It’s a political tactic that has lasted as long as maps have, according to Karl Offen, a geography professor at Syracuse ...

Did he ever come across the map or the Introduction to Cosmography? Did he ever learn that the New World had been named in his honor? The odds are that he did not. Neither the book nor the name is ...

If you're OK with that, you can spend hours with a nifty tool from NASA: Spell out any name using real satellite images from around the world. It could be rivers, mountains, islands or coastlines.

From Trump's flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf to the reignited conflict in Kashmir, these are some of the ...