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  2. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    When the National Geography Standards were released in 1994, people compared them to the five themes, saying that the themes had a simplicity that the new standards were lacking. [4] In 1992, a National Assessment of Educational Progress consensus group said that the five themes are useful for teaching, but that for assessment, geography should ...

  3. Richard III of England - Wikipedia

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    Richard was not without his defenders, the first of whom was Sir George Buck, a descendant of one of the king's supporters, who completed The history of King Richard the Third in 1619. The authoritative Buck text was published only in 1979, though a corrupted version was published by Buck's great-nephew in 1646. [210]

  4. Wikipedia : Peer review/Five Themes of Geography/archive1

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  5. The Significance of Monuments - Wikipedia

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    Chapter one, "Structures of Sand", introduces the themes that Bradley explores in the book, and outlines prior archaeological approaches to understanding the Neolithic. [1] In the second chapter, "Thinking the Neolithic", Bradley argues that Mesolithic European worldviews centred on fertility and regeneration, with no distinction made between ...

  6. Geography - Wikipedia

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    Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they have changed and come to be. While geography is specific to Earth, many concepts can be applied more broadly to other celestial bodies in the field of planetary science. [2]

  7. Richard Hartshorne - Wikipedia

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    Richard Hartshorne (/ ˈ h ɑːr t s h ɔːr n /; December 12, 1899 – November 5, 1992) was a prominent American geographer, and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in economic and political geography and the philosophy of geography. He is known in particular for his methodological work The Nature of Geography ...

  8. Four traditions of geography - Wikipedia

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    A theme among these traditions is interconnectedness, and it has been referenced in relation to the Tobler's first law of geography. [4] The four traditions of geography have been widely used to teach geography in the classroom as a compromise between a single definition and memorization of many distinct sub-themes.

  9. Michael Watts (geographer) - Wikipedia

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    Watts works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary geopolitics, social movements and oil politics.As Tom Perrault notes, his work charted a "rigorous and wide-ranging theoretical engagement with Marxian political economy", [11] with contributions to the development of political ecology, struggles over resources, and – more recently – how the politics of identity ...