Wednesday, 25 April, 2018

The Most Peaceful Countries in the World

Posted on Friday, 10 June, 2016Monday, 21 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The Most Peaceful Countries in the World

It is a no brainer to conclude that the world in 2016 had been a less safe place to live, due especially to internal conflicts in some Middle Eastern and African countries and their terrorist spillover in Europe. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, apart from Syria, the countries with the most internal conflict deaths are Mexico, Iraq, and Afghanistan. However, Syria, the Ukraine, and South Sudan lead in terms of countries with the largest drop in the peace index for the year. Countries with the largest improvement in the index are Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Georgia, a former Soviet republic. The most peaceful countries are Iceland, Denmark, and Austria.

Read Article Here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/08/mapped-what-are-the-most-peaceful-countries-in-the-world/

Map of Countries in the Global Peace Index 2016:

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/#/page/indexes/global-peace-index

The Colour of IC 1795.
Image Credit & Copyright: Bob and Janice Fera (Fera Photography). This cosmic portrait features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star-forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. Also catalogued as NGC 896, the narrow filter transmits only H-alpha light, the red light of hydrogen atoms ionised by ultraviolet light from energetic young stars. IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, as part of a complex of star-forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, this picture would span about 70 light-years across IC 1795.

The flag of Libya was originally introduced in 1951, following the creation of the Kingdom of Libya. It consisted of a white star and crescent on a triband red-black-green design, with the central black band being twice the width of the outer bands. The design was based on the banner of the Senussi dynasty from Cyrenaica, which consisted of a black field and star and crescent design, and was later used as the flag of the region. The red was selected for the blood sacrificed for the freedom of Libya, black to remember the dark days that Libyans lived under the occupation of the Italians, and green to represent its primary wealth, agriculture, (Libya once being the 'breadbasket' of the Ottoman Empire) and the future prosperity of the country.

Kyrgyzstan – Level 1: Tuesday, 24 April, 2018
Exercise normal precautions in the Kyrgyz Republic. Read the Safety and Security section on the country information page. If you decide to travel to the Kyrgyz Republic: Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive Alerts and make it easier to locate you in an emergency. Follow the Department of State on Facebook […]
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Reconsider travel to Nicaragua due to crime and civil unrest. On April 23, 2018, the U.S. government ordered the departure of U.S. government family members and authorized the departure of U.S. government personnel. Political rallies and demonstrations are occurring daily, often with little notice or predictability. Some protests result in injuries and deaths. Demonstrations typically […]

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter, of the early 1900s, accurately representing the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th-century art but for the actual history, which they document. The Paris Arc de Triomphe was painted in 1941. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France.

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