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Years of the introduction of women's suffrage from New Zealand to Saudi Arabia

A 102-Year-Old Lady at the Polls in New Zealand in 1916. New Zealand was the first country in the world where women won the right to vote, in 1893. In Europe, the first country where women gained the right to vote and to sit in parliament, in 1906,

Open book with a table of the populations of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Moscow for 1800 to 1901.

Geography · London · Moscow · New York · Society · Paris · Saint Petersburg

Population growth of Moscow and Saint Petersburg from 1800 to 1900

Population of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg and Moscow in 1800, 1830, 1871 and 1900. Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000

Satellite image of Anchorage, Alaska, showing the airport, the bay and city blocks, taken by the Resurs-P satellite on 6 August 2025.

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Roscosmos publishes satellite images of Alaska and Anchorage ahead of the 15 August talks

Roscosmos on What Is Happening in Alaska. Images received from the Elektro-L and Arktika-M satellites show that the territory of Alaska is for the most part covered by cloud. A high-resolution image of Anchorage was taken by the Resurs-P satellite

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Abandoned state farms and factories in an argument on lost civilisations in canyons and rocks

The El Silar Complex in Bolivia Looks Just as the Splendid Achievements of Past Civilisations Do in the Perspective of Our Own Day. Have you ever driven past a ruined Sovkhoz or an abandoned factory? Many of the everyday phenomena of the developed past, seen through the sad prism of

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51% of Europe's area lies within the territory of the former USSR, and if one takes the Russian Empire, rather more still

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The Trans-Eurasian Development Belt and experts' doubts over its multitrillion-dollar cost

Remember how, in 2015, the head of Russian Railways proposed building a super-highway from London to New York across the whole of Eurasia and North America, to include a railway, a motorway and oil pipelines? The project was called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development, but the prospect of its

Three-dimensional relief map of Asia on a white background, with the high orange Tibetan Plateau at the centre and blue plains and dark mountains around it.

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Relief map of Asia showing the West Siberian Plain and mountain systems

A relief map of Asia. On the one hand, one is struck by the singularity of the West Siberian Plain; on the other, by the impassable wall of mountain systems running from west to east.

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Provinces of pre-revolutionary France and their replacement by departments during the Revolution

Map of the French provinces before their abolition and division into departments in 1789. Before the Revolution, France was divided into provinces, many of which go back to medieval kingdoms and feudal territories. These provinces differed considerably in their laws, customs and administrative systems. During the Revolution they were replaced

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I wonder when the map will be updated

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Paratethys as the largest lake on Earth and the three seas that appeared after its disappearance

Millions of years ago, Paratethys was the largest lake on Earth, covering 2.8 million square kilometres and stretching from present-day France to the Altai. The water level in the lake stood 80 metres above that of today's World Ocean. Paratethys, often called an ocean, existed some

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National Flags of the Warships of Various Countries, Published in London in 1894

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Sanctuary of Odysseus with votive offerings from across the Greek world found on Ithaca

A sanctuary of Odysseus has been discovered on the island of Ithaca, containing a multitude of votive offerings to the legendary Homeric hero from every corner of the Greek world, reports ArkeoNews. It was, in fact, the accumulation of ritual figurines of Odysseus and other votive objects that led scholars