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I'm shutting it down and deleting all you folks from the user list. I'll start back up next semester if you would like to comment th...

http://www.einnews.com/russia/ The website above is a great source for current issues in Russia. Sure, we can all read our Globalization an...

Today, December 15th, started off like any other day in college geography with a trivia question. *The Central Asia Political Map was due to...

In 2008 Olympians from around the world will meet in Beijing to compete for the gold medals. Those gold medals won’t be awarded to anyone be...

Where is winter? People all over the world, especially in the northern hemisphere are asking. This winter is said to be the least snowy wint...

After almost 10 years it has been stated that the car crash that killed Princess Diana was considered a “Tragic Accident” and not a plot for...

A single cellphone signal brings hope for the family and friends of three people stranded on Mount Hood. The quick hope was for the responsi...

On Tuesday agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency carried out search warrants at six Swift Company processing plants. T...

Today in class we didn't take any notes because we had a speaker. He had visited Russia a few times in the past for work and came to sha...

With everything we have discussed regarding the war throughout our blogging experience, I think this article I found on MSNBC.com is interes...

I have heard multiple times in the past about how the students of the U.S. (you and me) are falling behind the rest of the world in the leve...

Although we think of evolution as a very gradual process, working in terms of hundreds of thousands of years, recent studies suggest that th...

European Union foreign ministers recently decided to stop talks between the Eu and Turkey for admittance into the European Union. This decis...

Sorry it's a little late, but I wasn't able to get the notes from Monday until now due to computer problems. Anyway on Monday we did...

Central Asia 12/13/06 *large, compact region within Euraisan landmass *until 1991, contained only 2 countries, Mongolia and Afganistan *Sov...

I looked down the list of threads and viewed some of them and found people complaining about others posting on overused topics, and more pos...

President Bush and Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh agreed to the agreement for the deal and the US Congress just passed the bill as we...

Who knows what they are eating when they go out to McDonalds or Burger King? This video that I'm posting will show you just that. It sho...

The mapping of India's national highways, a major project for the Central Road Research Institute, is slated to finish in 2009. 50,000 o...

Please check out the link, this is a really long and interesting story. The United State and South Korea have been talking about make a Free...

CNN reports that over 120 people in 6 states may be infected with the E.coli bacteria. Many people are connecting the E.coli outbreak to Tac...

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, over the Amazon 154 passengers and crew died after their commercial jet crashed. The jet was flying at 37,000 feet acc...

NBC's Peter Alexander reports that this father was lost in the snowy wilderness while seeking help for his stranded family. James Kim t...

In Arlington Virginia, a wet piece of concrete collapsed the scafolding it was sitting on and fell to the ground. In total, 16 workers were ...

Does anyone know how to find land use patterns maps for Sartell or economic activities as well as historical patterns? Any help would be gre...

This post is on my frustration of seeing the constant Global Warming articles in our blog. I undrestand that Global Warming is a large issue...

President Bush met with congressional leaders last Friday and said he would consider their ideas about Iraq. Congressional leaders believe t...

A smoky haze can be seen from space, covering a section of the Australian state of Victoria, where several wildfires, at last count 18, are ...

Research done recently found that birds changed their song in order to suite city life better. This study is the first of its kind to be com...

In London, British detectives were investigating the poisoning death of Alexander Litvenenko who was a former Russian spy. When the British...

Can you name one of the seven ancient wonders of the world? Hundreds, no actually thousands of years ago these unbelievable creations were ...

I thought this was extremely funny, since we sometimes hear Mrs. Hartmann say such "nice" things about britney spears. Britney Spe...

According to this article there could be water on Mars.. You know what that means, life on different planets? maybe. "New photographs ...

Until very recently, few people had heard of vCJD, or variant Creut-zfeld-Jakob Disease. Now, for those in Britain who have received blood t...

I recently read a article on the security in Iraq and when we will be able to give control to the Iraqi police force. The current general in...

Turkey has recently been struggling in being accepted into the EU. The reason for this conflict has been the island of Cyprus which is split...

Our World Continuation of Global Warming Below was a post about the findings of NASA and global warming. I found a site that had some intere...

NASA scientists proclaimed there was water found that was flowing throughout Mars. Researchers assume that for the past seven years, water h...

His name is Ananias Mathe and was detained last December with more then 50 charges, including murder and rape. At the age of 29, from Mozamb...