https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644 en-us 2022-11-02 18:19:28 UTC 2026-01-14 10:45:29 UTC hello@padlet.com rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367220951 This is U-shaped region of ancient rock, the nucleus of North America, stretching from the Great Lake to the Arctic Ocean. It's covering more than half of Canada, it also includes most of Greenland and extends into the United States. The region is largely undeveloped but has great water-power potential.]]> 2022-11-02 18:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367220951 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367234294 JFK International Airport is the main international airport serving New York City. It has over 90 airlines operate from the airport, with nonstop or direct flights to destinations in all six inhabited continents. JFK international airport would be redeveloped to make way for a new $9.5 billion terminal.]]> 2022-11-02 18:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367234294 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367242185 Ecatepec, Mexico is one of the largest suburbs in North America. The city is practically co-extensive with the municipality, comprising 99% of the total municipal population of 1,645,352.The name "Ecatepec" is derived from Nahuatl, and means "windy hill" or "hill devoted to Ehecatl.]]> 2022-11-02 19:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367242185 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367250309 The melting pot is at the heart of the American immigration system. The location that has the most immigrants in US is California. Because Californians have positive views of immigrants. They believe immigrants are a benefit to the state because of their hard work and job skills]]> 2022-11-02 19:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367250309 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367503420 New York City is a common example of gentrification. Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. It is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and planning.]]> 2022-11-03 00:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2367503420 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2373666903 The Amazon river in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile.]]> 2022-11-07 18:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2373666903 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2373670989 Slash and burn agriculture is most often practiced in places where open land for farming is not readily available because of dense vegetation. ]]> 2022-11-07 18:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2373670989 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2373678122 Haiti was a safe harbor for revolutionaries and formerly enslaved Africans. Although the republic made promises to colonials powers that it would not intervene in freedom and independence struggles, Haiti continued to support rebellions, intercepted ships carrying enslaved people, and freed its human cargo.]]> 2022-11-07 18:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2373678122 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2374044309 The day of the death is called 'Dia de los muertos'. People celebrate honorable death, especially there Nov 1st is for children who died. This dat is celebrated by Spanish speaking countries.]]> 2022-11-08 00:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2374044309 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2374089976 A total of 11,088 sq km (4,281 sq miles) of rainforest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. The Amazon is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming. The Amazon is home to about three million species of plants and animals, and one million indigenous people.]]> 2022-11-08 01:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2374089976 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414552447 Midnight sun is in the middle of the night when the sky is normally a velvety blanket of darkness, the sun can clearly still be seen. Dubbed as the land of the midnight sun, Norway is one of the very few locations where sunset merges into sunrise, with no darkness in between.
The midnight sun only occurs at certain times of the year and is only visible very close to the Arctic. 

]]> 2022-12-08 16:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414552447 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414558225 The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands. The territory that subsequently became the Zuiderzee was in the 1st century CE a mixture of lowland and freshwater lake. By about 1000 CE, however, the terpen area had been completely enclosed by dikes.]]> 2022-12-08 16:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414558225 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414562083 The French Revolution had general causes common to all the revolutions of the West at the end of the 18th century. The feudal regime had been weakened step-by-step and had already disappeared in parts of Europe. The increasingly numerous and prosperous elite of wealthy commoners aspired to political power in those countries where it did not already possess it. ]]> 2022-12-08 16:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414562083 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414567544 The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2019. it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.]]> 2022-12-08 16:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2414567544 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2416513921 The Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic tried to increase Serbia's power over the rest of Yugoslavia. As a result, in 1991 and 1992, four republics left Yugoslavia. Serbia went to war against them but lost.]]> 2022-12-10 20:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2416513921 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453722097 Ural mountains are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north-south from the cost of artic ocean. The mountain range forms part of conventional boundary between the regions of Russia and Asia. Their resources include metal ores, coal, and precious and semi-precious stones.]]> 2023-01-23 18:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453722097 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453729495 The Aral sea was endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbeckistan. And it began to shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up in 2010s. Formerly the fourth largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km² (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.]]> 2023-01-23 18:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453729495 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453733085 The coastlines of the Caspian are shared by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan. The Caspian is divided into three distinct physical regions: the Northern, Middle, and Southern Caspian. The Northern–Middle boundary is the Mangyshlak Threshold, which runs through Chechen Island and Cape Tiub-Karagan.]]> 2023-01-23 18:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453733085 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453741354 To meet the requirements, a group of people must number fewer than 50,000 people, maintain a traditional way of life, inhabit certain remote areas of the country, and identify as a distinct ethnic group. Some Russian aborigines – are nomads, who migrate every year through Arctic tundra with their reindeer herds. The others, inhabitants of forest tundra or taiga, live in villages, doing traditional activities, such as reindeer herding, hunting, fishing and gathering, living in-sink with mother nature. 

]]> 2023-01-23 18:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453741354 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453750371 Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, close to the Caspian Sea. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Checheno-Ingush ASSR split into two parts: the Republic of Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic.]]> 2023-01-23 19:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2453750371 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496692762 The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. For thousands of years, the river has provided a source of irrigation to transform the dry area around it into lush agricultural land. Of the world's major rivers, the Nile is one of the smallest, as measured by annual flow in cubic metres of water]]> 2023-02-27 16:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496692762 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496701130 Nearly all of the country's primary reserves are concentrated in around the delta of the Niger River, but off-shore rigs are also prominent in the well-endowed coastal region. Nigeria is one of the few major oil-producing nations still capable of increasing its oil output. Nigeria has a total of 159 oil fields and 1481 wells in operation according to the Department of Petroleum Resources.]]> 2023-02-27 16:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496701130 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496708584 The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 marked the climax of the European competition for territory in Africa, a process commonly known as the Scramble for Africa.During the 1870s and early 1880s European nations such as Great Britain, France, and Germany began looking to Africa for natural resources for their growing industrial sectors as well as a potential market for the goods these factories produced. As a result, these governments sought to safeguard their commercial interests in Africa and began sending scouts to the continent to secure treaties from indigenous peoples or their supposed representatives]]> 2023-02-27 17:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496708584 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496711917 Islam is the dominant religion of Somalia, practiced by over 99% of the population. The vast majority of Somalis are Sunni and of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence. The role of religious functionaries began to shrink in the 1950s and 1960s as some of their legal and educational powers and responsibilities were transferred to secular authorities]]> 2023-02-27 17:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496711917 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496714972 Everyday, I hear the most harrowing reports from our UN teams on the ground. Somali refugees, their cattle and goats dead from thirst, walking for weeks to find help in Kenya and Ethiopia. Women cannot be treated as women in somalia.]]> 2023-02-27 17:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2496714972 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536673299 Jordan River is the river in the middle east that flows roughly north to south through the sea of Galilee and on the dead sea. The river holds the major significance in Judasim and Christianity. According to the bible, the Islaelites crossed it into the Promised land and Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Beptist in it.]]> 2023-03-29 12:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536673299 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536678419 One of the most ancient forms of herding is nomadic herding. Nomadic herders roam in small tribal or extended family groups and have no home base. Nomads live in arid and semiarid parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe, and in the tundra regions of Asia and Europe.]]> 2023-03-29 12:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536678419 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536687309 Muhammad was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teaching and practices forming the base of Islamic religious belief. The revelation that Muhammad reported receiving until his death from the verses of the Quran, regarded by Muslims as the verbatim "word of god" on which the religion is based. ]]> 2023-03-29 13:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536687309 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536698840 Kurds or Kurdish people are in the Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of kurdistan in Western asia. Kurds speak the Kurdish languages and zaza gorani languages, which belongs to the western Iranian branch of Iranian language. After world war1 and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of sevres. ]]> 2023-03-29 13:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536698840 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536701237 Since 2011, more than 14 million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety. More than 6.8 million Syrians remain internally displaced in their own country where 70 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance and 90 percent of the population live below the poverty line.]]> 2023-03-29 13:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2536701237 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563208535 The Himalayas is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The Himalayas abut or cross Buthan, India, Nepal, China and Pakistan.]]> 2023-04-21 12:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563208535 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563212048 The Ganges is the trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through Bangladesh and India. The Ganges is a lifeline to million of people who live in its basin and depend on it for their daily need.]]> 2023-04-21 13:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563212048 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563217639 Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze age civilisation in the northwestern region of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE. The civilisation flourished both in the alluvial plain in the Indus river, which flows through the length of Pakistan,]]> 2023-04-21 13:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563217639 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563513478 Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion it is the world's third-largest with over 1.2-1.35 follower, or 15-16% of global population, known as Hindus.]]> 2023-04-21 17:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563513478 rlee278 https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563521655 Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid 19th century, the term Kashmir denoted only the Kashmir Valley between Great Himalayas and the Par Panjal Range]]> 2023-04-21 17:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rlee278/l9op5pepj05vu644/wish/2563521655