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Singapore
Summit Solution
President Trump said Tuesday at the highly anticipated Singapore summit between the U.S. and North Korea that the U.S. would be suspending military exercises on and around the Korean Peninsula. U.S. aircraft carriers regularly visit areas near the Korean Peninsula as part of annual military exercises with South Korea and Japan. This summit marked the first time a sitting U.S. president met with the leader of North Korea. The summit ended with a joint statement that seven decades of hostility between the two countries has come to an end. President Trump believes that Kim Jong-un will be quick to dismantle his nuclear arsenal after this show of good faith. This map depicts the U.S. military presence on and around the Korean Peninsula. Click on the map to learn more.
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United States
416 Wildfire Forces Closure
A wildfire, named the 416 Fire, in Hermosa, Colorado, is forcing San Juan National Forest to close. The fire began on June 1 and has since burned over 22,000 acres of land; currently, 15 percent of the fire has been contained. An announcement of “Stage 3 closure,” a complete closure of the National Park, has been issued on Tuesday to “protect natural resources and public safety.” According to La Plata County Manager, more than 2,000 homes have been evacuated since the fire started; luckily, there have not been any injuries or structural damages reported. This map depicts the latest range of 416 Fire. Click on the map to learn more.
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Taiwan
New “de facto” Embassy
The United States announced a new representative office, the American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) in Taipei, which will be the U.S.’s de facto embassy. Like many other countries, the U.S. holds no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan due to the “one China” policy. However, under the Trump administration, the U.S. has forged closer “unofficial” ties with Taiwan as the island is a close American ally in the region. The new office is one more step in an effort to strengthen the relationship between the U.S. and Taiwan. As Taiwan faces escalating tensions with China, the U.S. remains Taiwan’s foreign arms supplier under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. This map depicts countries that have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan. Click on the map to learn more.
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Monsters of the United States, by cartographer Chelsea Nestel, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, blurs the lines between art and mapmaking. Partly inspired by the famous Bobby Pickett song “Monster Mash,” Nestel sought to give geography to the country’s most fearsome or beloved local monsters. Nestel extensively researched U.S. regional folklore to chose the most famous mythical beast from each state. The map features more well-known monsters, such as the Jersey Devil, a flying, hooved bi-ped that inhabits the state’s southern pine barrens, and New Mexico’s blood-sucking Chupacabra. It also features less-known creatures, such as the Cactus Cat of Nevada, a spiny, devilish bobcat creature drunk on fermented cactus juice, and South Carolina’s Boo Hag, a skin stealing vampire creature from Gullah mythology.
Nestel notes that the only state without a monster is Delaware, which remains “curiously monster free.” The map was featured in the third volume of the Atlas of Design, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society. The Atlas sifts through hundreds of competition entries in order to find maps which “impress the viewer at first glance, and have enough rich details to reward the time spent looking closer,” according to the Atlas’s co-editor Marty Elmer. Nestel’s monster map truly rewards close examination with a creative, detailed, and quirky look at the geography of American folklore.
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Q: What was the last land on Earth that humans set foot on?
A: Antarctica was not seen by human eyes until as late at 1820, and was not landed on until 1895. In that moment, every piece of land on earth had been touched by human beings.
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Q: What is the “happiest country” on Earth as of 2018?
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