Just because something is named after a place doesn't mean it came from there.Outback Steak House, the Australian-themed restaurant, was founded in Tampa, Florida. Irish Spring Soap is manufactured by Colgate in the Unit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/22/It-Aint-From-There/In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Except, of course, for all the people who already lived there. Shoot, he wasn't even the first European to arrive the Americas.So what lands did the Europeans actual...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/16/Map-of-Actual-European-Discoveries/GeoGuessr is a game that uses Google Street View. You'll get an image, and you try to guess where in the world it is. I jumped in and scored 4470 right off, which must be awful, because I guessed very wrong. Then I figur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/14/GeoGuessr/The U.S. Census Bureau made a March Madness-style tournament bracket for the populations of the 64 largest American cities (actually, their "metro areas," which is a little different). It's a tournament that New York alw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/03/Population-Bracketology/Thomas Jefferson imagined that what is now the con... ...numental task.In his 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, the distinguished historian...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/10/How-Fast-Could-You-Travel-Across-the-United-States-in-1800/[http://youtu.be/mL8puJMUDpk](YouTube link)Edis Productions edited together footage of places all over the world to make this inspiring and soothing video, sure to make you fall in love with Mother Earth. And then you'll...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/07/Beautiful-Moments/Never underestimate the power of moving water -especially over millions of years. The canyons created by rivers are sculptural wonders found all over the globe. You are probably familiar with the Grand Canyon in the U.S....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/02/The-10-Largest-Canyons-on-Earth/Where I live, directions to place you've never been usually comes with the caveat "You can't miss it." That phrase is a real downer, because when you hear it, you're doomed to become lost. Then when I find the place I'm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/07/Why-is-it-so-hard-to-give-good-directions/Looks ice cold, doesn't it? Actually, the water is... ...eight places featured in this list, although the geography and minerals (and therefore the appearance) of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/05/8-Wonderful-Terraced-Pools-Around-the-World/The journey through Physics can be a treacherous one filled with many setbacks. Thankfully, an enterprising soul decided to sit down in 1939 and draw up a map. The Map of Physics is a "a brief historical outline of the s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/12/This-1939-Map-of-Physics-Is-an-Old-School-Mashup-of-Science-and-Geography/
