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4 unusual facts about geography


Jared Diamond bibliography

Originally trained in physiology, Diamond's work is known for drawing from a variety of fields, and he is currently Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rio Claro, São Paulo

Rio Claro hosts one public university, UNESP, offering courses in Geology, Geography, Environmental Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Physical Education, Ecology, Biology and Pedagogy (teacher training).

Shiba P. Chatterjee

Shiba Prasad Chatterjee (February 22, 1903 – February 27, 1989) was a Professor of Geography at the University of Calcutta.

The Field Trip

It is a new term and the boys have signed up for the annual Geography and Sociology field trip to Swanage.


American studies in the United Kingdom

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.

Barbara Lukermann

Born in Gomersal, England, on Feb. 19, 1930, Lukermann was inspired to go into geography studies by a grammar school teacher.

Bernard John Smith

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.

Bohemian Switzerland

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.

Briony Penn

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.

Bundesstraße 1

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.

Cape Markov

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.

Cristián Undurraga

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.

Dervenochoria

Its geography consists of grasslands and bushes to the south and west, forest in the midlands and to the east that connects with Parnitha.

Felipe Maillo Salgado

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.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

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

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.

Halizones

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

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.

Illyriad

In Jun 2011 the geography of one part of the world became infected and changes on a daily basis.

James Burton Robertson

In 1855 John Henry Newman nominated Robertson as professor of geography and modern history in the Catholic University of Ireland.

Jerzy Adamuszek

After completion of a Master’s degree in geography at Jagiellonian University, in 1980, he moved to Canada.

Jonathan Meiburg

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

Jørgen Landt (c. 1751–1804) was a Danish priest, botanist and author, who published descriptions of the people and geography of the Faroe Islands.

King Henry VIII School Abergavenny

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.

Lénárt sphere

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, Devon

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.

Limited geography model

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

Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action is a book written by George Perkins Marsh in 1864.

Mount Velain

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.

Mugger crocodile

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.

Noel Castree

Castree N., D. Demeritt, D. Liverman & B. Rhoads (eds.) A Companion to Environmental Geography.

Ole Humlum

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.

Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel

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).

Peronopsis

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).

Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan

The Center has become increasingly interdisciplinary over time, drawing faculty from Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Natural Resources, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics.

Preston Montford

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.

Primrose, Rhode Island

The geography of Primrose was drastically changed by the Wisconsin glaciation between 70,000 and 10,000 years ago.

Prograde

Progradation, in geography / geomorphology, refers to the growth of a river delta

Rafe de Crespigny

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 Steel

Robert Walter Steel (1915–1997), Professor of Geography at Liverpool University and Principal of the University College of Swansea

Roman Umbria

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.

Steensby Inlet

It is named in honor of Hans Peder Steensby, ethnographer and professor of geography at the University of Copenhagen.

Sutlej Channel

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.

This is Finland

It introduces young children to the history, culture and geography of Finland.

Tjøme

Ironically enough, it is not really the end of the world in any sense, but when one stands there and looks out across the vast area of ocean one can forget about the geography and really feel like there is nothing else out there.

Traffic zone

Traffic analysis zone, a unit of geography most commonly used in conventional transportation planning models

University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences

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.

Vicente Guallart

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”.

William Hovell

He died on 9 November 1875, and in 1877 his widow left £6000 to the University of Sydney as a memorial of him, which was used to found the William Hilton Hovell lectureship on geology and physical geography.

Wolfson Research Institute

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, Wisconsin

Wood County's geography is fairly diverse, spanning two of Wisconsin's five basic geographical regions.

Yuma Desert

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).


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