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Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England

Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England

A masterful portrait of the landscape and history of Portuguese Americans the places they call home.

2018

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The Texas Popular Vote: A Flip from Blue to Red

We’re leading up to a look at the importance of Texas’ electoral votes in the next post but we’ll look at the popular vote first.

Dec 30, 2022

The Texas Popular Vote: A Flip from Blue to Red

Dec 30, 2022

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The One Minute Geographer: One of the Best Science Books I Have Read

The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Jan 9

The One Minute Geographer: One of the Best Science Books I Have Read

Jan 9

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The One Minute Geographer: The Alaska Top Ten

A Huge State. Alaska is about one-fifth the size of the continental USA — it’s two-and-a-half times the size of Texas. The dimensions of…

Dec 12, 2023

The One Minute Geographer: The Alaska Top Ten

Dec 12, 2023

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The Quantastic Journal

The One-Minute Geographer: The Andes

Continuing our series on Latin America, we’ll start this overview of Latin America’s mountains by asking how they compare to other…

Sep 4

Mt. Alpamayo, Peru (19,511 ft, 5,947 m). Photo by Frank R 1981, on Wikipedia.

Sep 4

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Pablo Escobar’s Terror in Colombia

A Review of The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Aug 30

Pablo Escobar’s Terror in Colombia

Aug 30

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The Quantastic Journal

The One-Minute Geographer: Territorial Giants and Microstates in Latin America

The Size of Latin American Nations

Aug 21

Map of Brazil overlaid on the United States. Map from The World Factbook posted at openrivers.lib.umn.edu

Aug 21

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Curated Newsletters

The One Minute Geographer: The Largest Islands in the 48 States

We started this series of posts about the largest islands in the United States and looked at a few islands in Alaska where 38 of the…

Aug 9

The One Minute Geographer: The Largest Islands in the 48 States

Aug 9

Jim Fonseca
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The Orange Journal

The One-Minute Geographer: Nature Close Up

A Photo Essay: Recently my family went to Sarasota Jungle Gardens in Florida, a combination nature park and small animal zoo. I took plenty…

Aug 9

The One-Minute Geographer: Nature Close Up

Aug 9

Jim Fonseca
in
The Quantastic Journal

The One-Minute Geographer: Populations of Latin American Nations

We’ll continue this series on Latin America with a look at the size of the population of Latin America and its component nations. There are…

Jul 31

Photo in Cartagena, Colombia by Jose Fuentes on unsplash.com

Jul 31

Jim Fonseca
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The Quantastic Journal

The One-Minute Geographer: In Search of Latin America

Do we really know what Latin America is, and is it a proper phrase to use? When I was a geography student eons ago, I took a course called…

Jul 25

Street scene in San Miguel de Allende Mexico by Jezael Melgoza on unsplash.com

Jul 25

Jim Fonseca

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Geography professor (retired) writes The One Minute Geographer featuring This Fragile Earth. Top writer in Transportation and, in past months, Travel.

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