung Kwan of the New Territories must already be repaired through scaffolding. The Chinese administrative region of Hong Kong, which has...
E-Waste – Agbo...
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GHANA ■ The Agbogbloshie Market in Accra is a place where young men and children work by dismantling computers and other e-waste in search of spare parts to sell at the nearby open-air market. Those machines came...
Colourful sea creatu...
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Nudibranchs are molluscs recognized by their striking shapes and multicoloured appearance. Their land cousins being the snails, nudibranchs have gills that are not protected by a shell. One can believe that these creatures...