Geography, destinations, and understanding the places we visit.
11 reads to exploreThe tunnel connecting New York City and Weehawken, New Jersey, is the Lincoln Tunnel, named for Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president. It opened to traffic on December 22, 1937, with a single two-lane tube.
Settle in for a read →The message "You're previewing a catalog item that you're not eligible to redeem due to region or other restrictions" means the storefront is showing you item details while withholding the redemption or purchase button.
Settle in for a read →The famous Mount Fuji peak stands on Honshu, Japan's largest island. The summit sits at 3,776 meters (12,389 feet) on the boundary between Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, roughly 100 kilometers southwest of central Tokyo.
Settle in for a read →A memorial statue of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was reported vandalized, and the reliable way to answer what happened is to separate three things: the incident as described in attributed reporting, the pattern such cases follow in…
Settle in for a read →The seabird you're most likely to see flying over Monterey Bay is the sooty shearwater, which crosses the bay in flocks that can number in the thousands from roughly April through October.
Settle in for a read →East Meon and its surrounding farmland sit inside the South Downs National Park, which has covered this part of Hampshire since it formally became fully operative on 31 March 2011.
Settle in for a read →No, Nepal is not the country where Mount Fuji is located. Mount Fuji sits on Honshu, Japan's main island, roughly 100 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, and its summit stands at 3,776 meters (12,389 feet) — a figure the Geospatial Information…
Settle in for a read →The statement is false as written. Terrorist planners do sometimes target tourist locations, and the "not DoD-related" clause is the tell: most terrorists are not choosing targets by whether they link to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Settle in for a read →Registan Square in Samarkand is a paved public plaza framed on three sides by three separate madrassahs, and the "building detail" question is really about what each of those three structures is made of, how it is laid out, and why it…
Settle in for a read →Death Valley's most famous attractions are Badwater Basin, Zabriskie Point, Artists Drive, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Dante's View, Ubehebe Crater, and the Racetrack.
Settle in for a read →Museums have been publishing collection catalogs online since the mid-1990s, and the benefits are real: access for researchers who can't travel, searchable provenance, and a public record that survives floods and fires.
Settle in for a read →