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The process of mapping Middle Eastern geology in search for precious resources was quickly taken up by multinational corporations and specifically the ‘Seven Sisters’ who had claims most of the Middle East and it was these Seven companies that ruled,…

This is a botanical illustration of the water mellon (Citrullus or Anguria) taken from Elizabeth Blackwell's 1737 "A Curious Herbal," plate 157.

The center of the immediate protest after the shooting was located on West Florissant Avenue, a major artery that runs through the Suburb, at the intersection with the road where Michael Brown was shot. The many stores along the road were the target…

One of the most ambitious architectural works during this period, the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry if built would have been one of the tallest and largest complexes in the world. If built, the complex would have stretched over four…

In 1933, an agreement was negotiated to increase the terms of the D’Arcy concession to 1994; however by 1951
said contract was annulled and the British were expelled from the Braim with riots which came to be known as
the Abadan Crisis. In October…

A reportage by Stay Wayman for Life magazine

A internet user drawn map of the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (中国版战略载体：一带一路)

An unrealized project, the Aeroflot Building was posed to be placed where the Belorussky Station was built. Dmitry Chechulin, later becoming chief architecture of Moscow in 1945, intending the building to memorialize the heroism supposedly typified…