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United States
Nashville School Shooting Kills 6
Three nine-year-old students and three adults were killed yesterday at the Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville when a lone shooter attacked yesterday morning. The shooter, identified by police as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, shot through a door to enter the school, and wandered the halls looking for victims before firing at police vehicles from a window. Police entered the building and shot Hale dead. Hale was a former student of the school and police found a message and detailed maps of the school that Hale had left behind, indicating the attack had been carefully planned for some time.
This map depicts the location of the Covenant Presbyterian Church and School in Nashville, TN, where a lone shooter killed three students and three adults on Monday morning. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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Vietnam
Chinese Ship in Vietnam’s EEZ
Vietnam has sent a ship to monitor a Chinese Coast Guard vessel in Vietnam’s South China Sea exclusive economic zone (EEZ) within a Russian-operated gas field. According to vessel-tracking data, Chinese Coast Guard ships have sailed into energy exploration blocks owned and operated by Russian firms in Vietnam’s EEZ around 40 times since January of 2022. Although these zones are not territorial waters, both Vietnam and Indonesia have asked China to avoid gas fields in their EEZs. Since EEZs usually extend 200 nautical miles beyond their shores and a country’s territorial waters under international law extend 12 nautical miles from their shores, conflicts can arise where boundaries overlap. A spokesperson from China’s foreign ministry stated the Chinese Coast Guard carries out patrols in this area, and was not aware of the presence in energy exploration blocks operated by Russian firms.
This map depicts the location of Chinese Coast Guard ships patrolling Russian gas and oil fields in the South China Sea. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Reuters
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Lebanon
New Time Zone Conflicts
The Lebanese government has reversed a last-minute decision to delay the start of Daylight Saving Time until April 21st due to Ramadan and will now move forward an hour on Thursday, March 30th. The original decision to wait until April 21st caused confusion and deepened religious divisions. Until Thursday, the official time in Lebanon will be UTC +2, although several institutions have already switched to Lebanese Daylight Saving Time (UTC +3). The delay to April had been put in place to accommodate the country’s Muslims, who would have their fasting time for Ramadan lengthened by an extra hour. This reasoning was rejected by Christians in Lebanon’s leading Maronite Church who made the change this past weekend as would have been typical. Many Lebanese residents have found themselves in the position of juggling schedules for work, school, travel, and phone networks in different time zones – all in the same small country. The civil conflict and an absence of a president for the last five months has brought most public institutions to a standstill in the midst of the country’s worst financial crisis in its modern history.
This map depicts Lebanon and its time zone relative to its Middle Eastern neighbors. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What landlocked US state has more miles of shoreline than the state of Florida?
A: South Dakota
South Dakota may lie directly in the center of the country, however it still has more miles of shoreline than the Sunshine State, Florida. This is due to the fact that South Dakota has many rivers and bodies of water that run through the state, including the Missouri (the longest in the state), the James, Cheyenne, Big Sioux, and White rivers, as well as the 231 mile (371 km) long Lake Oahe, a reservoir along the Missouri. The majority of South Dakota’s natural lakes can be found in the state’s eastern region, and are mostly the product of glacial retreat during the last ice age. Lake Thompson is the largest natural lake in the state, and has expanded over the last 30 years as a result of a wet period in the 80s and 90s that dramatically filled the lake. Thanks to the abundance of water that feeds fertile soils, the Mount Rushmore state’s number one industry is agriculture.
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Q: What nut is native to southwestern Asia but sees 80 percent of its global production in California?
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