July 29, 2014 0 A Loo of Their Own In 1917, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first female Member of Congress. But for decades, women made [...]
July 28, 2014 0 Food Fights The March 26, 2012 National Basketball Association game between the Orlando Magic and the Toronto Raptors was [...]
July 24, 2014 0 The Sun in the Home Pictured above is a Nazi-backed German magazine published in 1935. The magazine is titled “Sonne ins [...]
July 23, 2014 0 Leasing the Kingdom At only 61 square miles (160 km^2) and as home to only about 37,000 people, Liechtenstein is one of the [...]
July 22, 2014 0 Face Off On August 2, 1990, Iraq, led by dictator Saddam Hussein, invaded neighboring Kuwait. In response, a coalition [...]
July 21, 2014 0 A Letter-Writing Campaign The Welsh county of Carmarthenshire is home to about 180,000 people spread across about 2,400 km^2. At a [...]
July 18, 2014 0 The Fatberg The community of Kingston is in southwest London, next to the River Thames. It’s a relatively well-off [...]
July 17, 2014 0 Vote Early, Vote Often Heydar Aliyev was a former KGB member and leader of Azerbaijan when it was part of the Soviet Union, yet [...]
July 16, 2014 0 Mudhattan Pictured above is a city, which, except for the surroundings — empty plains followed by plateaus [...]
July 15, 2014 0 Cat Islands Japan’s Aoshima Island is tiny: only about 44,000 meters^2 (that’s about 0.017 square miles) in total [...]