sides of the pond, and US Men's Soccer is once again searching for a new manager. There's a ton going on in the international soccer world, so today Luis Miguel Echegaray helps us break it all down, and lets us know who he thinks will capture the crown in Europe and the Americas....
In developing relations with Africa, there are five lines that China will not cross: no interference in African countries’ choice of a development path that fits their national conditions; no interference in African countries’ internal affairs; no imposition of its will on African countries; no ...
Security experts warn that 02turmoil in the leadership and 02management of intelligence agencies may also lead to a less visible but highly 02damaging defence decoupling C of the relationship between Americas spies and the secret services of its allies.The votes in the United Nations marking the t...
Digging the Culebra Cut, the place where the canal cuts through the Continental Divide, was one of the major engineering marvels of the whole construction. It remains the narrowest place along the canal route, and the reason that the canal is a one-way traffic only operation. This next pict...
Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began ...
The Geography of Panama and the Panama Canal The Panama Canal is one of the greatest works of engineering and modern achievements of mankind. An all-water passage through the continental divide of the Panama region had been suggested since early Spanish colonial times of the 16th century. Today...
The main span of the Baluarte Bridge is 520 meters in length and is 402 meters above the river (rather than the 390 m in the picture below), making it not only the tallest cable-stayed bridge in the world, but the cable-stayed bridge with the longest span in the Americas. ...
TheMissouri Compromise, 1821: applied to what are now Iowa, western and southern Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, the part of Kansas then belonging to the US, the northern part of Oklahoma, and the parts of Montana andWyominglying east of the Continental Divide; explicitly repealed in 1850,...
In that sense, India is more akin to the European Union in the continental scale of its diversity. The Bengalis, the Kannadigas, the Keralites, the Odias, the Punjabis, and the Tamils, to name just a few peoples, all have extraordinarily rich literary and cultural histories, each ...
Olen Netteburg (far left,) his wife Danae and their five children Lyol, Zane, Addison, Juniper, and Piper on the Continental Divide Trail. Danae Netteburg “We realize, a lot of people can’t do it,” Danae told CNN Travel back in August. “They [either] don’t have the time or...