On a map of northeastern Africa, along the border between Egypt and Sudan, there is a small landlocked rectangle of desert with a peculiar distinction: it belongs to no one.…
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Of all the strange-but-true stories in the annals of history, few can top this one: a modern nation, armed with machine guns and commanded by military officers, declared what…
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Boston has its molasses; London has its beer. On an autumn afternoon in 1814, in one of the poorest districts of the world's richest city, a wall of porter…
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Every city keeps a story that outsiders refuse to believe until they look it up. Boston's is the one about the molasses.
It goes like this: on an unseasonably…