Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
Sandhamn is a settlement on Sandn ("Sand Island") - located in Stockholm's Outer Archipelago - although most people actually refer to the island by it...
When Victoria's son Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) is Prince of Wales, he needs a home for himself and his new bride, Alexandra. The Queen buy...
This map shows how the SARS virus spread and provides a brief description of its early days.
About a thousand years after Scandinavians and Saxons began their invasions of Britain, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) started work on his famousCarta Marin...
This image depicts Heinrich Schliemann before he began his excavations at the Hisarlik Mound.
When the Terror and Erebus went missing, how did searchers know where to look for them?
To find oil underwater, researchers conduct seismic surveys to determine “what lies beneath.”
In the fall of 1187, Saladin and his forces besieged the city of Jerusalem. It was not the first time the ancient city was subjected to a siege by for...
There was a real Dracula. Learn how Sigismund of Luxembourg (1369-1437) gave the Dracula family its name.
Beginning at least in the first half of the first millenium, B.C., people began to travel along a route we know today as "The Silk Road."
Robert Louis Stevenson lived at Skerrymore Cottage, in Bournemouth, when he wrote "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." It was here that he destr...
Assault troops who neared the Normandy shoreline, where they would soon face unspeakably difficult conditions, had already endured a difficult crossin...
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