The following is a Google press release dated Tuesday April 3 2012: Google today announced a major global expansion of the Art Project, signing new partnerships with 151 partners in 40 countries. From now on, with a few simple clicks of their fingers, art lovers will be able to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art, and photographs. Creations from a wide variety of cultures and civilizations are represented,...
Read MoreA recent press release by the National Research Council stated that “The discipline generically known as “Geography” has become so multidisciplinary that it no longer has a conceptual definition, and the usage of its antiquated descriptive has become both misleading and inadequate in terms of current scientific endeavor.” The article goes on to note that, while Geography was considered the “Queen of...
Read More“A controversial plan to repopulate the grasslands of the western United States with genetically pure bison from Yellowstone National Park got under way in the dark of the night on March 21. Sixty-four of the animals, also known as buffalo, were shipped to Montana’s Fort Peck Reservation, where they will be bred by Native Americans who often regard them with spiritual reverence. Many of what are called buffalo in the...
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