Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Apalachicola National Forest, Florida’s largest national forest, encompasses 630,000 acres of pine flatwoods, cypress swamps, ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...

Lucius Bierce is all but forgotten now, as is his “Great Patriot War” that sought to "liberate" Canada from British rule in 1838. That’s understandable: Canadians don’t commemorate their military ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

He invented the platform—a hiked-up shoe shape whose last incarnation was the Chopine in 17th century Venice—and during the Second World War ... became free in 1838, and there's different ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian author Marcelo Rubens Paiva happily swung his wheelchair from side to side, dancing with thousands of Carnival revelers there to celebrate him and his work. Seconds ...

Their priorities, preferences and aspirations seem almost beside the point in Mr. Trump’s ambition to redraw the map of the world along “America First” lines. Even Ukrainians now appear at ...

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I’m not ashamed to admit it: life is hard without Google Maps. From finding the fastest route to work ... allowing users to see city streets around the world in 360-degree panoramic glory. For ...