This Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the first wartime use of a nuclear bomb. On Monday 6 August at 8:15 am the Enola Gay, a B-29 commanded by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped ‘Little Boy’ on Hiroshima Japan. Only about two pounds of the 141 pounds of U-235 (Enriched Uranium)… Read more“Map Monday, Nuclear bomb targets in the US”
Category: History
Map Monday, The most common 2nd language by state
Spanish is the most common 2nd language spoken in most of the US. What’s the next most common language? As you might expect government, businesses and advocacy groups want to answer to this question. Where there’s interest there’s data and this being a Map Monday post, that translates into a… Read more“Map Monday, The most common 2nd language by state”
Map Monday, Why do we remember Marco Polo?
The first time I heard the name Marco Polo was as a kid at the community swimming pool. As part of a then popular game the person who was ‘it’ would keep their eyes closed and call out ‘Marco,’ which elicited the response of ‘Polo’ from the other players. Using… Read more“Map Monday, Why do we remember Marco Polo?”