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From the BBCNEWS
Last updated at 11:45 am
November 3, 2010
Maps from the Associated Press
in the BBCnew article >>> "2010 General Election Returns"
[U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Governors, ballot initiative]
Understand & learn with a few illustrations !
Here ⇓ you can see the reactions of these regions inhabitants
to a few questions on the election issues :
- The consequences of a reorganization of the White House staff on Obama's policy.
- Are Charlie Crist's motivations sincere... or is he an opportunist ?
- Has the notion of "American Dream" been knocked out by the Great Recession in a globalising world ?
- Can new Wall Street regulations prevent another financial failure ?
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This infographic ⇑ shows the Americans' reactions nationwide to questions on seven major issues (more than 1.6 million answered the survey.) :
Culture media / Economy / Energy environment / Immigration / National Security / State of the Union / Justice -courts.
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The midterm elections give the American voters the opportunity to have their say on both the Senate and the House trends.
This infographic gets you to visualise what is at stake : the first two graphs show the Democrats (their symbol is a donkey, but it's not on their new official logo) and the Republicans (their symbol is an elephant) seats at the Senate. Some are leaning seats : seats leaning towards one of the 2 parties (= seats favouring one of the 2 parties). [still in progress]
Another haunted house...
and yet this one is quite different : it will show you a website that "compiles a big collection of Halloween advertisements from the past 60 years or so."
Most of he products brands are American... but I'm sure you know many of them !
at Hallowe'en... in a haunted house !
Click on the haunted house to enter the game
[you need a flash player to view it]
Garfield has to find 7 packages of goodies, but he has to search the different rooms of a haunted house first. Beware ! If he gets too scared, he'll lose !
This video clip aims at telling you all you've ever
dreamt of knowing about pumpkins ;o)
Watch it once...
then, try to answer the QUIZ :
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Little more than 3 days left before All Hallows Eve,
or Halloween...
Click on the illustration ⇓ below
to view the full-size infographic timeline
telling the history of Halloween !
Pumpkin carvings can be genuine masterpieces
Carving pumpkins is specific to Halloween traditions :
some people even turn this craft into art !
| A Magnificent Dragon | Who's the superhero popping out of the pumpkin ?! |
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Can you recognize this cat ? |
All these pumpkin carvings & photos were created by
Wayne Hamilton and are under a CC BY-NC-ND license
You'll find a great deal more on Wayne Hamilton's Picasa gallery
Is the UK government's strategy relevant ?
Time will tell...
"The British government has announced sweeping new austerity measures that critics say could add up to half a million lost jobs and a weakened military."
Halloween infographics
The first infographic below tells us the different names of Hallowe'en... but it also explains how come today we carve pumpkins... and not turnips ! Click on it, and you'll also discover other interesting facts about All Hallows Eve :o)
Nowadays Halloween is widely celebrated in the U.S.A. : can you imagine how the Americans are going to spend their money this Halloween ? Click on the infographic to get the full-size picture.
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