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United States
States Rescind Mask Mandates
Yesterday, governors of Texas and Mississippi rescinded statewide mask mandates, bringing the total of states without mask requirements to thirteen, according to this map from CNN. In Texas, the mandate was removed via an executive order issued by Governor Greg Abbott, which goes into effect on March 10. The executive order also allows restaurants and other businesses in the state to operate at 100% capacity. In Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves announced the state would fully reopen as of today and masks would no longer be required by state law. Both Texas and Mississippi remain in the top ten deaths per capita amongst U.S. states. Health experts in both states urged the public to continue wearing face coverings and practicing social distancing.
This map depicts the number of states without a mask mandate in red. Click on the map to learn more.
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Afghanistan
Women Murdered
Three female media workers were shot dead in Jalalabad, Afghanistan yesterday morning. The women worked for an Afghan television station in the dubbing department and were killed in two separate attacks. In addition to the murders, a fourth woman was critically injured and taken to the nearest hospital. The assassinations occurred 3 months after the murder of Malala Mawand, a prominent female activist and TV anchor who worked for the same TV station. Authorities originally believed the murders were tied to the Taliban in an attempt to instill fear in the public. However, the Islamic State has since claimed responsibility for all three killings.
This map depicts the location of the murders in Afghanistan. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: The Times
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North Pole
Space Hurricane
A multi-national team of researchers led by scientists from Shandong University in China recently released a report in the journal Nature Communications confirming that satellites observed the first known “space hurricane” above the North Pole in August 2014. The plasma storm reached around 620 miles wide and had spiral arms and spun counter-clockwise, like regular hurricanes in the northern hemisphere. Lasting about 8 hours, the huge mass of plasma was fed by an “unusually large and rapid transfer of solar wind energy and charged particles into the Earth’s upper atmosphere,” according to Professor Mike Lockwood of the University of Reading, with the storm “raining” electrons in the same way terrestrial hurricanes precipitate water. Given the negative impacts of plasma storms and electron interference on satellites, the results of this report provides new data to help scientists look at ways to protect the Global Positioning System (GPS).
This map depicts the position and movement dynamics of the space hurricane observed by satellite data in August 2014. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Covering 360,000 sq. mi (930,000 km²) at the height of its influence, what was the largest empire in 15th Century Europe?
A: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Reaching from the Baltic Sea to the north to the Black Sea in the South, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is the forerunner of the modern Lithuanian and Belarusian states. At its furthest extent in the early 15th Century, its territory covered the area of those countries as well as parts of modern Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, and western Russia.
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Q: Encompassing 1.1 million acres (461,000 hectares) of pine-oak forests, which was the first National Reserve protected by the U.S. National Park Service in 1978?
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