In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, we are publishing an excerpt from National Geographic's Atlas of World War II. This new book tells the full dramatic story of WWII through maps, including rare ...

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From mythical winds to desert nomads, Volkswagen has a habit of picking strange names for its compacts, sedans, and SUVs.

Living in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains and having completed the brutally challenging Marathon des Sables, Alice Morrison ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Step outside on a clear night, trace the hazy stripe of the Milky Way and enjoy the comfortable illusion that you more or ...

Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula, Tunis and Nouakchott, now the capital of Mauretania, and how the city’s ...