The 15th century also saw the rise of the Songhai Empire and their Warrior King, Sonni Ali, descended from the fishing tribes of the Niger River. He captured Timbuktu and the other cities along ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links ...

A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

At launch, the Apple Maps web beta included basic functionality like searching for points of interest, seeing ratings, browsing area Guides, and getting directions. With Look Around, the web ...

There is still a very clear difference between the two services, and the way they navigate, but there are times where it feels as though an eventual merging of Google Maps and Waze is inevitable.

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism; By Alan Lester Hurst; 304 pp., 34.95 Pennycuick, a British Indian Army engineer, achieved deification for building the Mullaperiyar Dam ...

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Chinese archaeologists uncovered the oldest city ever found from the Shang Dynasty, over 3,000 years old, at the entrance of ...

You’re probably familiar with the ways you can use Google Maps to get from A to B, or to look up reviews on the nearest coffee shop, or to find your way when lost—but the apps for Android ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...

Katsina State Government is set to lease out the multi-billion naira Songhai farm to a private company, Omena Nigeria Limited, at the cost of N600 million for a period of three years. This was ...