It amazed me, to think that people, who had no means of mass communication, knew about Kennedy and the assassination; his popularity was truly international.
Posted on 07/20/2013 10:39:45 PM PDT by blam
Edited on 07/20/2013 11:00:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A new online tool released by the Department of the Interior this week allows users to select any major stream and trace it up to its sources or down to its watershed.
The above map, exported from the tool, highlights all the major tributaries that feed into the Mississippi River, illustrating the river
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
We stepped over the very beginning at Lake Itasca, MN many years ago....kind of a hoot.
Back in 1980 I was in Mogadishu, Somalia. While there, I met a group of American students traveling around the world in a ship borne-floating college. One of the students was working on a sociology project wherein she asked local people at each port of call to draw a map of their local area and of the world as they understood it.
She said that nearly all of the respondents in nearly all of the ports drew maps analogous to the one you posted. That is, “I live here. The people I have an interest in live there. Places and people I have heard of, but have no real interest in live way over there.”
I have been privileged to have traveled over a good part of the world. I have used maps for everything from orienteering to flying my aircraft internationally. The nations in which I have worked & lived I can place on a map, in relation to their neighbors and in a fairly accurate shape and area.
However, I could not place Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan or Tajikistan accurately on a map. I have never been anywhere near these countries and I have no particular interest in any of them.
Cutting short my rambling discourse, I would just say that nearly everyone on earth, not just Americans, would draw a similar self-centered map of the world.
How convenient, now they can show how your bath tub is a navigable waterway or declare it a wetland.
"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
--Mark Twain
It amazed me, to think that people, who had no means of mass communication, knew about Kennedy and the assassination; his popularity was truly international.
Here's a map for you...... The Great River Road. It is a marked series of roads and Hiways from Lake Istasca Minnesota to Venice Louisana following the river. It is about 2,300 miles through the heartland and a great excursion. It passes through many small towns and several cities. It is America at it's best
Looks pretty accurate to me, but you have to change “Santa” to “Obama” so the Map is up to date.
Yep, it missed several from my county that borders on the Mississippi.
The Silk Road?
Years of traffic wore the silk down to nothing, now it’s just road.
/rimshot
btw, I’ve got some stuff on deck about the Kushan Empire.
Thanks.
My sisters husbands father, Dallas Moorhead, traveled that entire road by himself.
He and I surprised ourselves and other family members at a Thanksgiving dinner one year by having detailed discussion about the area and the mummies at Urumchi...he actually went to the Urumchi museum and saw them.
See here:
The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy
Cherchen Man/Ur David
Are you sure that isn't a recent pic of Al Sharpton?
Coming soon to a tub near you: the rubber ducky & toy sailboat navigate it regularly, so...
You have to have the boat safety inspected & licensed and registered; and pay a government launching fee every time it sails, and docking & storage fees every time you park it on the edge of the tub.
EPA evironMENTAL inspectors regularly check the tub for 'pollution' and to insure it meets 16 pages of standards.
There's a remotely monitored depth gauge and Army Corps of Engineers valving system, so they can cut off inflow, or even draw it down if it gets dangerously full....
Coming soon to a tub near you: the rubber ducky & toy sailboat navigate it regularly, so...
You have to have the boat safety inspected & licensed and registered; and pay a government launching fee every time it sails, and docking & storage fees every time you park it on the edge of the tub.
EPA evironMENTAL inspectors regularly check the tub for 'pollution' and to insure it meets 16 pages of standards.
There's a remotely monitored depth gauge and Army Corps of Engineers valving system, so they can cut off inflow, or even draw it down if it gets dangerously full....
Hi there! Love the map!
: )
That’s Al without his make-up.
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