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Serbia
Second Mass Shooting
Eight people were killed, and another 14 were wounded, in random shootings by a single gunman across three Serbian villages in the country’s second mass shooting in two days. Police arrested a suspect Friday after an all-night manhunt involving over 600 police officers near the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, about 60 miles (100 km) south of the capital, Belgrade. Although details are unclear, the shooter began firing at people from a moving car with an automatic weapon after having an argument with a police officer. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called Thursday’s shooting an attack on the whole nation and reported the suspect wore a shirt with neo-Nazi symbols on it. He announced the shooting as an act of terror along with a number of new gun-control measures, including a moratorium on new permits for firearms, as well as hiring 1,200 new police officers. The shooting comes one day after a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns to kill eight fellow students and a guard at a school in Belgrade.
This map depicts the locations of this week’s two mass shooting incidents in and near Serbia’s capital of Belgrade. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Graphic News
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Gabon
Pirates Take Hostages
Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea attacked a US-owned bulk carrier on Monday, kidnapping the skipper and two officers. The 623-foot (190-meter) Grebe Bulker was moored off Owendo, the port on the southern tip of Gabon’s capital, Libreville. A Gabonese patrol vessel managed to save 17 members of the crew, but not before the pirates fled with the captain, a Russian citizen, and two Georgian officers. The International Maritime Bureau, which monitors piracy, reported worldwide pirate activity in the first three months of 2023 was at its lowest level in 30 years. However the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West Africa, remains one of the global hotspots for piracy, especially by Nigerian gangs.
This map depicts the location of the port of Owendo, in Gabon’s capital of Libreville, where three officers of a bulk carrier were kidnapped by pirates. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Yahoo! News
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United Kingdom
London Prepares for Coronation
Saturday, May 6th, is the official Coronation Day for King Charles III, who is set to follow a formal processional route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey to arrive at the ceremony. Coronations have remained much the same for more than 1,000 years, however the British ceremony is the only remaining event of its type in Europe. This coronation is planned to be shorter and smaller in scale than Queen Elizabeth II’s June 1953 coronation, for which she travelled a 4.3 mile (7 km) route through London. The King and his wife, Camilla, will travel 1.3 miles (2.1 km) to Westminster Abbey in a relatively modern horse-drawn carriage. The coronation of Charles’ mother, Elizabeth II, who died in September, was the first coronation to be transmitted live and in full at a time when television broadcasting was still a novelty. Charles’ crowning is set to be broadcast on the BBC’s streaming service iPlayer, alongside television coverage worldwide.
This map depicts the 2023 coronation procession route relative to the 1953 route. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Where can one find Europe’s tallest sand dune?
A: Dune du Pilat, France
The Grande Dune du Pilat is located in the Archachon Bay region, about 37 miles (60 km) southwest of Bordeaux. Dune du Pilat is the tallest sand dune in Europe, measuring 1,640 ft (500 m) wide and 347 ft (106 m) above sea level. The dune is a foredune, running parallel to the shoreline, and is slowly migrating. The Atlantic Ocean’s westerly winds are constantly reshaping the dune, eroding sand from its seaward side and pushing it onto the landward side, slowly causing the dune to move away from the coast and towards the inland pine forest, roads, and homes. Cartographic maps from the early and late 1700s had placed the dune further south and offshore than its current location, evidencing the sand dune’s migratory history. Dune du Pilat’s current location was known as “Les Sabloneys” or “The New Sands” until the 1930s when it was renamed to Pilat by a real estate developer.
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Q: Considered one of the most remarkable structures on Earth, how old are the earliest-known fortifications that would eventually become the Great Wall of China?
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