In the summer of 2019, the temperature rose a few degrees in Greenland, but it wasn’t solely due to climate change; rather, it was because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea to buy the region. This idea was revealed by the Wall Street Journal, reporting that the U.S. government claimed it could offer Greenlanders more […]
Territories
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Marie Byrd Land: The Largest Unclaimed Territory on Earth
Marie Byrd Land is a vast territory that, due to its immense size and location in the most inhospitable continent on the planet, has managed to remain in a curious political limbo: it has not been claimed by any sovereign nation. With an area of 1,610,000 square kilometers (similar in size to Mongolia or Iran), […]
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The Great Taboo, the 240 square kilometer area sealed for eight centuries where the tomb of Genghis Khan is believed to be
The national literary work par excellence of Mongolia is the Secret History of the Mongols, of which the author is unknown, but it is known to have been composed between 1227 and 1228, shortly after the death of Genghis Khan. The original document is not preserved, but a copy a century later and written in […]
