April 22 – Anniversary of the Global Selfie Earth Day

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nTherenis also a delightful video to watch recapping just a few of the morenthan 50,000 selfies sent in.
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• nHeren is the website of a guy who spent 11 years walking around the world. Heren is a summing-up article about that loooong walk.

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• I’ven always loved the videosn created by Matt, who started out dancing badly all over the world.nAs the years went by, Matt changed to dancing and juggling and justn hanging out with mobs of people all over the world.

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  nWired Magazine presents NASA’s best images of Earth from space from last year. Also, Space-dot-com presents amazing images of Earth from manyn different years  – with the amazement mostly coming from how far away the camerasn were, not from the beauty of the photos themselves.

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• Theren are lots of blogs of world travelers. Thisn is one by a wonderful young woman who I have known since she wasn just one month old! 

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  nLotsn of people have done the project of sending stuffed bears around then world as a geography project (heren is one example), in a sort of Paddle-to-the-Sea cooperative journey.n Of course, it doesn’t have to be a teddy bear; it can be any stuffedn animal.

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  nThen BBCn followedn a shipping container for a year to explore the world economy.

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  nYoun could try postcrossing, which is a way of getting postcards fromn random places in the world. Check it out here. 

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• nConsidern mailing off a box with perhaps 30 inexpensive things from your ownn corner of the globe (maybe a local postcard or T-shirts with a localn team imprinted on it)? You would include a note that urges eachn recipient to take out one of the original items (in a bag markedn “original items”) and put in something that represents their ownn country or culture. Start by mailing it to someone you know and trust – someone who has agreed to the project of trying to get the box around the world and back to you again – someone who will only send it to someone that he or she knows and trusts, too.

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nChemistsnCelebrate Earth Day
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• nApriln holidays   

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• nApriln birthdays 

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in April

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• nMayn holidays 

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in May

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