The Business Standard

A century of new flags: How independence shaped the world

Taken together, these stories show that independence is not a guarantee of stability or prosperity. It is simply the beginning of a new chapter, one shaped by leadership, resources, geography, global ...

Meet some of the collectors that put Miami on the art world’s map

Explore how private collectors and institutions like the Rubell Museum and Margulies Collection helped build Miami’s cultural identity and attract global art audiences.

5 Out-Of-Sight Supercars From The 1970s

The 1970s were the decade of the rise of the supercar, but not every model got the same amount of love. Here are some ...
Daily Mail

Google Maps for the ancient world! Incredible interactive map lets you explore the vast network of Roman roads stretching throughout Europe

Monty Python famously asked what the Romans ever did for us, but as a new map shows, they constructed a vast network of roads that revolutionized the world. Called Itiner-e, the incredible map ...
The Conversation

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

Doug Specht does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
USA Today

Scientists create 1st-ever 3-dimensional map of world outside Earth's solar system

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...
Sports Illustrated

Five Essential World Series Cards of the 1970s

It took 162 regular season games played over six months, a wild card round, four division series, and two league championship series to get here, but the World Series is finally upon us. With the Fall ...
autoevolution

World's Rarest 1970 Ford Mustang Hides a Secret Under the White Paint

Ford Mustang sales dropped by a whopping 36% in 1970, but it remained America's most popular pony car with 191,239 units delivered. This number puts the 1970 Mustang into common territory in 2025, but ...
The Conversation

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...
The Washington Post

Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...
The New York Times

How Brazil won the 1970 World Cup: Pele’s return, a fearsome front five – but ‘an incompetent goalkeeper’

This is the ninth in a series by The Athletic looking back at the winners of each men’s World Cup. The previous articles have looked at Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1934 and again in 193 8, Uruguay in ...
Reuters

African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size

LONDON/DAKAR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 14 story has been refiled to clarify the number of AU member states in paragraph 3) The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments ...