Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...
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The Nation on MSNBeatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian RebellionThe scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin ...
In Minneapolis and St. Paul, the dense, mixed-use history of streetcar routes also played a key historical role in ...
Forget the human Boston mayoral race. This is the quadruped-centered contest you need to keep on the front burner.
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...
What a human geographer observed in one county during the first Trump administration and lessons for the next term.
At the western coast of the peninsula, soil erosion caused by waves revealed a piece of a Kouros statue. The fragment was ...
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Grist on MSN‘It’s about control’: Why Trump renamed Denali to Mount McKinleyAmerica has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.
Marinus of Tyre, the First Geographer to Include China in Roman Maps and Invent the Term “Antarctic”
His name was Marinus of Tyre, a Greek geographer, cartographer, and mathematician of the 2nd century AD, whose work laid the foundations of modern geography and paved the way for the great Claudius ...
The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...
Legend has it that the island of Ios, Greece was where Homer took his last breath and that now he lies in his tomb on a hill at Plakoto.
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Live Science on MSNLake Vostok: The 15 million-year-old lake buried miles beneath Antarctica's iceBuried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...
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