NEW CAMERA
Posted by RAH on July 16, 2008
Means lots of new pictures!
This is a cloud and branch reflection in the River Cherwell.
It’s a simple country life!
The old cement works.
Almost tame.
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NEW LOOK TO GEOACTIVE
Posted by RAH on July 13, 2008
As this blog enters its thrid academic year this will be the new look. Page navigation is above, all the usual stuff is here still.
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Slide share
Posted by RAH on June 10, 2008
Click on the link below to go to Chandlings slide share area. Here you will see the slide shows you made this summer. You can see how many times they have been viewed and you can download them for yourself.
http://www.slideshare.net/chandlings
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10,000 Hits
Posted by RAH on May 25, 2008
Thank you for your visits to hit the 10,000 mark.
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By popular request - Nations of the World Lyrics
Posted by RAH on May 9, 2008
Announcer:
And now the nations of the world, brought to you by Yakko Warner!
Yakko:
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There’s Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia…
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylviania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan.
Other Nations
Nations that Yakko ambiguously referred to
The Former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Serbia & Montenegro), Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
The Former Czechoslovakia
The Czech Republic, and Slovakia
The Former Soviet Union
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Gaza Strip, West Bank
North Korea, South Korea
The Island of Borneo
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands
Nations that Yakko forgot
Andorra, Burkina, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Cote d’Iviore, Equatorial Guinea, The Holy See, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States of Micronesia, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa
New (since Jan 1993) nations that are not in Yakko’s song
Eritrea (seceded from Ethiopia)
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geograph photographs of every grid square
Posted by RAH on May 5, 2008
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Cyclone Nargis hits Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)
Posted by RAH on May 5, 2008
Satellite picture from Flickr
Photographs from the BBC - click on the picture below for more.
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Fantastic Light
Posted by RAH on May 2, 2008
Last Sunday, just before dusk, the evening sun sliced the landscape in half. I’m no photographer but my camera managed to catch these, which don’t quite reflect the impact of the live picture.
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Revision - it’s back again!!!
Posted by RAH on May 1, 2008
You can find some tips and links below the pictures. But in the end you have to find the best way for yourself.
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Maasai Marathon Road Run and Interview
Posted by RAH on April 7, 2008
Six Maasai warriors have travelled from their remote rural village in Tanzania to the UK to run the Flora London Marathon.
The aim is to raise enough money to provide the village with clean water. This will cost between £20,000 and £60,000.
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