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Twemlow is home to the Grade-II-listed Twemlow viaduct, built in brick by George W. Buck, engineer to Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company, in 1841. [3] It was built to allow the West Coast Mainline cross the River Dane. The viaduct has attracted fans of the singer Harry Styles since it featured in a 2013 film about the rise of One ...
For example, one paper proposed an amended version of Tobler's first law of geography, referred to in the text as the Tobler–von Thünen law, [49] which states: "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things, as a consequence of accessibility." [Note 1] [49]
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
an academic discipline – a body of knowledge given to − or received by − a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialize in. Modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks to understand the Earth and its human and natural complexities − not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come ...
The five themes were published in 1984 [1] and widely adopted by teachers, textbook publishers, and curriculum designers in the United States. [2] Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices, [3] as they provide "an alternative to the detrimental, but unfortunately persistent, habit ...
At least 35 children were killed and six others critically injured in a crowd crush at a funfair in the Nigerian city of Ibadan on Wednesday, police said.
Note that in this map, the north is at the bottom and south at the top, in contrast to modern cartographic conventions. In mathematical geography, Persian Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, around 1025, was the first to describe a polar equi-azimuthal equidistant projection of the celestial sphere. [49]
An MRI on Friday night revealed a Grade 2 calf strain. Raheem Blackshear is the lone running back remaining on the Panthers' active roster. He has three carries for 13 yards this season.