“Merry geographic Christmas to you!” (The Hindu)

The Hindu, Young World supplement, published this article on Tuesday 22 December 2009.

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Merry Geographic Christmas

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Copyright: The Hindu, 2009

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“Who greets the new year first?” (The Hindu)

The Hindu’s Young World supplement published this article on Tuesday, 29 December 2009, on page3.

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The blog entry for this topic is here.

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Geography and Happy New Year

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Copyright: The Hindu, 2009

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Who gets to say “Happy New Year” first? (with link to reader responses)

[A link to reader responses is at the end of this posting]

It’s all a matter of longitude.

Or is it?

You have all had to study about latitudes and longitudes.  BORINNNNG!! Right? Continue reading…

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Merry geographic Christmas to you! (With link to reader responses)

You go around many places in India around Christmas time. You will hear songs about reindeer, sleigh, and about a “white Christmas.” You will probably see Christmas scenes put up using dolls etc. but showing “snow” – white cotton fluffs, Most of us have never even seen snow! [A link to reader responses is at the end of this posting] Continue reading…

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