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Related: Actualité • Geografi • Environnement et avenir de la planète • RichesseWhite Elephants: Over-Budget, Unsuccessful, and Embarrassing Architecture Projects From Around the World White Elephants: Over-Budget, Unsuccessful, and Embarrassing Architecture Projects From Around the World Not every piece of architecture can be an economic and social success. But there is one dreaded term reserved for only the mot wasteful of projects: "white elephants." The term comes from a story of the kings of Siam, now Thailand, who would reportedly gift sacred albino elephants to courtiers they didn't like. Refusing the gift from the king would have been unacceptable, but being sacred, these animals were forbidden from work, leading the courtier to financial ruin—a fact the kings knew all too well.
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Here’s a look at 8 Mexican border wall prototypes President Donald Trump will visit California on Tuesday to inspect the eight border wall prototypes that were erected along the U.S. border in Otay Mesa outside San Diego. RELATED STORY: Walls! Walls! Walls! Trump’s California trip will take him to many PhotoMaps All of your photos. On a map. Ready to share. PhotoMaps is our first product for Windows 10 and we're really excited to use it and share it. Since we're offering a 15-day free trial the best way to try it out is to download it to your PC, Tablet, or Phone now. Where are my photos? Haunting Photos Show Where Refugee Children Sleep PUBLISHED February 24, 2016 Most of what we’ve seen from the mass movement of refugees and migrants in the Middle East is chaos—crowds of people crossing seas in too-small boats, then clamoring to be allowed through border checkpoints, and sometimes running from guards armed with guns and water cannons. In the middle of this cacophony, photographer Magnus Wennman turned to the quiet moments. The photos in Wennman’s series Where the Children Sleep show the individual suffering of the youngest refugees. The project recently won third place in the People/Stories division of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest. More than 2.4 million Syrian children are living as refugees, according to UNICEF.
The World's Largest Slums: Dharavi, Kibera, Khayelitsha & Neza While the number of people living the five biggest slums in the world amounts to 5.7 million, this is only just a drop in the ocean. Today, by the most conservative estimates, about 900 million people live in slums. But most experts agree that including different types of informal settlements, the number goes up to 1.6 billion – which represents 1/4 of the world’s urban population. By 2030, it’s estimated that it 1 in 4 people on the planet will live in a slum or other informal settlement. Let’s take a tour of the world’s biggest slums: Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Lancet Inf Dis Article: Here. Mobile Version: Here. Data sources: Full list. Downloadable database: GitHub, Feature Layer. Lead by JHU CSSE. Technical Support: Esri Living Atlas team and JHU APL.
38 maps that explain the global economy Commerce knits the modern world together in a way that nothing else quite does. Almost anything you own these days is the result of a complicated web of global interactions. And there's no better way to depict those interactions and the social and political circumstances that give rise to them than with a map or two. Or in our case, 38.