Archive for November, 2008
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008Eager to try out Google’s new Ancient Rome 3D layer, I plugged in the Space Navigator and headed for Rome as it looked in 320 A.D.
The 3D Rome layer consists of 250 landmarks and an additional 5,000+ buildings and Google recommends a computer with “Dual-Core 2.0GHz CPU + 3 GB RAM + High End GPU [...]
The northern Oceania country of Papua New Guinea.
Monday, November 24th, 2008This is a post about a country that I suppose is not mentioned very much, why well who knows as I am about to invite you into this extra ordinary country, lets begin then.
Papua New Guinea is a country that belongs to half of the Island, New Guinea, which is situated just north of Australia. [...]
Dubai’s Incredible Palm Islands
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Take a virtual detour over the city of Dubai and you’ll see an incredible sight, two of the largest artificial islands in the world jutting out from the UAE coastline in the shape of giant palm trees.
The islands are the Palm Jebel Ali on the left and the Palm Jumeirah on the right. A third, and [...]
The wonderful country of Northern Ireland, U.K
Thursday, November 20th, 2008This is my post of one of the countries from the British Isles, Northern Island. This country is a unit of the United Kingdom, it compromises of six counties of Ulster.
This country is situated north to north-east of mainland Ireland. It is suppose to be a south-westward extension of Scotland and it is separated by [...]
The northern European country of Iceland.
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Iceland is a large island country, it is situated southwards of the Artic Circle, within the north-east of the Atlantic Ocean and between the countries of Greenland and Great Britain. The island is 460 kilometres or 285 miles in length and in width the island is 280 kilometres or 174 miles. Amazingly enough the settlers [...]
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.