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World Conflicts Today is valuable both for the understandable explanations of complex conflicts it offers and for its timeliness. Recent updates to the product give users the latest developments in the ten important and much-discussed conflicts it covers. However, World Conflicts Today goes beyond merely reporting the latest current events by helping users place new developments in a meaningful and interesting historical context. Check out World Conflicts Today to discover:

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  Teaching Idea: Cricket & Colonization
Identifying popular sports can tell a lot about a country. For example, a country’s environment clearly plays a role: skiing is popular in snowy Sweden, sailing is popular in sunny Bahamas, etc. Some popular sports have deep cultural roots, like karate or sumo wrestling in Japan, while others are evidence of global connectivity, such as the spread of baseball and basketball from the United States. Did you know that a country’s popular sports can also say something about its colonial past?


 
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  Regional Quiz
How much do you know about the region of central and south Asia? Test your knowledge with these tidbits from CultureGrams:
  • Many Afghan farmers grow which profitable but illegal crop?

  • Which language has a history of being written in runic, Perso-Arabic, Latin-based, and Cyrillic alphabets before returning to the Latin-based alphabet that is now used?

  • Most Tajiks belong to which division of Islam?

  • Mount Everest is located in which country?

  • India and Pakistan have fought two wars over which region?
                                                           Take the full quiz.

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World Holidays
Holidays provide a great way to introduce students to the
culture and history of a country. "Observe" a world holiday in your classroom by asking students to research the holiday's origins or learn more about a particular aspect of the country.
Read about world holidays occuring this month.

 
       
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  Focus on a U.S. State
Minnesota is known as the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, but there are as many as 12,000 lakes in the state. Where did they come from? Giant glaciers (sheets of ice) covered the state thousands of years ago. They ground down the earth and formed lake beds. When the glaciers melted, these lake beds filled with water. In total, Minnesota’s lakes have 90,000 miles (144,841 km) of shoreline. This is more than the shorelines of California, Florida, and Hawaii combined!

Here are some more interesting facts:
  • Minnesotans have one of the longest life expectancies, second only to Hawaiians, in the nation.

  • International Falls is considered the coldest place in the continental United States with an average annual temperature of 36°F (2°C).

  • Two brothers from Minneapolis invented in-line skates to practice hockey during the off-season.

  • Lake Itasca is the source of the Mississippi River, which travels 2,552 miles (4,107 km) to the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Learn more.

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Photo Gallery Pick


Agra, India

Women's Dress: As demonstrated by these visitors to the Taj Mahal, Indian women generally wear a saree (a long length of fabric draped in variations that can represent socioeconomic status and religious affiliation) or a colorful pantsuit with a knee-length shirt. Western-style clothing is common among men, but not as popular among women. Because the tomb is a Muslim holy site, visitors are requested to remove their shoes.

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