Pay TV: Thursday, May 23

As a critic noted, the US is also a nation where, say, a baseball match between Wisconsin and Texas might be called the World Series.

To know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy, wrote Napoleon Bonaparte, who was nevertheless dealt a harsh lesson in that very subject during the bitter Russian winter of 1812. Kaplan analyzes this very concept in The Revenge of ...

Indian-American students are making their mark in this year's National Geographic Bee scheduled for May 20-23 in Washington D.C. They are going to represent 15 of the country's 50 states and four territories. The top 10 winners will compete for ...

World leading theorist of urban studies to deliver keynote lecture As part of the 45th Conference of Irish Geographers, Professor David Harvey, a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, will deliver a keynote lecture on Friday, 17 May at ...

Joseph Messina, professor of geography, is the lead researcher on a National Institutes of Health-funded project to control the tsetse fly that spreads sleeping sickness. Driving through a dry riverbed in Tarangire National Park in 1995, my ...

Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei Darussalam has actively supported the work of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) with the establishment of the Committee of Geographical back in 1976. This was mentioned by the Minister of ...

Focusing on a selected geographic area, this product presents data highlights for each of the major releases of the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). These data highlights are presented through text, tables and figures. The geographic levels ...

Enactus is an international student society that aims to use the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable, world. Rachel, a second year BA Geography student, is International Vice-President at ...

National Weather Service This map shows the track of a tornado on May 3, 1999, in green; and the track of Monday's tornado in red. The similarity of the paths is coincidental, but the larger patterns of storm activity in "Tornado Alley" are due in ...