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Since we were young, we've learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make up the seven continents, but a study published in the journal Gondwana ...
Around 1930, an employee with the U.S. Geological Survey simply took a cutout of the map of North America, and balanced it on the top of a pin. Not the most sophisticated method, perhaps, but for ...
Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested ...
The map, supposedly dating back to the 15th century, was a big deal because it added weight to the claim that Vikings landed in North America before Christopher Columbus.
In INDIGENOUS CONTINENT: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 592 pp., $40), Pekka Hämäläinen asserts that the war for control of the continent was “one of the longest conflicts in ...
The art deco flag, which was chosen in January 2022, took roughly 55% of the more than 2,700 votes in 2022 Urban Life Signs North American City Flag Tournament. Lincoln's flag wins contest to be ...