The history of the United States is such, though, that many of its towns and cities have simply been given names honoring ...

They've created an Atlas Of True Names that deconstructs all the ordinary ... Hormes and Peust caution that readers should accept their map "just as an invitation to the world as a strange ...

One explorer wrote the name Kansas on a map and after that ... These are other states that were almost a part of the United States. Texas comes from the word teysha meaning “hello friend ...

The folks at WordTips compiled an interesting set of data that plots the literal meaning of US state and city names on maps ...

It’s almost impossible to understate how popular the name Mary once was in the United States ... name in 28 states, followed by William and Michael. As for the girls’ map, Emily and Madison ...

Republicans saw this year's Senate map as a seemingly once-in-a-decade opportunity, but the chamber is tightening to Montana ...

Trace the Mormons' path from New York to Utah Territory using this map. "In the 1820s ... and the settlement is now United States territory. The Mormons want to name the territory Deseret, after ...

Mount Adams, the long-dormant volcano in Southwest Washington, recently experienced some unusual seismic activity.

Hurricane John has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast Mexico and is expected to bring hurricane-strength winds, rain ...

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael Donnelly is running for a second term against Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge ...

Hurricane Helene, expected to make landfall in Florida, shares striking similarities with a storm of the same name from 1958.

The rarest of the three cactus species native to Minnesota, the ball cactus - also known as the pincushion cactus - is found in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states. The Minnesota population of ...