Here are some factoids to help wrap your head around it…
1. #Alaska is about 1/3 the size of the U.S. and is as wide as the contiguous 48 states. It is larger than Texas, California and Montana combined.
2. Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the U.S.
3. Flying from Juneau to Barrow, AK is the same as flying Orlando, FL to New York, NY.
4. It takes at least 24 hours to drive from Homer, AK north to Deadhorse, AK on the north slope. You’d already be in Tijuana, MX checked into a hotel and on a beach coming from Blaine,WA via Interstate 5 having passed through 3 states and traveled 300 miles more, in the same amount of time.
Graphic by Kim Mincer and Vanessa Rathbun
(via: Bureau of Land Management - Alaska)
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants raped four women and then stoned them for adultery in Mosul, Iraq.
“The four victims were arrested earlier on [W]ednesday in a raid by ISIS jihadis,” stated Raafat Zarari, spokesman of the Nineveh Media Center. “The jihadis claimed to have captured the women while committing adultery.”
A Sharia court operated by the Islamic State sentenced the women to death.
“The four women were stoned to death on Thursday in front of a large crowd of people in central Mosul,” continued Zarari.
The sentence did not mention the men who raped the women, who, it can be assumed also committed “adultery” if they were married when the rape took place.
“The four women were most likely exposed to sexual abuse at the hands of ISIS militants before being driven out of their homes and...
