Migrations from Africa through Panama - a wild ride

If you read the details of these journeys carefully, they are truly amazing.

How Panama Became the Most Treacherous Crossing Point for Migrants on a Long Journey to the U.S.

https://time.com/5340697/migration-america-panama/?fbclid=IwAR2P69UOrfDSC36crQBg40PI01OO5S4Aq6rOj9NVaFRj5e-9jMnij2zEKpY

Mapping New Granada

This is an article about a Spanish cartographer Vicente Talledo y Rivera, who mapped the Kingdom of New Granada (modern Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama) in 1814

La increíble historia de Vicente Talledo, el gran cartógrafo español olvidado
https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-vicente-talledo-gran-cartografo-espanol-olvidado-201910260105_noticia.html

The urban renewal that made today's Paris

Haussman was the guy who between 1853-70 led the transformation of beat-up, run down Paris into the city of lights and public spaces that we see today. Public streets and spaces were illuminated at night by gaslights and it became the City of Light. He also gave Paris the radial grid street pattern shown below.

Haussman's Paris Renovation in Under 3 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-_mVRG2IDI

The EU Common Agricultural Policy

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy or CAP is by far the largest expenditure in the EU budget. It is meant to help farmers stay afloat and gives subsidies, but in a different way from US farm subsidies.

How exactly does the Common Agricultural Policy work?
https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/360-how-exactly-does-the-common-agricultural-policy-work_D004-0003_ev

Padraig Carmody pushing to keep Geography a mandatory subject in Irish schools

Padraig Carmody is a great writer and geographer

Padraig Carmody and Kevin Lynch: ‘More than ever, children need to learn geography’
https://taxviewnews.com/padraig-carmody-and-kevin-lynch-more-than-ever-children-need-to-learn-geography/

Marie Tharp pioneer of ocean cartography

Marie Tharp: Uncovering the Secrets of the Ocean Floor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgfYjS0OTWw

How the end of WW1 led to the start of WW2

Nice 15-min explanation of how the end of WW1 led to the start of WW2

1919-1939: The Treaty of Versailles, the truce that led to another war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKAe3SzC5E