Tag: Soviet Union

  • Cuba – World Leader in Sustainable, Organic Farming

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    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

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    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

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    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…