The other day I found this photograph above on a friend’s Facebook page. The photograph was taken from an airplane while the friend was traveling Alaska on behalf of their job in the American government. Around the time current Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, made a gaff about being able to see Russia from Alaska, I remembered how there was only one spot in America where this was the case and it just so happened that my friend had recently been there.
Known as the Diomede Islands in America or the Gvozdev Islands in Russia, the two islands are only split by about 4 kilometers. What I’ve always thought was interesting is that the houses on Little Diomede (above) face tomorrow. Due to the placement of the International Date Line, the Russian side is one of the first territories to start the day. This means folks on Big Diomede can also see yesterday.
NASA satellite image of the Diomede Islands
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- Spam from presidential candidate John McCain: Make History Tomorrow
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- Bird's Eye View of Little Diomede, Alaska
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- Change in America by Head-Roc featuring GODISHEUS International Funk Train aka The G.I.F.T
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- Third Party Presidential Ballot Access in the United States of America [updated]
- Interviews with Alex Jones at the DNC in Denver and other videos
- Empirically demonstrating how voting can prove uniqueness
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- Third Party Presidential Ballot Access in the United States of America
- Protest videos from the first day of the RNC in St. Paul, Minnesota
- Iraq Veterans Against the War Concert & March at the 2008 DNC
- Two Huffington Post Interviews are up - Tim Daly, Rufus Wainwright, and Margaret Cho
- A Polar Bear In Denver
- Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day Three
- Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day Two
- Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day One
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- Dalai Lama: "If you have a Green Party I want to join it"
- CurrentTV: Green On Green [feat. the 2008 Green Party Presidential Candidates]
- Face the (Corporate) Candidates on YouTube
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- 2008 Green Party Debate [tonight on KPFA]
