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Because of Britain's long association with the Americas, there is also a history of comment and analysis of the geography, culture and peoples of America, from Sir Walter Raleigh and Charles Dickens to Rudyard Kipling and Alistair Cooke.
Born in Gomersal, England, on Feb. 19, 1930, Lukermann was inspired to go into geography studies by a grammar school teacher.
On his return to the UK (via Land Rover across the Sahara) he took up a lecturing position in the Geography Department of Queen's University Belfast in 1979.
The name was inspired by the Swiss artists Adrian Zingg and Anton Graff, who were reminded of their homeland by the geography of northern Bohemia.
The project continues under the aegis of the geography department in the University of Victoria, with active research based on Denny Island and supported by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, as a research project.
A trade and military road was already mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography about 150 AD, parts of it formed the medieval Westphalian Hellweg trade route, vital for the transport of salt and crops, and the course of the Via Regia, the Ottonian "royal road" trough the Holy Roman Empire from Aachen to Magdeburg.
Lewis takes the view that maps by the cartographer Ptolemy marked the coastline of Cardigan Bay in the same location as it appears in modern times, suggesting that the date of the flood occurred before the second century AD.
It was named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1961–62, for K.K. Markov, professor of geography at Moscow State University, and the author of a number of reports on Antarctica.
Its particular dialogue with geography and its balance between tradition and modernity lead it to be recognized with the Andrea Palladio International Prize, juried by James Stirling, Rafael Moneo, Manfredo Tafuri and Francesco Dal Co in 1991.
David Woodward (29 August 1942 – 25 August 2004) was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.
Its geography consists of grasslands and bushes to the south and west, forest in the midlands and to the east that connects with Parnitha.
Graduated in Spanish Philology and Geography & History by Salamanca University (1978) and in Semitic Philology by University of Granada (1979), earning a doctorate in Spanish Philology at Salamanca University by 1981.
The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.
Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan was a professor of mathematics, geography, and calligraphy at the Robert College of Istanbul, known for designing the signature of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey.
According to Homer, the Halizones came from "Alybe far away, where is the birth-place of silver,..." Strabo (in his Geography) speculates that "Alybe far away" may originally have read as "Chalybe far away", and he suggests that the Halizones may have been Chalybes, as well as Khaldi.
Horrible Geography is a series of books which is a spin-off of the Horrible Histories series written by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips, and published in the UK by Scholastic.
In Jun 2011 the geography of one part of the world became infected and changes on a daily basis.
In 1855 John Henry Newman nominated Robertson as professor of geography and modern history in the Catholic University of Ireland.
After completion of a Master’s degree in geography at Jagiellonian University, in 1980, he moved to Canada.
After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in Geography and wrote a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".
Jørgen Landt (c. 1751–1804) was a Danish priest, botanist and author, who published descriptions of the people and geography of the Faroe Islands.
The school at this time was supposed to be a grammar school taking pupils from all over North Monmouthshire with a curriculum of Latin, English, History, Geography, French, Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry and Chemistry.
Following Glen Van Brummelen (Reference 1 below, p. 129, stereographic projection), spherical trigonometry, though certainly no longer relevant to the older scientific needs of navigation, astronomy, geography, etc., other than as historical mathematics, has nevertheless seen a "rebirth" today due to simulation, game programming, Autodesk Maya, kinematics, physics engines, and many other new fields as diverse as optics, photography, art and medicine.
Lifton is a village and civil parish in Devon, South West England near the confluence of the rivers Wolf and Lyd, 1¼ miles south of the A30 trunk road and very near the border between Devon and Cornwall.
These models, developed in an effort to reconcile claims in the Book of Mormon with archaeology and geography, have situated the book's events in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Great Lakes area.
Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action is a book written by George Perkins Marsh in 1864.
It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition 1903-05, under Charcot, and named by him for Charles Velain, a French geologist, geographer, and professor of physical geography at the Sorbonne.
In the 1980s, the largest population of wild crocodiles in Tamil Nadu, South India lived in the Amaravathi Reservoir, and in the Chinnar, Thennar and Pambar rivers that drain into it.
Castree N., D. Demeritt, D. Liverman & B. Rhoads (eds.) A Companion to Environmental Geography.
Ole Humlum (born 21 July 1949) is a Danish professor of physical geography at the University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences and adjunct professor of physical geography at the University Centre in Svalbard.
After finishing his geography studies he became the leader of a Amazon-Jari-Expedition (1935-1937), supported by both Brazilian and German governments and the Nazi party's Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO).
montis Matthew, 1889 is known from the Middle Cambrian of the Russian Federation (Kounamkites-zone, Daldyn river Basin, and Nekekit River; Ovatoryctocara-zone, Molodo River, Olenik Uplift, Yakutia; Shistocephalus antiquus-zone, Lena River), and Canada (Mount Stephen, British Columbia; Bathyuriscus-Elrathina-zone, Rocky Mountains).
Opened as a Field Centre in 1957, Preston Montford is visited by large numbers of 15-18 year old students of Biology and Geography, as well as by younger aged school groups.
The geography of Primrose was drastically changed by the Wisconsin glaciation between 70,000 and 10,000 years ago.
Progradation, in geography / geomorphology, refers to the growth of a river delta
He specialises in the history, geography and literature of the Han Dynasty and has been acknowledged internationally as a pioneer in the translation and historiography of historical material concerning the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.
Robert Walter Steel (1915–1997), Professor of Geography at Liverpool University and Principal of the University College of Swansea
The main source for the regions is the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder, who informs his readers he is basing the geography of Italy on the discriptio Italiae, "division of Italy," made by Augustus.
Shiba Prasad Chatterjee (February 22, 1903 – February 27, 1989) was a Professor of Geography at the University of Calcutta.
MacEachren, A. M. and D. R. F. Taylor (eds.) (1994) Visualization in Modern Cartography, Pergamon.
It is named in honor of Hans Peder Steensby, ethnographer and professor of geography at the University of Copenhagen.
Sutlej Channel is a channel or strait on the north sides of Broughton Island and North Broughton Island, or the Broughton Archipelago of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
It introduces young children to the history, culture and geography of Finland.
Traffic analysis zone, a unit of geography most commonly used in conventional transportation planning models
The institutes of Ecological Sciences and Earth Science are located at the King's Buildings, whilst the Institute of Geography is located on Drummond Street in the Central Area.
He spent part of his time with research and educational projects as former director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), in Barcelona, that holds an international postgraduate program on Architecture and Urbanism working in many scales “from Bits to geography”.
The building houses the School for Medicine and Health and the North East Public Health Observatory, as well the Centre for History of Medicine and Disease, the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (Department of Psychology), the Durham Endocrinology Laboratory (Department of Anthropology), the Durham University Clinical Trials Unit and researchers from the Geography department.
Wood County's geography is fairly diverse, spanning two of Wisconsin's five basic geographical regions.
The saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) and the ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) are common on the bajadas, while many of the desert trees found are restricted to dry watercourses; these include paloverde (Parkinsonia), the desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), desert ironwood (Olneya tesota), and smoke trees (Psorothamnus spinosus).
Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Jean-Claude Thomas, Associate Professor of Geography-Cartography, Catholic University of America, 1967–76, George Mason University, 1976–85; United States Geological Survey (USGS) Cartographer from 1985, specializing in satellite image mapping at various scales, including the 1:25,000-scale color maps of McMurdo Dry Valleys, 1997.