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| ATLAS
OF THE HUMAN JOURNEY |
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| By mapping the appearance and
frequency of genetic markers, the National Geigraphic has
created a picture of when and where ancient humans moved
around the world. These great migrations led the descendants
of a small group of Africans to occupy even the farthest
reaches of the Earth. |
| ETHNOLOGUE
- LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD |
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| The Ethnologue is an encyclopedic
reference volume that catalogs all of the 6,912 known living
languages in the world today. The Ethnologue has been an
active research project for more than fifty years. Here
you can browse the web version and buy the printable one. |
| THE
CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY |
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| From the Manifesto of the Cloud
Appreciation Society: "Clouds are so commonplace
that their beauty is often overlooked. They are for dreamers
and their contemplation benefits the soul. Indeed, all who
consider the shapes they see in them will save on psychoanalysis
bills." |
| KEVIN
SITES IN THE HOT ZONE |
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| One man, one year, a world of
conflict: Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone is news reporting
for the new millennium - a nexus of backpack journalism,
narrative story-telling techniques, and the Internet, designed
to reach a global audience hungry for information. |
| THE
AFRICA OVERLAND NETWORK |
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| This beautiful web site collects
all the web addresses of other sites and weblog owned by
travellers who are crossing Africa overland. Useless to
say that sooner or later we will make them to link Orizzontintorno
too. We only have to wait for Leonardo to be few years older... |
| THE
SURVIVAL GUIDE TO KABUL |
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| I was looking for an hotel in
Kabul. Not a difficult task: I found this link on my first
attempt. I already read somewhere about the new guidebook
about Kabul by Hillary Bradt. Here it is. Take a look, it's
a different way of looking at there. |
| THE
SEVEN SUMMITS |
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| This web site is fully dedicated
to the Seven Summits, that's the highest mountains of each
continent. Here you can also find an interesting forum to
debate whether the highest mountain of Europe is Mt. Elbrus
or Mont Blanc. |
| PASSPORT
TO DEATH |
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| Francesco, who is also the author
of the December 2004 picture of the month, is one of the
best sources of ours for updating this page. This time he's
found this link, almost perfect for Orizzontintorno. Above
all if I think to our next destination... |
| THE
WORLD OF MAP |
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| Internet is a mine for finding
out maps, and all of those one you can view on this site
has been found surfing the Net. These are not news. Anyway,
World of Map offers a catalogue that is almost matchless.
To be browsed. |
| LA
TORRE DI BABELE, by Pino Scaccia |
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| Again from Iraq, still another
weblog (in Italian). A daily appointment with Pino's news
from Baghdad. He has just left from Iraq, so that we're
in late in pointing his weblog out. But you can read backward
his notes and learning about the Iraqi war from his keen
perspective. |
| BLOGHDAD |
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| The Enzo's Baldoni weblog (in
Italian) from Iraq. Enzo was kidnapped and killed by terrorists
on August 2004. He was working in Iraq as freelance journalist,
travelling with the Red Cross. Orizzontintorno is a web
site about dreamers. And Enzo was a smart dreamer. |
| ELLIS
ISLAND FOUNDATION |
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| This web site is really interesting.
Here you can find documents and data about all the people
who entered United States, coming from Europe, between the
end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. Ellis
Island was the gate to the dream. |
| INTERNATIONAL
CRISIS GROUP |
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| The International Crisis Group
(ICG) is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation,
with over 100 staff members on five continents, working
through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to
prevent and resolve deadly conflict. |
| GOLFMONGOLIA |
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| Some crazy men deserve attention.
This one has transformed Mongolia into his personal golf
course, about 6,000 miles long. And you can follow on Internet
his foolish game, just surfing his own web site. We understand
him very well... How we miss Mongolia... |
| THE
DEGREE CONFLUENCE PROJECT |
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| I really love this web site. The
goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and
longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and
to take pictures at each location. Maybe it's a crazy project,
but it's working, believe it or not... |
| THE
DIGITAL NOAH'S ARK |
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| This web site is the Noah's Ark
for the Internet era - the world's centralised digital library
of films, photographs and associated recordings of species,
accessible to all via the world wide web. It is building
a comprehensive and enduring audio-visual record. |
| MIGRANT
WORLD |
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| BBC World special pages about
migration: an interesting section of the BBC web site which
contains dozens of articles, statistics, pictures and facts
about the problem of mass migration around the world. Not
to be missed. |
| NYCLONDON.COM |
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| The wonderful photographic web
site by R. Gardiner from Australia, dedicated to New York
and London, specialized in black and white images. His photolog
is regularly updated. Many of his images are really masterpieces.
(foto © R. Gardiner) |
| PEACE
IN THE BALKANS |
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| Another web site about the Balkans
war. Here you can find a huge archive of documents and images.
The photo archive is really impressive and describes, better
than thousand words, what is ex-Jugoslavia today. |
| JETLAG
TRAVEL GUIDES |
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| Have you ever been in Molvania?
And in Bongoswana? And in Tofu Islands? Maybe you need to
look over your world map again before deciding where to
spend your next summer holidays. Now you can definitively
throw away your Lonely Planet guidebooks... |
| INSENEGAL.ORG |
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| The Insenegal.org staff have written
us about their web site. It's the first Italian web portal
about Senegal, full of information about this African country.
Its aim is the diffusion of the Senegal culture around Italy
and fostering the intercultural exchange between the two
countries. |
| THE
BURMA CAMPAIGN UK |
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| This web site deserves your attention,
even if you can disagree with its scope. In other words,
pushing the tourism towards Burma contributes or not in
supporting the dictatorship? The topic is interesting. Here
you can decide if joining the campaign or less... |
| ONE
HUNDRED IMAGES, by Marco d'Anna |
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| The Swiss photographer Marco D'Anna,
in 1999, has shot one hundred B&W photos of a limited
area in Switzerland, the Swiss-Italian province. All these
images, at present, are shown in prestigious exhibitions
both in Switzerland and around the world.
(photo © Marco d'Anna) |
| MAKADAM.IT |
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| A large archive of images shot with
cameras mounted on mobile telephones. It's an hypnotic and vouyeristic
trip inside hundreds of amazing and rotten pictures of things,
self portraits, lanscapes and insanities.
(photo © 2003 Emage srl) |
| ESCAPE
FROM AFRICA, by Fabrizio Gatti |
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| The Corriere della Sera, the main
Italian newspaper, has published the long story by Fabrizio
Gatti, a reporter who has travelled with the African stowaways
from Senegal to Italy, across the Sahara and Ténéré
deserts. On Corriere.it
there are also some photos he shot along the road. (photo
© Fabrizio Gatti, © Corriere della Sera) |
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