Cleveland Council on World Affairs honored by Cleveland Rotary

 The Rotary Club of Cleveland is the home club of Arch C. Klumph, known as the father of The Rotary Foundation. Every year Cleveland Rotarians live the Rotary International “Service Above Self” motto. With countless hours of member planning and execution lead by their service committees, they provide a meaningful impact in the community, internationally, with youth, and in the business community.

Each year they present an International Service Award to a person or group.

The Rotary Club of Cleveland's International Service Award was presented to the Cleveland Council on World Affairs on April 21, 2022. This award celebrates Rotary International's vision of a "world where people unite and take action to create lasting change - across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves."

Ingrida Bublys, Yunus Badat and Carina Van Vliet

Photos and videos from the Rotary-CCWA event

Cleveland Guardians new Food at Progressive Field 2022

 The Cleveland Guardians are offering some new foods at Progressive Field for the 2022 baseball season. 

 This includes items such as a Chicken and Waffle sandwich, Plant-based Nachos, Pork Mac and Cheese in a waffle cone, Wisconsin brat burger on a pretzel bun and more.  

You can go to the stands to get your food when you are at a game or order it on your phone for mobile delivery. 

 I really liked the Chicken and waffle and the Footlong Chili Dog which has a spicy chili and onion. 

 I tried the plant-based nachos and with the cheese and salsa and jalapenos did not even notice that the “beef” was plant-based. Hungry yet? 

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Fun with Maps – Kaliningrad aka Königsberg

 This episode of Fun with Maps takes a look at a very strategic piece of land called Königsberg or Kaliningrad. 

Kaliningrad is actually a city in the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. Remember that an enclave is a piece of land that is totally surrounded by a foreign territory. An exclave is a piece of land that is politically attached to a larger piece but not physically having the same borders with it because of surrounding foreign territory. Many entities are both enclaves and exclaves. Kaliningrad is an exclave because while politically attached to Russia it is bordered by Poland and Lithuania and the Baltic Sea. An oblast is a political and administrative division of a country. Oblast is a term used by many former Soviet countries that is something like states or provinces.

So how did Russia get territory to the west of Lithuania and north of Poland? It’s a long story starting with Prussia. For much of the last 700 years or so this land was Königsberg, an historic Prussian city that then became German. As you will see, Germany was forced to give up huge patches of its conquered land at the end of WWII.

 In 1945 the Potsdam Agreement was signed by the USSR, Britain and the USA. It specifically gave Kaliningrad (known as the German Königsberg at the time) to Russia, without opposition. As you can tell from the map, it’s very important as Russia’s Baltic Navy base. 

 It was also a center of knowledge and culture with people such as Immanuel Kant, Leonard Euler, Christian Goldbach and others there.

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