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Madagascar, the fourth-largest island in the world, is shaped like the footprint of a left foot. From North to South it measures 1500 km and 580 km from East to West. Mountains criss-cross the island with a crest line that compartmentalizes the country into different territories where the vegetation varies strikingly.
Although it lies only 400 kms off the coast of Mozambique, Madagascar is not exactly an African country. It is a perfect blend of Africa and Asia, from which it was separated by the continental drift.The landscape is characterized by red laterite savannah, highlands and plateaus (Tampoketsa, Horombe, etc.) with lands of dormant volcanoes, cliffs that crash down into the Indian Ocean, forests that have certainly diminished in size but remain virgin in certain spots like Mosaola, canyons and bush, pristine beaches, mangrove swamps and reefs...
Includes a video of Madagascar and a map of Madagascar.
Located between the Apenines and the Tyrrhenian Coast, Tuscany offers visitors irresistible marvels.
Let us discover Tuscany through the vineyards of Chianti, over the lands of the de Médicis and the greatest painters and sculptors: those of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento.
In Florence, but also in Siena, Tuscany became a powerful driving force in this artistic flowering. Therefore, one can see talents blossom like Sandro Botticelli, Filippo Brunelleschi, Luca della Robia, Donatello, and (whose pupil was the young Da Vinci), Domenico Guirlandaio, Filippo and Filippino Lippi...
Naturally, this generation produced other geniuses who flourished during the Cinquecento, which was marked by many more styles, including the influences of antiquity, mannerism, realism and naturalism. The art of the fresco was at its height with the works of Michelangelo, Raphael and Da Vinci.
Shopping in Tuscany
Covering 8% of France, Aquitaine is its third-largest region. It is part of a vast tertiary and quaternary sedimentary structure laid out between the southern border of the Massif Central and the Pyrenees in the South.Endowed with more than 200 kilometers of coastline, Aquitaine boasts fine sand dunes (Pilat), beaches, and coastal ponds. The Gironde Estuary is the largest in Europe, and the Silver Coast, the vast plain of the Landes region, is set with a fringe of maritime pine forests responsible for maintaining the interior dunes...
With a surface area of a million square kilometers, of which 96% lies in arid zones, Egypt is composed of both Lower Egypt (the Nile Delta), Upper Egypt, which stretches from the Valley of the Nile south of Cairo up to Aswan, and Nubia (from Aswan to the Sudanese border).
“Egypt is the gift of the Nile” according to Herodotus. Without the Nile, Egypt would not have been able to develop, and it would have remained an arid land. The river is itself the fruit of the Blue Nile which flows from the Abyssinian plateau and empties out into the main river near Khartoum in Sudan, and the White Nile, whose source is located in the rivers of Africa.
Acadia, Cape Cod, Boston and Plymouth have attracted many emigrants in search of a new world or new wealth.
Giovanni da Verrazzano, discoverer of this region, sent by the King of France gave this region the name of New-France.
Little by little pionneers coming from France and England started settlement in this region inhabited by Indians.
Includes a video on the Mohicans.
Boston was built in 1630. The "City on the Hill" was built by John Winthrop, author of a sermon " a model of Christian Charity".
Other emigrants will build Newport, Portsmouth, Salem... Besides and to build a very serious foundation of the community, high level colleges were built: Harvard, Yale and later M.I.T..They brought to the United States one of their best politicians, presidents and business men.
These regions will be the place of the growth of Independance sentiment, abolitionnism, feminism and artistique creation.
Includes a video "Songs from slavery", Yale, Harvard...
Includes an article " Yale cradle of Presidents"
The strength of New England came from among other things its maritime coast, which had always been very frequented.
The new riches, the new territories towards the West created new needs; they consume and inventors are creating patents to meet their needs.
Includes a video of Newport Rhode Island.
Beginning of the XX century, the face of New England began to change.
The rise of union membership was evident. Personnalities will come to avoid oppression in Europe.
The region will follow politics with passion, especially when John F.Kennedy will become President...
Includes a video of Sacco & Vanzetti's case and a video of Marc Zuckerberg.
This mountainous country situated in the heart of Central Asia, located along the old “Silk Route” is a blending of ethnicities, cultures and different religions.
In 2000/1500 B.C., this was the throughway for Indo-European tribes descending into Punjab via the Hindu Kush mountains. Integrated afterward into the Persian Empire (into the Drangiana, Ariana and Arachosia provinces), it was next conquered by Alexander, who founded Alexandria, the future city of Kabul. Around 250 B.C., it became the independent Bactrian Kingdom, a Greco-Buddhist civilization, created from the meeting of diverse Indian and Greek elements.
In the 2nd century, the region was conquered by the Scythians, Indo-European nomads who descended from Central Asia, and blended into the Kuchan Empire until the 5th century. Afghanistan was then a point of diffusion of Mahayana Buddhism into China via the Caravan Trade Routes.
In November Sagaplanet celebrates Thanksging. A singular symbol of unity with the native Indians, the Thanksgiving holiday has over time become the symbol of American settlement and independence from the British.
With the United States so well-established as a nation, this holiday remains a marvelous opportunity for families and friends to gather together to enjoy a famous roast turkey meal...
Some populations had some aims, cultures, religion in common; sometimes they decided to gather themselves and create missions, orders. Very often they were moving from town to town, country to country , always with very strict laws or habits.
Here are some of them:
Knights of Malta
Navajos in the US
Ouïgours in China
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