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Ukraine
Russian Missile Strike Kills 52
There were no military targets in the Ukrainian village hit by a Russian missile strike in one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the war began. Russian forces targeted a cafe and a shop in Hroza, a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, with a powerful Iskander ballistic missile, killing at least 52 people. Investigators and forensic teams have worked through the night to try to count and identify bodies, which has proven difficult due to the force and aftermath of the blast. The country’s president described these attacks as “inhuman” and “deliberate,” calling for more air defenses from allies, especially ahead of anticipated winter bombardments.
This map depicts the location where Russian forces launched a missile strike on civilians in the village of Hroza. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: NPR
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Syria
Drone Attack on Military School
At least 89 are dead and nearly 300 wounded from a drone strike on a military college graduation in Homs on Thursday. The attack occurred just after the ceremony had ended, as graduates and families were gathering to take pictures. The Homs Military Academy is a source of new officers, as all ground forces officers graduate from it. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack; however, the Syrian army has blamed internationally backed terrorist groups. Homs is central to the road that connects Aleppo to Damascus, making it an important place strategically. This is the deadliest drone strike yet in the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011.
This map depicts the location of the military school that was attacked with a drone. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Yahoo News
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France
Mont Blanc Shrinks
Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, has shrunk by 7.2 ft (2.2 m) since 2021 to its lowest height in recent memory. Mont Blanc straddles France, Italy and Switzerland, and is measured every two years to try and track the impact of climate change on the Alps. The mountain, which is capped by a ridge of ice covering the rock, was measured by a team of surveyors from the Haute-Savoie regional administration, aided by a drone. The results, published on Thursday, suggest the new official height of Mont Blanc is 15,766.37 ft (4,805.59 meters). A thick covering of ice and snow means the mountain’s height changes from year to year depending on wind and weather.
This map depicts the location of Mont Blanc along the French-Italian border. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What explorer-scientist is known for mapping South America, Mexico, and Cuba and developing a theory of the “unity of nature”?
A: Alexander Humboldt
Alexander Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer, is a major figure in physical geography and biogeography. Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland spent five years, from 1799 to 1804, in Central and South America, covering more than 6,000 miles (9,650 km). Humboldt and Bonpland returned with an immense amount of information. In addition to a vast collection of new plants, there were determinations of longitudes and latitudes, measurements of the components of Earth’s geomagnetic field, and daily observations of temperatures and barometric pressure, as well as statistical data on the social and economic conditions of Mexico. Humboldt’s representation on weather maps of isotherms (lines connecting points with the same mean temperature) and isobars (lines connecting points with the same barometric pressure for a given time or period) helped lay the foundation for the science of comparative climatology. Even more important were his pioneering studies on the relationship between a region’s geography and its flora and fauna, and, above all, the conclusions he drew from his study of the Andean volcanoes concerning the role played by eruptive forces and metamorphosis in the history and ongoing development of Earth’s crust.
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Q: People in what country invented the compass for divination and fortune-telling in the 2nd century BC, only using it for navigation in the 11th century?
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