What is a Berliner, anyway?
Category: Grapevine’s Atlas
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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.
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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.
How the King of Belgium stole the Congo and everything in it.
Africa’s largest island is located 260 miles off its Eastern coast, but its first settlers took the scenic route.
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Cartographic Conquest
The Central American (almost) war caused by Google Maps.
What can we learn from the “world’s happiest country”?