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In September 1655 Dutch soldiers sailed up the Delaware River and took New Sweden, a colony that never had more than about 400 people. Nine years later the Dutch lost New Amste...
Plato had Socrates compare the Greeks to ants or frogs living around a pond. The pond was the Mediterranean, with the Black Sea tuc...
Steel is easy to ignore. Bridges and wind turbines both lean on it, yet few maps show where it comes from. This animated cartogram covers 1800 to 2025 and resizes each producer by its output.
World crude steel output grew from a modelled 23,000 tonnes (25,400 short tons) in 1800 to 1,849.4 million tonnes (2,038.6 million short tons) in 2025. China made 960.8...
Provo, Utah, is the most Republican large metro area in America. It also moved toward Democrats by more than any other. Josh Metcalf of
Qatar posted the highest median monthly wage for 2026, $6,312 in PPP-adjusted dollars, with Switzerland and Luxembourg close behind. Venezuela ranked lowest of the 71 countries tracked, at just $100 a month, the only one where pay lost ground since 2000. The typical increase across the other 70 countries was about 45 percent, led by China’s median wage climbing nearly...