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.
On the 7th of October, 2001, America and Britain launched an attack on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan - as a response to the events of September 11.&n...
This map depicts the location of Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles. It is not far from Disney Hall. Click on the map for a better read.
Image of a map depicting the British port of Southampton, from an online studyguide called The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony: 1620, created by Dua...
This map depicts the location of Plymouth, the place where the Pilgrims established their new American colony during the winter of 1620.
This map image depicts the route which Pliny the Elder took as he left Misenum (today's Capo Miseno) for the port town of Stabiae. He was planni...
This image depicts a bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea, his hometown in Greece. A famous writer, in ancient times, his still-studied book -&nbs...
Signal beacons, which dotted the English landscape, could warn the country of enemy ships approaching Britain by way of the English Channel. His...
Black Hawk Down was produced and distributed, in 2001, by Columbia Pictures. It had a budget of $95 million and is 144 minutes long. Production ...
This graphic, from the University of Texas at Austin, depicts where racial groups predominately lived during South Africa's apartheid era. Based...
Book-cover image of Raptors! The Nastiest Dinosaurs, by Don Lessem, illustrated by David Peters.
This table is one of twenty-five similar tables listing cases in which animals were accused of crimes. In the town of Autun, France - during the...
This document, from the National Archives, is the draft of President Reagan's famous speech which he delivered in Berlin. Included here is the p...
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