Joshua Foust on Aug 25 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
Geography, people:
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd sent extra diplomatic and police officials to west Africa to help investigate the kidnapping in Somalia of a group of reporters, including an Australian photojournalist.
“We have deployed additional staff from our mission in Pretoria to our High Commission in Nairobi,” Rudd told reporters in Canberra [...]
Lance on Jan 24 2008 | Filed under: History, Lance's Page
In the annals of excruciating misery during wartime, few events can compare with what befell Napoleon’s troops during his campaign in Russia. From Strange Maps we see the suffering and tragedy in graphic statistical form. (click image to enlarge)
“The best statistical graphic ever drawn“, is how statistician Edward Tufte described this chart in his [...]
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