Note to visitors and students, I will be migrating over to a new domain www.martinsaphug.com I will gradually be adding much of the same, and new content to this new site, but will leave this site up as well. Read More

New 2010-2011 site in the works…

Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jencaruso/4366527297/

This relates directly to our discussion about downtown Baltimore and what could be done about abandoned buildings.  Do you think demolition is the answer, or are there other alternatives that might work better to revitalize a city? "Even when the demolitions are complete, Detroit will still have a huge problem on ...Read More

Detroit to tear down 10,000 abandoned properties

Link to original article .... here. ZAGREB — Serbian President Boris Tadic arrived in Croatia on Wednesday for talks with his Croat counterpart Ivo Josipovic in their first meeting since the latter took office in February, national radio reported. "The two presidents will discuss improving Serbo-Croatian bilateral ties," the Serbian presidency said ...Read More

Serb, Croat presidents to meet on improving ties

Just a quick note: Chapter 7 Quiz corrections will be due Wednesday March 24th. Chapter 8 Quizzes will be distributed tomorrow (Tuesday) and will be due Friday March 26th. Thursday after school you will have the opportunity to re-take a map quiz.  I will let you know which quiz you can re-take by ...Read More

Update – Corrections, Map Quizzes etc.

Found this map of the biggest and deadliest earthquakes.  They are not identical ... why not? Click here to go to the map Read More

Map – World’s biggest earthquakes since 1900

I stumbled onto this recent news story about these extremely detailed images of the earth recently released by NASA.  I wish I could find an even higher resolution version of these images, but they are big enough to relish the detail.  Both images are linked, click on them to see ...Read More

Beautiful high-resolution images of the Earth

As per our earlier discussion on cultural diffusion via club music... Read More

Roots of Baltimore Club

Hello all, as we are in the process of creating review pages for Chapters 2 and 3, I wanted to provide an update on uploading media.  I changed the permissions so that each of you can now create pages, and you can upload media to add to your page.  To do ...Read More

Update: Adding media files to your page

I stumbled upon this tonight - thought it was an interesting example of globalization and cultural diffusion.  Basically the video shows every time someone tweets "Good Morning" on twitter. GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. ...Read More

Globalization: “Good Morning” Twitter Video