Saddleworth's villages grew on wool and turnpikes
How turnpikes, the Standedge canal tunnel and the woollen mills built Saddleworth's Pennine villages, and which sights and walks show it best.
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Landscapes, boundaries and the connections that shape a place.
US Four Corners marker is at most 1,800 feet off, not 2.5 miles
A surveyor fixed the Four Corners point in 1875 on the law's line from Washington, not Greenwich. That explains why a claimed 2.5-mile error never existed.
Mont-Saint-Michel could have stopped being an island by 2040
A causeway built in 1878 let silt choke the bay around Mont-Saint-Michel. France tore it out and dammed a river to flush the mud back to sea.
Nations choose their side of the date line
No single authority draws the International Date Line, so nations near it pick whichever side keeps their own calendar in one piece.
UN votes to retire the Mercator map for Equal Earth
The UN voted 164 to 1 to phase out the Mercator map, which shrinks Africa to the look of Greenland, in favour of the 2018 Equal Earth projection.
Adam's Bridge: a sunken shoal chain between India and Sri Lanka
Adam's Bridge is a 29 km chain of shoals between India and Sri Lanka, almost all underwater, that NASA says people could cross on foot until the 15th century.
Chile fought a war and gained a third of its territory
The Spanish colony met fierce Mapuche resistance in the south. Victory over Peru and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific then grew its territory by a third.