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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.

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The One Minute Geographer: The Amazing Importance of the Erie Canal, Part 2

We’re continuing our list of important aspects of the Erie Canal.

5 min readJul 23, 2022

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The One Minute Geographer: This Fragile Earth (3) Land, Water and Other Hemispheres

We’ll start with the two exciting spheres: The land and water hemispheres! The earth’s surface is about 70% water, 30% land. (Technically…

3 min readFeb 6, 2022

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The One Minute Geographer: Maine’s Population Problem

We talked about the size of Maine in terms of area, but not too much yet about its population. Maine 2020’s population of 1,360,000 is…

4 min readJan 3, 2022

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The One Minute Geographer: The Great Plains — The Good Wind and the Bad Wind

More from the One Minute Geographer about the 100-degree meridian and how it relates to wind, wind power generation and tornadoes.

3 min readOct 20, 2021

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Signs, Symbols and Stones: The Portuguese American Urban Ethnic Landscape #6

I could jokingly call this post the “Pilgrims vs. Portuguese.” We’ll focus on three monuments in Massachusetts: Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrim…

5 min readJun 7, 2021

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The One Minute Geographer: All About Rhode Island

Rhode Island: The smallest state in area and maybe the ‘bluest’ state? Here are a series of five short posts that I’ve organized in…

3 min read18 hours ago

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The One Minute Geographer: All About Rhode Island

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A Portuguese Heritage District: A Proposal for New Bedford

New Bedford, Massachusetts, the old ‘whaling capital of the world,’ as we know from Moby Dick, is looking to redevelop its downtown and…

9 min read6 days ago

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A Portuguese Heritage District: A Proposal for New Bedford

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The One Minute Geographer: All About Connecticut

A revised post with links to the series of 9 posts on Connecticut. The link at the end of each post will connect you to the next one if you…

4 min readApr 9, 2024

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More Golden Quadrilaterals, This Time Based on Sides

My previous posts on Medium introduced a new type of Golden Triangle — the Golden Right Triangle — based on its three angles in the…

5 min readApr 5, 2024

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More Golden Quadrilaterals, This Time Based on Sides

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The One Minute Geographer: Where Are The Largest Islands of the United States?

None of the hundreds of islands in the United States are large in area by world standards. The biggest island in the US ranks 75th in the…

8 min readMar 30, 2024

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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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