INTERESTING MAPS
1. This map shows the world divided into 7 sections (each with a distinct color) with each section containing 1 billion people.
2. This map shows (in white) where 98 percent of Australia ‘s population lives.
3. It may not come as a surprise but more people live inside the circle than outside of it.
4. This map shows what is on the other side of the world from where you are standing. For the most part it will probably be water.
5. Apparently you can’t get Big Macs everywhere. This map shows (in red) the countries that have McDonalds.
6. This map shows the countries (in blue) where people drive on the left side of the road.
7. This map shows countries (in white) that England has never invaded. There are only 22 of them.
8. The line in this map shows all of the world’s Internet connections in 1969.
9. This map shows the countries that heavily restricted Internet access in 2013.
10. This map shows (in red) countries that were all Communist at one point in time.
11. This map shows (in red) the countries that don’t use the metric system.
12. This map shows (in blue) places where Google street view is available.
13. This map shows (in green) all the landlocked countries of the world.
14. This is a map of the all the rivers in the United States ..
15. And these are all the rivers that feed into the Mississippi River .
16. This is a map of the highest paid public employees in the United States .
17. This map shows how much space the United States would occupy on the moon.
18. This map shows the longest straight line you can sail. It goes from Pakistan all the way to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia for a total of 20,000 miles.
19. This is a map of 19th century shipping lanes that outlines the continents.
20. This map shows (in navy blue) every country that has ever operated an aircraft carrier.
21. This map highlights the countries (in red and orange) with the most skyscrapers.
22. This map shows (in red, orange, and yellow) the world’s largest donors of foreign aid with red being the biggest donor.
23. This map shows the most photographed places in the world.
24. And this map shows all the places where you can get eaten by a Great White shark!
Comments
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A MAP THAT SHOWS COUNTRIES THAT GROWS GMO CROPS.
One map shows the countries (22 in total) in white that were never invaded by England. I did not see Ethiopia in white. If memory is correct, after taking African history nearly 50 years ago, Ethiopia was invaded by Italy……. dont recall England being there.
Question: Why is England so relatively poor today after having plunder and robbed almost the entire globe.
We in the US can show much for the little we did.
The question about England being relatively poor, is a valid one ….. But, the additional sentence/statement will be answered in time. Time is the mother of truth. – Don’t assume because someone is going down the wrong road, that they are lost, they say. The military spending is a hint to the ultimate answer …
Check out a story about the military spending here – The money should stagger you … http://www.tomdispatch.com/
One great thing about an American education is that it forces one to “think” There is a major economic benefit behind American military spending and wars rarely found in print. One has to think it through. Major wars and battles were fought over Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Chile and many others. ..thousands died, millions in resources lost. ……..into what economic system were almost all of those countries heading? If they had succeeded what would have been the economic benefit/losses to the western capitalist world, including America…. and would we have had access to their natural resources and markets as we do now? Why is the US succeeding in grinding socialist Russia, and would be socialist Venezuela, Cuba and others into economic stagnation?
If you could think this through you will see the reason for our military power.
In a word: Imperialism …… comes to mind!!
Albert is reading too much US propaganda. American education does NOT force one to think. Where did you get that? America benefits from the brain drain of “under developed” countries to the detriment of those countries.
Here’s a famous quote by Howard Zinn, “American education is designed for us to know just enough to function, but not for us to realize that we don’t know much.”
America is “succeeding” is grinding Russia, Venezuela and Cuba into economic stagnation? I can tell you are an avid US tv watcher. Watching tv does not force one to think. It does exactly the opposite. It fools one into thinking he’s thinking. In actuality he’s being spoon fed his thoughts…
Here’s a excerpt from Brave New World Revisited (published 1958), In essence, we are living in this brave new world…
And now let us consider the case of the rich, industrialized and democratic society, in which, owing to the random but effective practice of dysgenics, IQ’s and physical vigor are on the decline.[…] Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure. […] This ideal man is the man who displays “dynamic conformity” (delicious phrase!) and an intense loyalty to the group, an unflagging desire to subordinate himself, to belong. […]
In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization — the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. […]
Thanks to compulsory education and the rotary press, the propagandist has been able, for many years past, to convey his messages to virtually every adult in every civilized country. Today, thanks to radio and television, he is in the happy position of being able to communicate even with unschooled adults and not yet literate children.
Children, as might be expected, are highly susceptible to propaganda. They are ignorant of the world and its ways, and therefore completely unsuspecting. Their critical faculties are undeveloped. The youngest of them have not yet reached the age of reason and the older ones lack the experience on which their new-found rationality can effectively work.[…]
“Children,” […] “are living, talking records of what we tell them every day.” And in due course these living, talking records of television commercials will grow up, earn money and buy the products of industry. “Think,” writes Mr. Clyde Miller ecstatically, “think of what it can mean to your firm in profits if you can condition a million or ten million children, who will grow up into adults trained to buy your product, as soldiers are trained in advance when they hear the trigger words, Forward March!” Yes, just think of it! And at the same time remember that the dictators and the would-be dictators have been thinking about this sort of thing for years, and that millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of children are in process of growing up to buy the local despot’s ideological product and, like well-trained soldiers, to respond with appropriate behavior to the trigger words implanted in those young minds by the despot’s propagandists.
You can read the book in its entirety here http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/
Gigi: “Albert is reading too much US propaganda. American education does NOT force one to think. Where did you get that?………………….”
Lets look from the bottom up rather than top down. Of all the latest technological or scientific development,, whether by foreign or US born individuals, where did they get that technical/scientific schooling? Could think of Steve Jaffe, the ….., computer etc. The British claim the computer was discovered there during WW11, but where and by who was it developed. You will agree creating new things require the ability to think. Do you know of any major technica/scientific advancement in recent times outside the US, without US input.
Lets look at medical technology. In the coming years medical technology/computers will replace over 50 percent of the medical doctors because a human cannot remember all the thousands of symptons, diseases,treatments, and medication to treat patients….but a computer can. In addition with a micro chip permanently inserted in a human the doctor in his office coud diagnose/treat a patient thousands of miles away. A multiple of advance medical procedures are in place. Where/ how do you think these creative ideas were generated.
Have you ever heard about “case studies” in a good university with an MBA program? The ideal place where students are taught to solve complex business problems by THINKING.
It is no accident the top 12-15 US graduate facilities are unmathed on the planet with the latest cutting edge in technology resources.
By the way my background is accounting and finance………but I can hold my own in medical technology, life sciences and other things because an American education has taught me how to think.