Biljana Presnall

How to Hanami?

Hanami means “flower viewing” in Japanese and it is a time to honor the tradition of welcoming spring under the cherry blossom (Sakura). It was the emperor’s habit of a picnic under beautiful trees to celebrate the start of rice...

Cherry Blossom Washington DC

Virginia is for agritourism

The majority of the rolling hills farms are operated by small landowners and some of them decided to invite travelers into their homes! So called agritourism can nicely diversify struggling farm's income and a stay in one of those can...

Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

Have you ever seen "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" with Paul Newman and Robert Redford? Do you know where it was filmed? In Colorado around Animas River in the San Juan National Forest.   The best way to see...

Belgrade, Serbia

Discover amazing and vibrant city and the warm people in the heart of the Balkans!       

US National Parks

National Park Service has been created in 1916 but at that time it was already 35 sites to be manged by this organization. President Theodore Roosevelt is considered greatest conservationist president and many of his personal efforts shaped the later...

Native American Lands

Semi-autonomous native American territory, Navajo Nation Reservation, covers a large area of 27,425 square miles in Utah, Arizona i New Mexico. As many other Reservations, they have tribal parks, Navajo's Monument Valley is surely the best know. The red desert...

Where are 6 millions of Democrats?

In the presidential elections 2008 Obama had nine and half millions of Democrats more than Clinton 2016. Even in his second term 2012, when we expected lower number, he had almost 6 six millions more then Clinton 2016. Even in...

Trump rhetorical change

We can already see changes in the key points of the president-elect's rhetoric. He is clearly shifting from the issues he was stressing during the campaign. Check out a comparison of his RNC speech and the very first speech as...

The USA voters contributions

It is not very hard to see that the country was supporting actually Republican candidate and that the support coming from big industrial centers count only for exactly that: industrial centers. No money could buy voters who did not wanted...

Votier ID laws

While waiting for the election it useful to check it out the map of voter ID laws:

Presidential campaigns in the USA

It is fascinating how much resources is being contributed every month to the presidential campaigns. Here is July overview for all candidates on the county level: And here are the top 5 counties:

Clinton vs Sanders

I look at the examples of Clinton vs Sanders speeches and thought it is interesting how importance of certain words for each of the candidates colors their policy orientation: People, country and American are favorite for Sanders, while Clinton also...

IOWA suprise or not really?

And while everybody are talking about the great Iowa surprise only the ones who really listen carefully what people are talking while commenting in the news were not surprised with results. The following visualization shows how often Sanders was more...

What do they say?

We were analyzing the words of the articles and comments of the Washington Post in 2015. Not only that gives me a glimpse of what and how people comment but it serves as a great reading tool with an easy...

Unemployment rate in Balkans 2010

- See more at: http://patchworkbalkan.org/#sthash.l9ArtaTB.dpuf Bulgaria joined European Union January 1,2007. The unemployment rate in 2010 across several Balkan countries shows superior position of families living in Bulgarian regions with the highest rate at the region of Shumen of 28.8%...