Tag: Soviet Union

  • Cuba – World Leader in Sustainable, Organic Farming

    This is Part one of  Marcella Pedersen’s five part series on her trip to Cuba.  As someone who is interested in all kinds of farming, Pedersen made it a priority to visit Cuba’s organic sustainable farms.  In this article she provides a little history on how and why organic farms were established and what makes Cuba…

  • Google Earth Reveals Huge Pentagram in Kazakhstan

    Al Arabia posted an article about the flurry of conspiracy theories cropping up around the image of a huge pentagram etched into the ground in a remote area of Kazakhstan that surfaced on Google maps. The five-pointed star measures 366 meters in diameter and is situated on the southern shore of the Upper Tobol Reservoir in the…

  • 50 Year Anniversary Of First Woman In Space

    Victoria Loguinova-Yakovleva’s article in The China Post marks the 50 year anniversary of Valentina Terehkova’s historic flight: On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space…She remains the only woman ever to have made a solo space flight. In April 1962, officials narrowed down the candidates for the flight to…