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.
Susa, an important city in the ancient world (when it was the capital of Elam), is located in Iran. It is one of the oldest, continuously inhabited ci...
With the Isthmus of Corinth preventing easy sea travel to Athens, the ancients invent a way to help boats cross the Isthmus on land. They make a road ...
This is full of facts about Ancient Hawaiian Fishing.
Some decisions by Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), America's seventh president, greatly disturbed Native Americans. Among the results, of those decisions, ...
After Rome's legions left Briton, the local people (who had relied on Rome's defensive help for centuries) were left to fend for themselves. They wer...
Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions?
Even during Roman times, sculptors prized the white marble from Carrara's quarries.
Gavrilo Princip tries to commit suicide, after his fatal shooting of the Archduke and his wife, but the cyanide in the capsule he swallows is old, hen...
Released in 2010, and distributed in America by Disneynature, the documentary film, Oceans, took four years to make and covers about 50 different loca...
You will know why Japan attacked Hawaii.
The Babylonian Empire became a dominant force in the ancient world, after the fall of the Assyrians.
Baobab trees are known as a "Tree of Life" because they store water in their large stems.
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