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Russia
School Shooting Kills Seventeen
A school shooting on Monday in the central Russian city of Izhevsk resulted in 17 victims killed and with another 24 left wounded before the gunman took his own life. Eleven of the 17 people murdered were schoolchildren. Russian authorities have identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, who was a graduate of the same school and was reportedly registered as a patient at a psychiatric facility. He had obtained the pistols used in the massacre illegally. While Russian media is reporting Kazantsev’s clothing was decorated with “Nazi” symbols, no other information has been released about a possible motive. The regional government has declared three days of mourning.
This map depicts the location of the school in the Russian city of Izhevsk where a gunman killed 17 people before taking his own life. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Barron’s
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Somalia
Deadly Famine
According to the United Nations, almost eight million Somalians face extreme hunger, and more than 213,000 are at risk of death after four failed rainy seasons. Climate change, the war in Ukraine, and the pandemic have all led to supply issues and high food prices. Combatants in Somalia are blocking food deliveries as well, with food supplies not getting to areas governed by al-Shabab. Al-Shabab, affiliated with al-Qaeda, is considered a terrorist group by the United States and the United Kingdom. US counter-terror legislation, aimed at keeping resources out of al-Shabab’s hands, has prevented resources from reaching some of the hardest-hit areas by the drought. Eleven years ago, approximately 260,000 people died in a famine in al-Shabab territory.
This map depicts areas of famine and areas under al-Shabab control in in Somalia. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC News
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United States
Astronomers Map 56,000 Galaxies
A team of researchers led by astronomers from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa has compiled the largest ever compilation of distances to other galaxies at high precision. The results of their efforts will be published in a study in the Astrophysical Journal. The team used eight different methods to measure the distances to the other galaxies to create the new, largest-ever compilation of such data, which they’ve called Cosmicflows-4. The new galactic distance measurements have also helped researchers identify the expansion rate of the universe, known as the Hubble Constant.
This map depicts the 56,000 galaxies whose distances have been mapped in the largest-ever compilation, as measured by a team from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What archipelago is home to 332 volcanic islands spread out over one million square miles in the South Pacific Ocean?
A: Fiji
Fiji’s islands surround the Koro Sea some 1,300 miles (2,100 km) north of Auckland, New Zealand. Of the over 300 islands, about 100 are inhabited by humans. Many of Fiji’s islands have volcanic origins but are hazardous for navigation due to the offshore rocks and coral reefs bounded to them.The capital city, Suva, sits on the southeast coast of the largest island of the group, Viti Levu. At 4,000 sq miles (10,000 km), Viti Levu takes up more than half of Fiji’s entire land area. Although much of the islands’ shorelines are made up of reefs and rocks, mangrove swamps can be found on the eastern coasts. While the majority of the population are Indigenous Fijians, about two-fifths are of Indian descent, originally brought over as indentured servants to work on sugar plantations. Sugar was Fiji’s largest export post-independence, however Europe’s change in its sugar pricing structure hurt the archipelago’s economy, and it was forced to expand in other areas such as the garment industry and tourism to survive.
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Q: Most of us know about El Capitan in Yosemite, the giant granite monolith with a sheer vertical drop, but what is the name of the mountain with the largest sheer uninterrupted wall and vertical drop?
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