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Mordí is only accessible by water or on foot, via an unmapped ghost path. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The Guna community of Mordí is only accessible by water or on foot via an unmapped path.

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2 weeks ago
Today, in addition to being firmly controlled by Indigenous peoples, the area remains almost completely undeveloped — an ecological time capsule. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Environment , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: The Darién Gap area is controlled by Indigenous peoples and remains almost completely undeveloped.

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Puerto Suggunyaa Inabiginya used to be called Puerto Escocés, or Scottish Harbor, after one of the most spectacular disasters in the history of colonialism. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , History , Panama

Simplified: The bay in Panama known as Puerto Suggunyaa Inabiginya was formerly called Puerto Escocés, or Scottish Harbor.

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2 weeks ago
Most of the men in the room were from Sasardi Muladub (population roughly 2,000), a farming and fishing community near the Colombian border. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Demographics , Panama

Simplified: Sasardi Muladub, a Guna farming and fishing community near the Colombian border, has a population of roughly 2,000.

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2 weeks ago
The frontier between the two countries is considered impassable because of the Darién Gap, a notorious wilderness spread across much of the boundary. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Environment

Simplified: The frontier between Panama and Colombia is considered impassable due to the Darién Gap, a wilderness area that covers much of the boundary.

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2 weeks ago
The Panama-Colombia border, which is also the border between North and South America — the only continents on Earth connected by land but not a single road. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Infrastructure

Simplified: The border between North and South America, located at the Panama-Colombia border, is the only land connection between continents on Earth that does n...

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2 weeks ago
Digandiggi, our home, was a village of 200 thatched-roof homes built on a coral reef, half a mile from the mainland jungle and the hulking silhouette of the Serranía de San Blas, a mountain range that... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama

Simplified: The Guna village of Digandiggi consisted of 200 thatched-roof homes built on a coral reef, located half a mile from the mainland jungle.

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2 weeks ago
the Serranía de San Blas, a mountain range that is an extension of the Continental Divide. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama

Simplified: The Serranía de San Blas mountain range in Panama is an extension of the Continental Divide.

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2 weeks ago
Gunayala’s more than 350 uninhabited islands. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Panama

Simplified: The Gunayala region of Panama has more than 350 uninhabited islands.

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2 weeks ago
the Lobito Corridor, a transnational network that connects mineral-rich regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to Angola's port of Lobito. 1.000

👤 Tosin Akintola 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Infrastructure

Simplified: The Lobito Corridor is a transnational network connecting mineral-rich areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the port of Lobito...

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3 weeks ago
The 11-bedroom home sits in Southampton, N.Y., along one of the country’s most opulent stretches of shoreline, a two-lane road nicknamed “Billionaires Row.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Real Estate

Simplified: The mansion at 1950 Meadow Lane in Southampton, N.Y. is an 11-bedroom home located on a road nicknamed "Billionaires Row."

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3 weeks ago
The range spans Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Asia , Himalayas

Simplified: The Hindu Kush Himalayan range spans Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.

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3 weeks ago
Yemen has effectively been divided into two states, with the Houthis in control of large swaths of the country’s north and the government in the south, based in the temporary capital, Aden. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Geography , Yemen , Houthis

Simplified: Yemen is divided, with Houthis controlling large parts of the north and the internationally recognized government based in the southern temporary capi...

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3 weeks ago
Marib, about 75 miles east of Sanaa, and the southern city of Taiz have emerged as the Houthis’ most likely targets after they captured territory near the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital waterway for gl... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Military , Geography , Yemen , Houthis

Simplified: The Houthis captured territory near the Bab al-Mandab Strait and are now targeting Marib, which is about 75 miles east of Sanaa, and the city of Taiz.

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3 weeks ago
Lahaina’s jade-green elementary school had stood in the same spot since before Hawaii joined America. That location was in the island’s tsunami zone. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , History , Education , Hawaii

Simplified: Fact: Lahaina's elementary school, located in a tsunami zone, had been in the same spot since before Hawaii became a state.

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3 weeks ago
Originally a hardscrabble frontier, Joplin became a boomtown at the turn of the 20th century after the discovery of lead and zinc. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Geography , History

Simplified: Joplin became a boomtown at the turn of the 20th century due to the discovery of lead and zinc.

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3 weeks ago
A tornado was entering Joplin, a city of 50,000 people. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Demographics

Simplified: Joplin was a city of 50,000 people when the tornado struck in 2011.

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3 weeks ago
I was invited to Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province, a three-hour train ride from Shenzhen but culturally a backwater. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , China , Transportation

Simplified: Nanning is the capital of Guangxi Province and is a three-hour train ride from Shenzhen.

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3 weeks ago
The butterfly sea slug looks like it belongs at a dance party, but it is typically found in the tropical waters of the Western Pacific Ocean. 1.000

👤 Stella Raine Chu 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Biology , Marine Life

Simplified: The butterfly sea slug is typically found in the tropical waters of the Western Pacific Ocean.

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3 weeks ago
We were a family of seven boys, raised in Elgin, Neb., a town of about 900 two and a half hours northwest of Omaha, on the edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. 1.000

👤 Mark S. Getzfred 📋 News Article 🏷️ Geography , Biography

Simplified: The author was one of seven boys raised in Elgin, Nebraska, a town with a population of about 900.

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3 weeks ago