X user Patrick Heizer brings to our attention this geographical oddity. Under the current law of the sea, nations have exclusive economic regulatory authority over a certain distance beyond their territorial seas.Many of...

Do you see this lake? It's Yathkyed Lake in northern Canada. There are several islands in the lake. The largest island has its own lake.That lake has several islands. One of those islands has a lake in it.And that lake,...

While reading a biography of Zachary Taylor by Joh...  ...vet rank of major--the first in American military history .

YouTuber Max Miller makes historic recipes and shares the results online. Recently, he posted a video about a cheesecake recipe in a book by Cato the Elder, a Roman statesman famous for ending all speeches in the Senate,...

A trend on X lately is to share photos of historically significant buildings that have been preserved by being repurposed by modern businesses. Not all of the descriptions are correct. For example, I've verified that a p...

It would not have occurred to me that the landlocked Idaho has access to the sea for oceanic transport, but it does. The Snake River touches the Port of Lewiston on the western border of the state. That river connects to...

Before World War II, dirigibles appeared to have a...  ...t Corporation built one in 1929.Robert Guttman of History .net says that the ZMC-2 was covered with very thi...

The Texians' dreams of independence from the tyranny of Santa Anna seemed hopeless. The well-organized and equipped Mexican army had shattered the formations of the Texian settlers who were in full flight.General Sam Hou...

Canada and France share a maritime border, despite the ejection of France from North America in the Seven Years' War. Article 6 of the 1763 Treaty of Paris allowed France to retain the tiny islands of St. Pierre and Miqu...

The Kunlun Mountains form the northern boundary of Tibet. If you stand on summit of them and look northwest, you should be able to see Pik Dankova, the tallest mountain in the Tian Shan range of Kyrgyzstan 329 miles away...