Ironically, the original name for the desert planet is Berber for ‘water springs’
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Double taxation without representation? No wonder this grey area declared its independence.
One supercontinent, ringing the equator
Everybody was getting ready for conflict, but at least they all agreed this map was funny
a stark illustration of the West Bank’s ongoing fragmentation
Ebenezer Howard’s utopian plan to blur the line between gardens and cities produced a number of depressing ‘new towns’
An April Fool’s prank that had lots of Guardian readers fooled – except those who knew their typography.
Castro gifted the island to East Germany. They never gave it back. So whose is it now?
That time the ape-man found an entire Roman province in a hidden valley
A decade and a half later, the plan sounds even more improbable than at its inception
They even made it through the Northwest Passage
Taiwan – officially: the Republic of China – claims territories of ten of China’s neighbours
What could be more rational – or more revolutionary – than to impose a rectangular grid on France’s age-old divisions?
The only way to visit this island is to read the book
The Treaty of London gave the eastern half to the Netherlands, creating its curious southern panhandle
Centuries of isolation left the Japanese with limited knowledge of world geography
The secessionist project hit its stride at exactly the worst time possible
Not merely a nice flower, but also a political tool
A few days before NECC I was invited by a publicist to interview Julie Young, the Executive Director of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and also speak with the folks from […]
Back in 1920, native-born Parisians were a minority in their own city
Texas and Tennessee are the two states most mentioned in country lyrics
The short-lived state “belongs more to the obsessions of bourgeois France than to the politics of South America”
Cannibalism is the ultimate yardstick for barbarity, and the ideal excuse to subjugate the accused
Past Affection Farm, take a left at the River of Tears
“Paula” is the emblem of the western world’s most populous sub-nation
The flight of the Freudenheims through the colourful crayons of their 11-year-old son Fritz
Now one of the smaller states, it once covered half the continent
Portugal’s inferiority complex leads to a very curious comparison