Alonso Álvarez de Pineda made the first map labeling those waters as the Gulf of Mexico in 1519. Before that, you likely ...

Stripping an Indigenous place name and imposing a new one on maps, atlases, and our phones’ navigational systems is an act of ...

Burlington, who plans to introduce a bill that would set up a task force to review past tribal recognition decisions in the state.

First impressions of Mick Fleetwood are usually something like (to paraphrase the Harry Nilsson song): “Jesus Christ, you’re ...

Most of them - predictably - are in the USA, which has a habit of pinching our English town names. America - which famously has its own Boston, it's own Cambridge and not one but three Londons - also ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

A reader takes a whimsical view toward the president’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Caves are pretty fascinating places, and larger caves might be even more interesting. In any case, this huge cave system has ...

Académie du Vin Library is excited to announce the release of "The Wines of California," by the renowned wine writer Elaine ...

Sonoma, CA / London, UK, February 2025— Académie du Vin Library is excited to announce the release of “The Wines of ...