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Just released by the City of Alexandria (VA) Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities’ Horticulture and Natural Resources Section is this survey (.pdf) of the native plants of Alexandria. The survey was conducted from 2002 to 2007 and yielded a total of 810 native species (including infra-specific taxa and hybrids) representing 374 genera and [...]

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Happy New Year, everyone! Very interesting animation of the growth of Wal-Mart’s store locations. It would be interesting to see an accompanying real-time graph with some statistical interpretation, such as rate of growth, sales volume, revenue, etc. Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

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Fascinating first hand views of bedrock geology under lower Manhattan. At Ground Zero, Scenes From the Ice Age – NYTimes.com

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Not too long ago, I ran across this line from the Adagia by Wallace Stevens: “Life is an affair of people not places. But for me life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.” I should quickly add that I have never read Wallace Stevens and am completely unfamiliar with his work. [...]

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Well sure. It’s a blog about geography in the loosest sense. It’s a blog about space, place, location and, most of all, perspectives on those things. Each place is unique, but just as each place can be viewed from multiple vantage points, there are multiple perspectives on the relationships between places.

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