Nations of the World HD!
This is the Nations of the World made by Animaniacs / Warner Brothers.
In HD.
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylviania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan.
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Created by Henry Reich
Production and Writing Team: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert, Ever Salazar, Kate Yoshida, and Henry Reich
Narrated by: Emily Elert
Music by Nathaniel Schroeder:
Oxbow voiceovers by:
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Ever Salazar:
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References
Ferreira da Silva, A. M. (2006). On why and how do rivers meander.
Howard, A. D. (2009). How to make a meandering river. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(41), 17245-17246.
Howard, A. D., & Knutson, T. R. (1984). Sufficient conditions for river meandering: A simulation approach. Water Resources Research, 20(11), 1659-1667.
Leopold, L. B., & Wolman, M. G. (1960). River meanders. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 71(6), 769-793.
Parker, H. (1996). River Meandering as Self-Organization Process. Science,271, 1710.
Rhoads, B. L., & Welford, M. R. (1991). Initiation of river meandering. Progress in Physical Geography, 15(2), 127-156.
Schwenk, Jon. Interview. 9 July 2014.
Seminara, G. (2006). Meanders. Journal of fluid mechanics, 554, 271-297.
Stølum, H. H. (1998). Planform geometry and dynamics of meandering rivers.Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110(11), 1485-1498.
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Video and Image Credits
Waterfalls Cascading - Courtesy Shutterstock
Rio cauto Cuba - Public Domain Photo
Tiger Leaping Gorge - Courtesy Shutterstock
River coming from mountain - Google Earth
42°21'35.72 S 173°34'30.41 E
Meandering River - Google Earth Engine
Under Water 2 - Ken Mankoff
Oxbow Lake Australia - GoogleEarth
23°41'31.06 S 150°47'53.91 E
Oxbow Lake Colombia - GoogleEarth
3°20'18.70 N 70°07'10.92 O
Oxbow Lake France - Google Earth
46°55'24.16 N 5°19'28.34 E
Dry Oxbow Lake Colorado - Google Earth
32°00'06.80 N 115°07'19.81 O
Martian Rivers on Aeolis Planum - NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Mars Rover Curiosity - Public Domain Image