The world is getting more and more accessible, but there are still places that are difficult to get to. The reasons are varied: rough terrain, difficult or dangerous conditions, politics, lack of facilities, and just pla...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/13/Whats-The-Most-Difficult-Place-To-Get-To-In-the-World/The Holy Grail is supposedly the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper, on in some traditions, a cup used to catch his blood as He was crucified. It wasn't a sought-after relic until hundreds of years afterward, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/06/6-Stops-on-the-Hunt-for-the-Holy-Grail/When you see a list of trivia about the states, you are sure to hear about the most famous facts; you know, the ones you've heard so many times. Wendover productions has some facts about all the 50 states, but these are...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/31/Every-State-in-the-US/What states make up what Americans consider “The South”? It’s not so much climate as it is culture. I live in Kentucky, which was a slave state before the Civil War, but stayed with the Union. The peopl...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/14/Wheres-the-South/You know how the Mercator Map makes Greenland look... ...ed The True Size can help dispel those notions of geography that are so ingrained. Type in a nation and drag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/06/05/Correcting-the-Mercator-Map/If you were to do a Google search for Null Island, you’d find it has a website, a Wikipedia entry, a Twitter account, and plenty of maps. That’s pretty impressive -for a place that doesn’t exist. Null I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/10/The-Geographical-Oddity-of-Null-Island/(Photo: Raita Futo)You can look out the window on the airplane and see beautiful mountains, seas, islands, rivers, and more. What are you looking at? There's an app for that.Shane Loeffler, a geologist, developed Flyover...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/11/How-a-Geologist-Designed-the-Perfect-App-for-the-Window-Seat/In this video, people in Ireland try to identify states in the U.S. on a map. This should be funny, right? After all, they’re not even Americans, and there are a lot of states on that map. And this is from the same...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/02/Irish-People-Try-To-Identify-The-American-States/No Name Road can be found in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Noname Avenue is in Hackensack, Minnesota, and No Name Boulevard is in Longmont, Colorado. In fact, there are streets named like that all over the country. How did th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/15/Where-the-Streets-Have-No-Name/Yes, we do have world maps from the time Jesus was born. That’s mainly thanks to a geographer named Strabo, who was born at the edge of the Roman Empire, in what is now Turkey, about 64 BC. He was educated far beyo...
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