Sheinbaum Pardo also displayed a separate, 19th-century map showing the immense territory that previously belonged to Mexico, including what are today roughly the U.S. states of California ...

Image via Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn’s New Year Celebrations Brooklyn had many different ways to celebrate the New Year. Of course, in the late 19th century, your ability to celebrate depended on your ...

Hebrew (Middle East - Israel/Palestine): Hebrew is more than 3,000 years old and was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century. Greek (Greece): Originating in the southern Balkans ...

Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one: electricity. That’s where America has a long way to go. The development of ...

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Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS might have been all about ...

Voter turnout in 2024 presidential election was close to the record high set in 2020 and the second-highest turnout in the past century, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the ...

For the first time, an official map from the late Edo Period (1603-1867) was found that shows the now-disputed Takeshima islets as Japanese territory, a Japanese think tank said. The navigational ...