The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, but the territory had been on the real estate market for a decade. Russia wasn't making money from it and, as a result of the Crimean War, Russia was also reassessi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/02/07/When-Liechtenstein-Considering-Buying-Alaska/Mormon founder Joseph Smith was killed in 1844, and in 1847, his followers settled in the far west wilderness that would eventually be Utah, under the leadership of Brigham Young. They just wanted to be left alone withou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/08/Utahs-First-Federal-Surveyor-Fled-the-Territory-Fearing-for-His-Life/Between 1816 and 1836, the border between Missouri and Iowa was surveyed several times, because the first survey was done so badly, and there were four possible borders, all slightly different. The nine-mile-wide band of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/26/One-Sloppy-Land-Surveyor-Almost-Caused-a-War-Between-Missouri-and-Iowa/The 1.5-acre Pheasant Island is in the middle of the Bidasoa River, which is the border between France and Spain. It's the place where the the 1635-1659 war between France and Spain was officially ended with the Treaty o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/28/Pheasant-Island-Is-Sometimes-In-France-Sometimes-In-Spain/(Image: Google Maps)On December 6, 1917, Finland declared independence from Russia. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of that event, its friendly neighbor, Norway, would like to give it a mountain.The Norwegian governme...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/28/Norway-Considers-Giving-Finland-a-Mountain-to-Celebrate-Its-100th-Birthday/(Photo: Damien Ramon Naidoo)Once upon a time, to make lead round shot, nations and businesses would build shot towers. These are industrial sites sometimes hundreds of feet tall. Workers would drip molten lead from the t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/27/10-Historic-Shot-Towers-around-the-World/(Photo: @joefoodie)And you should apply! It requir... ...standing of its roles and development in American history . The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC wa... ...tes curator Paula Johnson:"We have collected food history for many years, so when we were doing the researc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/26/The-Smithsonian-Is-Hiring-a-Beer-Historian/(Photo of the Midnight Sun Mosque in Inuvik by the US Embassy to Canada)The town of Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic has a growing Muslim community. Many members fast from sunup to sundown during the sacred month of Ramada...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/18/How-to-Fast-for-Ramadan-Where-the-Days-Are-over-20-Hours-Long/(Photo: San Juan Community Home Trust)The community of Oak Bay, British Columbia is booming. Developers are tearing down old houses to make room for newer, more luxurious homes for deep-pocketed residents.A few miles awa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/18/Why-Canadians-Are-Moving-Their-Houses-to-the-United-States/(Photos: Southern Arizona Guide)This is Bad Angel, an American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Pima, Arizona. Like many World War II aircraft, it has kill markings on the side. Do you no...
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