President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the map to justify the United States entering World War II—but as one historian told ...

The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book Politische Geographie (Political ...

In Europe, Germany was made to shoulder the blame for the bloodshed of the previous four years, and lost territory to its neighbours as the map of the ... for causing World War Two, by creating ...

The record for documented longevity among men, meanwhile, still belongs to Japan's Jiroemon Kimura (1897-2013), who lived ... in Liverpool. During World War II he was spared from going to the ...

From Sunda Kelapa to Batavia to modern-day Jakarta, explore how Indonesia’s capital has evolved through the centuries — in ...

Over time, I have gotten to know many Palestinians. Like Jewish people I’ve known, they tend to be bright, inquisitive, and ...

Compared with the Federation and Millennium droughts, the World War II drought had more breaks. However, it also had more periods of intense dryness. Map: Rainfall deciles for the World War II drought ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

And he slapped 145 percent tariffs on imports from China, the world’s largest manufacturer, although he has now agreed to cut this rate to 30 percent. The result has been a raft of trade wars between ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See – Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday offered to mediate between leaders of countries at war, saying that he ... who became head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics last week ...

Pope Leo on Wednesday offered to mediate between leaders of countries at war, saying that he himself ... The new US pontiff, who became head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics last week ...

The trove, in toto, consists of over 635,000 maps, 15,000 atlases and 250 globes, with some extremely old relics on display, ...