Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese, included wind heads—illustrations of human faces with puffed cheeks to indicate wind directions. Initially ...

This large format full-colour map features World Heritage sites and brief explanations of the World Heritage Convention and the World Heritage conservation programmes. It is available in English, ...

The top 10 countries in the CIA's list for population growth are as follows: The United States, by comparison, is number 131 ...

By Dr John Oldfield. A biographical insight into the man whose skill and foresight helped redraw the map of the world. By Professor Glyn Williams.

This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, which takes care to demonstrate accurate relative size and location of nations around the world. This map was adopted for use in the Boston Public ...

Typically, Americans pay the most for car insurance, but gas costs can also eat up to $1,837 per year. Car repairs were an ...

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.

Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 414 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-04748-8, $35.00 (cloth). - Jessica M. Lepler.

Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says. The soccer ...

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The Roaring Twenties saw a booming global economy, an optimistic post-First World War atmosphere ... the Houses of Parliament ...