Historians and archaeologists say the oldest and largest ancient pyramids are in Egypt and Mexico. One Bosnian wizard says they’re wrong.
Category: Grapevine’s Atlas
Categories
Fire Underfoot
Separated by 9,900 miles, two underground blazes still burn after 50 years.
Categories
How Egyptian was Cleopatra?
Three hundred years of advanced incest, all for this.
Gerald Bull wanted to use a very big gun to shoot a satellite into space. Saddam Hussein wanted a very big gun.
What is a Berliner, anyway?
Categories
Florence, Y’all
Florence y’all
In 1960, 2,000 people lived in the Chagos Islands. 15 years and one backroom nuclear missile deal later, none of them did.
Sequoyah didn’t know how to read; he still taught the Cherokee to write.
Categories
The Polish Tango
Let’s take Poland and push it somewhere else.
How a population of prehistoric plankton led to particular political prominence in the American south.