No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
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Opponents of America's entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.
Wyoming's roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland's. California's road safety is on par with Romania's.
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There's also a connection to James Bond.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
Research suggests there's truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
You might think it's impossible to run out of wind, but Europe's "wind drought" proves otherwise. And it's only going to get worse.
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.
"When you see me, weep." When rivers dry up in Central Europe, "hunger stones" with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.
Guess which country has 269% inflation.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
For better and worse, the Columbian Exchange plugged the Americas into the global system — and there was no going back.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi's atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
The world’s great whales aren’t just vulnerable where they congregate, but everywhere they roam.