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North Korea-Russia
Kim & Putin Seek Cooperation
US officials have reported North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, are planning to meet at Vladivostok to discuss sending North Korean weapons to Russia to support its invasion of Ukraine. The proposed meeting comes after a recent visit to North Korea by Russia’s Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu. The Russian military is reportedly in need of artillery shells and missiles, while North Korea’s leadership desires satellites and submarines, as well as food aid. The two leaders are expected to meet in connection with their attendance at the Eastern Economic Forum being held September 10-13 at Vladivostok’s Far Eastern Federal University.
This map depicts Vladivostok, Russia, where Putin and Kim Jong Un plan to meet. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: New York Times
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United States
Burning Man Mass Exodus
Tens of thousands of people have begun leaving the Burning Man Festival after days stranded in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Heavy rains caused the desert to become a mud bath at the remote site, with reports stating around 72,000 people were trapped. The rainfall that hit during the tail-end of the festival is believed to be the longest, heaviest rainfall since the festival moved to Black Rock in 1990. Festival goers were allowed to leave as of 2:00pm local time Monday afternoon, prompting a mass exodus about seven hours after the festival’s usual fiery conclusion. Congestion by attendees was so bad that drivers took approximately seven hours to drive a 5-mile route, prompting organizers to ask participants to consider staying longer to help combat the traffic on Tuesday.
This map depicts the Burning Man festival site where thousands of people were stuck following intense rain in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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Antarctica
Australian Researcher Rescued
An Australian rescue mission successfully retrieved a researcher who had taken ill from the Casey research station in Antarctica with an icebreaker ship and two helicopters. Australia operates three permanent research outposts in Antarctica, and Casey is the closest of the three to the Australian mainland. Only 20 people live at the research station during the peak of the Antarctic winter, leaving limited medical facilities. An icebreaker ship traveled over 1860 miles (2993 km) from Tasmania to a location 90 miles away from the station, where two helicopters could be safely launched to the Casey outpost. As of Monday, the unnamed researcher has reached the icebreaker ship and is en route to Tasmania to receive medical care.
This map depicts the icebreaker ship’s route from Tasmania to Australia’s Casey Station in Antarctica, where a researcher who had taken ill was rescued.
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Q: In what present-day country was the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BC) found?
A: Iraq
The Babylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a clay tablet written in the Akkadian language, an extinct East Semitic language spoken from the third millennium BC. Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area with its capital in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC, this tablet includes a brief and partially lost cuneiform inscription of the oldest known depiction of the known world. The circular map is centered on the Euphrates, flowing from the north to the south. The city of Babylon is shown on the Euphrates, with surrounding marshes. Mesopotamia is surrounded by a circular “bitter river” or ocean, and seven or eight “Regions,” depicted as triangular sections, lying beyond the Ocean. It has been argued that the design of this map of the world may have lived on in the T and O maps (Isidoran maps) of the European Middle Ages.
Source World History
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Q: What are the two double landlocked countries in the world, meaning that they are surrounded by countries that are themselves landlocked?
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