The 1.5-acre Pheasant Island is in the middle of the Bidasoa River, which is the border between France and Spain. It's the place where the the 1635-1659 war between France and Spain was officially ended with the Treaty o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/28/Pheasant-Island-Is-Sometimes-In-France-Sometimes-In-Spain/(Image: Google Maps)On December 6, 1917, Finland declared independence from Russia. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of that event, its friendly neighbor, Norway, would like to give it a mountain.The Norwegian governme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/28/Norway-Considers-Giving-Finland-a-Mountain-to-Celebrate-Its-100th-Birthday/(Photo: Damien Ramon Naidoo)Once upon a time, to make lead round shot, nations and businesses would build shot towers. These are industrial sites sometimes hundreds of feet tall. Workers would drip molten lead from the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/27/10-Historic-Shot-Towers-around-the-World/(Photo: @joefoodie)And you should apply! It requir... ...standing of its roles and development in American history . The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC wa... ...tes curator Paula Johnson:"We have collected food history for many years, so when we were doing the researc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/26/The-Smithsonian-Is-Hiring-a-Beer-Historian/(Photo of the Midnight Sun Mosque in Inuvik by the US Embassy to Canada)The town of Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic has a growing Muslim community. Many members fast from sunup to sundown during the sacred month of Ramada...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/18/How-to-Fast-for-Ramadan-Where-the-Days-Are-over-20-Hours-Long/(Photo: San Juan Community Home Trust)The community of Oak Bay, British Columbia is booming. Developers are tearing down old houses to make room for newer, more luxurious homes for deep-pocketed residents.A few miles awa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/18/Why-Canadians-Are-Moving-Their-Houses-to-the-United-States/(Photos: Southern Arizona Guide)This is Bad Angel, an American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Pima, Arizona. Like many World War II aircraft, it has kill markings on the side. Do you no...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/17/The-Story-of-Bad-Angel/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdqiyoQNgQ](Video Link)The Faroe Islands in the North Sea offer some of the most beautiful views in the world. But you won't be able to see them on Google Street View.Durita Dahl Andreas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/14/Google-Sheep-View-of-the-Faroe-Islands/According to legend, King Dhammazedi, the ruler of... ...ain.It's one of the greatest mysteries of Burmese history . Scholars and treasure hunters have spent years s... ...he says."But if we look at the three main Burmese history
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/13/The-Great-Bell-of-Dhammazedi/(Photo: Ezra Wolfinger/Israel Antiquities Authority/AP)In the Ponar forest outside of Vilnius, Lithuania, the Nazis murdered and buried about 100,000 people. Later in the war, as the Red Army began to push the Germans ou...
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