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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC News, Mar 23, 2012

Geography Bee Champ From Port Jeff Finds Himself in State Championship
Patch.com
By Lon Cohen Port Jefferson Middle School student Boris Botchev was congratulated by teacher and district spelling bee organizer Mr. Giannusa on advancing to the state championship of the National Geographic Bee. Syntax Quick: Which city on the Great ...
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Kansas Geography Students Compete at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and ...
KSAL
By Samantha Kenner Samantha Kenner The Kansas winner will advance to the national competition, held at the National Geographic's Washington, DC, headquarters on May 22 - 24. The top geography students from across the state will gather at the Eisenhower ...
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TSA eighth-grader will compete in state geography bee
Sumter Item
Elawyne Apol, daughter of Michael and Rachelle Apol, was recently named a South Carolina National Geographic Bee Semifinalist by National Geographic Society. The Thomas Sumter Academy eighth-grader will compete in the state's geography bee on March 30.
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National Geographic reveals the first images of the complete Titanic wreckage site
The Verge
Numerous exploratory missions have been made to the wreckage over the years, but with the help of a new sonar survey map the first comprehensive exploration of the site has been completed and National Geographic has the pictures.
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Spinning Wastewater Into Gold: Imagine H2O's 2012 Water Innovation Prize Winners
National Geographic
Brian Clark Howard is a writer and editor with NationalGeographic.com. He was formerly an editor at The Daily Green and E/The Environmental Magazine and has contributed to many publications, including TheAtlantic.com, FastCompany.com, MailOnline.com, ...
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Giant Map Finds Way to Concord
WVNS-TV
By David Williams, Web Producer - email Beginning in the last week of March, Concord University will become the latest institution to host one of National Geographic's giant traveling maps of North America. Arriving to campus just in time for the March ...
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Post the PureView world on the National Geographic app
Nokia Conversations
One of my favourite apps is the National Geographic Photo of the Day app for Nokia Lumia – and the Nokia N9. The photos might not be in 41-megapixel glory, but they'll brighten up your day. These are some of my favourites: This snowy owl was captured ...
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Macksvile student knows his way around the globe
St. John News Online
By Anonymous Seventh Grade Macksvile student, Jarrod Kuckelman, knows his way around a globe as one of the semifinalist eligible to compete in the 2012 Kansas National geographic Bee sponsored by Google and Plum Creek. Jarrod is the second semifinalist ...
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New Apple iPad set to be on top of the world
Siliconrepublic.com
A National Geographic team, coupled with scientists from Montana State University, will be attempting to relive a successful 1963 expedition to the pinnacle of Mount Everest, and they'll be sharing their alpine progress with the world via real-time ...
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Science finds animal kingdom crushers
NTNews.com.au
An international project funded by the National Geographic Society found that salties have more powerful jaws than any other creature. They even have a better bite than the hyena, which can crunch through bone as if it's matchwood.
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We Hear: Matt Damon, Ira Glass, Mena Suvari and more...
Boston Herald
By Inside Track • That Red Sox [team stats] superfan Matt Damon narrates theNational Geographic special “Inside Fenway Park [map]: An icon at 100,” a documentary about the old ball yard. Boston's WGBH will air the PBS special Tuesday night at 9.
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Mayo Clinic researchers will monitor Everest climbers
Post-Bulletin
Rather, they will stay at base camp and monitor a variety of health measures from climbers who will make the trek on an expedition with National Geographic, The North Face and Montana State University. Researchers are interested in heart disease, ...
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Magazine unveils first ever complete views of Titanic wreck
DigitalJournal.com
Stunning images showing the legendary wreck of RMS Titanic are to be published in April's edition of National GeographicMagazine. Some of the images show an unrecognisable twisted metal mass but some show clear pictures of the whole ship.
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DigitalJournal.com
Angry Birds Space promotions are literally out of this world
Digital Media Wire
Elements of the rollout for the smash hit's sequel include a groundbreaking content deal with Walmart, bonus branded levels promoting Samsung, an tie-in with National Geographic Books, and video from an actual astronaut from onboard the International...
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Digital Media Wire
New sonar images show Titanic in its ocean grave 100 years on – PHOTOS
Irish Central
The April edition of National Geographic Magazine will feature these images for the first time to honor the centenary of the tragic ship's sinking. Previously, images of this nature, taken far under the Atlantic Ocean's surface, were dark and dim but ...
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Weymouth fisherman is on new TV series 'Wicked Tuna'
Wicked Local
The 10-part series premieres at 10 pm April 1 on the National GeographicChannel. Other shows of this ilk – “Ice Road Truckers” and “Deadliest Catch” have been ratings gold for other networks. NatGeo is banking on the same results for “Wicked Tuna.
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Dept. Of Meaningless Lists: We're A Top Movie Town, Apparently
Philebrity.com
According to National Geographic Traveler (as reported by CBS 3) Philadelphia is one of the silver screen's top destinations, whatever that means. That title is fine by us, but the best part of all of this is the reporting by KYW.
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Angry Birds Space - review
The Guardian (blog)
... Earth from the International Space Station, its launch day saw the company turn Seattle's Space Needle tower into a giant slingshot, and the game itself is being promoted through partnerships with NASA, National Geographic, Nickelodeon and Samsung.
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The Guardian (blog)
Cal Poly Eco-marathon Entry Combines Skills For Super Mileage
EarthTechling
by National Geographic Society Bringing together students majoring in mechanical, material, and aerospace engineering, as well as computer science, the Cal Poly Supermileage Vehicle Team combines all these disciplines to produce the most efficient ...
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Deals: Arctic itineraries
Newsday
Click here Deals: Arctic itineraries 11 m ago By THE WASHINGTON POST Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic are offering free international airfare and discounts of up to $500 a person on select 2012 Arctic itineraries. For example, on the 13-day ...
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Bobcat Sighted in Southington
Patch.com
"Bobcats are elusive and noctural," according to a description provided inNational Geographic. The animals, also known as wildcats, are not commonly spotted in Connecticut, although they are native to the area and can often be found in the northeast ...
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New software tool to assess global freshwater stress
R & D Magazine
An Oak Ridge National Laboratory paper published in Computers & Geosciences outlines a process that might help. "Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis," said ...
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Beautiful new cave discovered in Quang Binh Province
SGGP
Son Doong Cave has been recognised as the biggest cave in the world by National Geographic. The new cave is called Va Cave and is located among a group of eight other caves. The team of explorers discovered it after a study and research of the site in ...
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SGGP
Angry Birds maker heads into space
Financial Times
Walmart is promoting Angry Birds toys heavily in 3000 of its stores, National Geographic is publishing an “educational” book about the mysteries of the universe and Rovio even worked with Nasa, the US space agency, to film a promotional video on the ...
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Health and Fitness Menu
Portland Monthly (blog)
Award-winning National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry plumbs the ocean deep. On Tuesday, March 27, the award-winning National Geographic photojournalist Brian Skerry will talk at OMSI's super-popular Science Pub at the Bagdad in preview of his ...
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Portland Monthly (blog)
Southbury Daily Briefing: Mar. 23
Patch.com
The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National GeographicSociety. 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City. Weather information taken from the National Weather Service. Today in History compiled ...
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Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #7 – News Watch
By Steve Boyes
See the last “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week” blog post on National Geographic News Watch: Link: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/15/top-25-wild-bird-photographs-of-the-week-6/. The Wild Bird Trust was ...
News Watch
A Brief History of April Fools' Day (No Joke) – Nick News | Linda ...
By haguekr
And according to National Geographic News, it was common during those celebrations for people to play pranks and pretend to be someone else. But April Fools Day's roots aren't just European. Other cultures have springtime holidays that ...
Nick News | Linda Ellerbee | Nick.com
Mongols, Ancient China and the Silk Road: "Lost" Great Wall of ...
By Hans van Roon
"I would risk saying that it is the largest human-made structure or artifact in all of Mongolia," he added. "It is amazing to me that it is not already much better analyzed." From National Geographic "Daily News" March 19, 2012. Posted by Hans ...
Mongols, Ancient China and the Silk Road
Fish Talk in the News – Friday, March 23 | Talking Fish
By Talking Fish
If so, keep a look out for “Wicked Tuna,” a show premiering on the National Geographic channel on April 1 that will follow boats out of Gloucester fishing for bluefin tuna. The Boston Globe wrote about the show this week, saying that it not only ...
Talking Fish
Latest news: March 23, 2012 | Restore the Mississippi River Delta
By Kevin Chandler
By Brian Handewerk, National Geographic News. March 22, 2012. "As they walk the sands of Orange Beach, Alabama, T. Prabhakar Clement and Joel Hayworth have no difficulty finding traces of the Deepwater Horizon disaster—in fact, the ...
Restore the Mississippi River Delta
Off topic: White-out news, using math to find Waldo, deep-sea dive ...
By Levi Sumagaysay
We've talked newspaper blackouts, now here's white-out news. Finding Waldo with an algorithm. (via Mental Floss) National Geographic's information central as filmmaker James Cameron takes a dive to the ocean's deepest point. And can a ...
GMSV
Media news station attempts to unravel enigma of bird deaths | The ...
By The Extinction Protocol
2012 and Earthchanges News events. Skip to content ... On Thursday, an all-new National Geographic Special will debut explaining the Beebe event as well as several other mass animal deaths that occurred last winter. The show, “Omens of ...
The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond
Dear James Cameron: Hurry up and dive already! | MNN - Mother ...
By Michael d'Estries
I've got the news alerts set, the Facebook and Twitter feeds open, and I'm continuously trolling National Geographic's slick site covering all the action at sea. Hell, I'm even reading the daily marine reports from the Captain of the Mermaid ...
Lifestyle News
#FriFotos: Spring Fever - Intelligent Travel - National Geographic
By Intelligent Travel
National Geographic Society. P.O. Box 98199. Washington, DC 20090-8199            800-647-5463 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            800-647-5463      end_of_the_skype_highlighting      . Lat/Lon: 38.90531943278526, -77.0376992225647. Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. Learn More » · Subscriptions .... The Radar: How to Teach Abroad, 10 Great “Underground” Bars, Allergy-Friendly Getaways. The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the Web. Got Radar? Follow… Photo by Leena Roy, Your Shot ...
Intelligent Travel
Crocodiles Have Strongest Bite Ever Measured, Hands-on Tests Show
Crocodiles may be the world's champion chompers, killing with the greatest bite force ever directly measured for living animals, a new study says. In fact, their ...
news.nationalgeographic.com/.../120315-crocodiles-bite-force...
Spring Break Arizona, Part 2: Off the Beaten Path – Intelligent Travel
23, 2012 (1) · Photo by Andrew Evans, National Geographic Traveler .... The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the Web. Got Radar?
intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/.../spring-break-arizo...
Cherry-Picked - Intelligent Travel - National Geographic
Susan O'Keefe, editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine, .... 2012 Cherry Blossom Festival Kicks Off – NBC4 Washington - Kite news from all around ...
intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/.../cherry-picked-how...
Arizona, Part 1 - Intelligent Travel - National Geographic
Photo by Andrew Evans, National Geographic Traveler .... The Radar: Top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the Web. Got Radar? Follow…
intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/.../last-minute-spring-...
Angry Birds Space - News Bites - National Geographic Kids
National Geographic is teaming up with NASA and Angry Birds to create a book called Angry Birds Space that will be a companion book to a new Angry Birds ...
kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/.../angry-birds-space.html
First Day of Spring - News Bites - National Geographic Kids
Learn more about the equinox on National Geographic News. See pictures of flowers in bloom on National Geographic Kids. Photograph by Mario Guzmán,...
kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/.../first-day-of-spring.html
Venus and Jupiter Snuggle Up - News Bites - National Geographic ...
Read news stories on the National Geographic Kids News Bites blog! ... Read more about the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter on National Geographic News.
kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/.../venus-and-jupiter-snuggl...
News: Nat Geo Spring 2012 Everest Expedition - National ...
Photo: Everest Photograph by Cory Richards. As seen from Lhotse, a team of climbers ascending Everest creates a spectacular line of light on the mountain...
adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/.../news-nat-geo-sprin...
Andrew Hangs Out With Penguins on South Georgia - News Bites ...
Andrew Evans, National Geographic's Digital Nomad, recently spent some time penguin-watching on South Georgia Island, which is east of Argentina's Terra ...
kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/.../andrew-hangs-out-with-...
News Bites - National Geographic Kids: March 14, 2012 Archives
Read news stories on the National Geographic Kids News Bites blog! ... Read more about the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter on National Geographic News.
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