The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Officials appealed to the public for help in finding the person who shot the right-wing political activist. The F.B.I.

That’s Fort Ross State Historic Park in a nutshell – California’s Russian plot twist sitting pretty on the Sonoma Coast. You might think you know California history – the Spanish missions, the Gold ...

The daytime charm of this 19th-century burial ground—with its quirky epitaphs and tropical foliage—gives way to something more primeval as night approaches, when centuries of island history seem to ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Trapcode Mir is a paid plugin by Redgiant. In this tutorial, I will use Mir to create a moving river and then attach it to ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...