Monday, September 25, 2023: The music city on the Mississippi! Info: Where the city of over 600,000 people is located today (1.3 million in the metropolitan region), the Chickasaw once lived. The town became rich thanks to the cotton plantations and shipping traffic on the Mississippi. After the abolition of slavery, cotton and wood remained…
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Hello from Anchorage and Turnagain Arm
Monday, July 24, 2023: Bright colors in the city, blue in the ice and gold in the creek! Info: Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city with nearly 300,000 people and about 100,000 more in the surrounding area – in total, more than half of Alaska’s population of 736,000. It is equidistant from Tokyo, New York City…
Hello from Thunder Bay
Tuesday, May 30, 2023: Of sleeping giants, thunderbirds and a bear. Info: Thunder Bay is a city of just over 100,000 people, and like every city in North America, it seems to be much bigger, simply because everything is so far apart. Even with the suburbs, there are not more than 120,000 inhabitants. Thunder Bay…
Hello from Mora in Sweden
Wednesday, August 3, 2022: Mora at Lake Siljan Video: https://youtu.be/nH_BxJN1KmE Info: Lake Siljan owes its existence to a meteorite impact 370 million years ago. The shape of the crater landscape which has a diameter of 55 km can still be seen from above. Nowadays there are three lakes in the original caldera. They were formed…
Hello from Vaenern in Sweden
Monday, August 1, 2022: Vaenern and Mariestad Info: Lake Vaenern has got a size of 5,500 km2 which makes it to the largest lake in Sweden and in the EU as well. Compared to all European lakes it’s number three. During the Ice Age it was connected to the sea. When the glaciers went back,…