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Johns Hopkins University Press and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched the world’s first searchable digital map ...

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Doug Specht does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

History was made when the high altitude Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh became the first cold desert in India to be listed in the UNESCO Global Network of Biosphere Reserves. The announcement is a ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name. National Geographic Society maps supply a backdrop for a meeting between ...