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A Spy, a Map, and the Quest for Power in 16th-Century Europe
In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean, innovative maps ... reflects the attempts to pack a map with key political, cultural, and economic ...
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THE PROBLEM OF THE WEST
A glance at the map of the United ... was the proper school of political talents. If the Western people get power into their hands, they will ruin the Atlantic interest. The back members are ...
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Coastal cities are increasingly vulnerable to hurricanes
in various coastal cities, fast population growth has left an increasing number of people inhabiting areas that are ...
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The Forger's Inspiration
The inscription on the Canerio Map links the mystery island with the Corte-Real brothers, and it may, in fact, represent Newfoundland, shifted to the mid-Atlantic for political reasons.
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Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.
Coastal cities’ growing hurricane vulnerability is fed by both climate change and unbridled population growth
Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t ...
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What Makes an American?
The one serious crisis of this kind that America has known, the Civil War, showed the frightful results of a real political conflict ... "Thank God for the Atlantic Ocean," is not due to passing ...
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Apex predator makes landmark return to Colorado park century after vanishing from area
An apex predator has “spent some time” in the iconic Colorado lands where the elusive creatures first roamed — before ...
Ireland and Nato: a ‘freeloading’ arrangement that doesn’t need fixing - or require membership
The military alliance would have little to gain from Irish membership, while Ireland’s strategic geography means it enjoys ...
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Apex predator makes landmark return to Colorado park century after vanishing from area
The gray wolf wandered through Rocky Mountain National Park in August, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s monthly wolf tracking map ... Ocean and river systems that drain into the ...