WKDQ - THE TRI-STATE'S COUNTRY STATION » national geographic http://wkdq.com Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 How The World Got To Seven Billion People – National Geographic [Video] http://wkdq.com/how-the-world-got-to-seven-billion-people-national-geographic-video/ http://wkdq.com/how-the-world-got-to-seven-billion-people-national-geographic-video/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:25:10 +0000 Jon Prell http://wkdq.com/?p=22749 Just recently a child was born that became the seven-billionth person in the world....seven billion!!! The folks at National Geographic Magazine put together a slick video explaining what it all means and how we got there. The video is called, 'World Population: A National Geographic Tour'.

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The folks at "Good Morning America" got a sneak peak of how this was done. Read on to check it out.

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