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Ethiopia
Rebels Advance Towards Capital
Ethiopia has declared a nationwide state of emergency as Tigrayan rebels advance towards the capital. This measure came after the rebels captured the strategic towns of Dessie and Kombolcha en route to the capital of Addis Ababa. To protect the capital, the Ethiopian Cabinet imposed road closures, curfews, and made calls for any citizen of military age to be prepared to fight. In addition, anyone suspected of collaborating with rebel forces can be arrested without a warrant. This conflict has been ongoing for more than a year, with the UN concerned about human rights abuses committed by all sides.
This map depicts regions in Ethiopia seeing fighting during the current civil war, including the strategic towns the Tigrayan rebels have captured. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Al Jazeera
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Australia
Missing Girl Found After 18 Days
Four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found almost 46 miles (74 km) from the Blowholes campsite she disappeared from more than two weeks ago. Her disappearance sparked a widespread, frantic search as well as a $1M reward offered by the State government for information to find her. Cleo was taken from her family tent early October 16th. Police found her alive and well 18 days later, in a locked house just 1.8 miles (3 km) away from the Smith family home in Carnarvon. The 36-year-old man who was the resident of the house has been taken into police custody for questioning.
This map depicts the location of Cleo Smith's campsite abduction and where she she was found, just 1.8 miles (3km) from her home and 46 miles (74 km) from the campsite. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: PerthNow
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Mexico
Mayan Artifacts Discovered
A 1,100 year-old canoe is the centerpiece of an array of findings from a freshwater pool near the ancient Mayan site of Chichen Itza in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The well-preserved canoe is the best ever found from the area inhabited by the Mayans, a pre-Hispanic Indigenous civilization centered in the Yucatan. A human skeleton, ritual knife, broken pottery, and a mural of painted hands on the ceiling of a nearby cave were also discovered during the archaeological survey. Archaeologists are searching for sites and relics in the Yucatan as Mexico prepares to lay a new intercity train line through the area to encourage tourism.
This map depicts the location of the abandoned Mayan city of Chichen Itza, near where archaeologists recently discovered a remarkably well-preserved canoe in a freshwater pool. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Which German philosopher was the first to teach geography as its own subject at the University of Königsberg in 1757, establishing geography as a legitimate science and an intellectual discipline?
A: Immanuel Kant
Although Kant is known better as a philosopher than geographer, he believed that while history classified things according to time, geography classifies things according to place. Because place plays a prominent role in any event, Kant viewed geography as having a place in seemingly every aspect of life and knowledge. Establishing geography as an academic science, he legitimized the discipline for future generations to come.
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(Image: Copy of Immanuel Kant geography lecture notes.)
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Q: Spanning around 18,600 miles (30,000 km) and 17 countries, what is longest road in the world?
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