{"id":3827,"date":"2009-11-19T07:05:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2012-04-16T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:48:41","slug":"geography-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3827","title":{"rendered":"Geography Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Geography Awareness Week<\/strong><\/span>, November 15-21, 2009, is upon us and has the theme of exploring the world through mapping. How are you celebrating?<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, &#8220;test your geography smarts&#8221; online with one of these challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/geobee\/today.html#\/start\">GeoBee Challenge<\/a> (new quiz daily from the National Geographic Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geographyzone.com\/new\/index.php?t=1&amp;b=1\">Geography Zone&#8217;s Geography Challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yikes! They even ask about all those islands out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/worldmap.jpg\" alt=\"CIA world political map image\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Need to brush up (as I do)? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/docs\/refmaps.html\">CIA World Factbook maps<\/a> and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/views\/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t141&amp;subject=s25\">World Maps<\/a>&#8221; available through the Oxford Reference Online Premium database. Or, Andersen Library has a number of print atlases and books about mapping&#8211;please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geography Awareness Week, November 15-21, 2009, is upon us and has the theme of exploring the world through mapping. How are you celebrating? If nothing else, &#8220;test your geography smarts&#8221; online with one of these challenges: GeoBee Challenge (new quiz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/3827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[2416,335,220,2415,783,922,658],"class_list":["post-3827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-infogov","tag-cia","tag-federal-government","tag-fun-stuff","tag-geography","tag-government-info","tag-maps","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}