Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
The complimentary colors and simple strokes of Japanese woodblock prints influence many Van Gogh paintings.
Below the earth's crust, its flowing, molten mantle can move the earth resting on it.
Facts about lions which may surprise you.
Following FDR's Executive Order 9066, ten internment camps, located in seven states, received Japanese-American evacuees.
Hines' photographs allow us to travel back in time to view images of children working in canneries.
Hines photographs young children working in adult jobs in mills.
Lewis Hines takes pictures of children working in dangerous American mines.
Much of the southern part of Britain is occupied by Angles; the area, called Angle-land, later becomes England.
The Anglo-Saxon attacks are harsh and frequent and the Britons are not able to stop them.
Wolfe Tone becomes a political activist to stop British control of Ireland.
The Irish tenant farmer grows only one crop for both food and cash: the potato.
In Denmark, the body of a man from the Iron Age is found; it is the peat bog that causes the mummified remains to be so well preserved.
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