Russia’s economy was in bad shape after it lost the Crimean war to Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire in 1856. Fearing a British takeover of its Russian-America land holding of Alaska, it decided to offer to sel... Read More By Joe Van Os on Apr 13, 2022
In the mid-1800s, the legendary American whaling captain Charles Melville Scammon accidentally discovered the narrow opening to a large, sheltered lagoon along the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. What Scamm... Read More By Wayne Lynch on Apr 11, 2022