The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
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This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the “most loving” cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
The weirdest thing about the 21 feet found near Vancouver since 2007? Foul play has been ruled out.
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
This representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early 20th-century indigenous African cartography.
Diplomacy is war by other means.
In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it’s cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.
The U.S. has the world’s largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan’s is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and “deserts.”
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.
With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
Two mounds of rice and a tiny flag in a sea of curry is enough to re-heat an old territorial conflict.
Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.