Countries where the U.S. government has admitted to launching military intervention. The United States launched 218 military interventions between 1798 and 1990, and at least 251 military interventions between 1991 and 2022
The map that got The Barbie Movie banned in Vietnam: Yes, that is China’s Nine-Dash Line off the coast of “Asia”
Interstate Highway System. Which had a total length of 48,756 miles (78,465 km). The initial cost estimate for the system was $25 billion over 12 years; it ended up costing $114 billion (equivalent to $425 billion in 2006 or $558 billion in 2021) and took 35 years.
Vietnam bans Barbie movie for featuring this map containing “the offending image of [China’s] nine-dash line” in the South China Sea
“Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage, and make a northwest passage to the sea.” First attempts to navigate a route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Arctic Circle. After centuries of false hope, frustration and fatality, only now is that possible.
Australia is both the richest country in the world (measured on median wealth per adult) and the only developed country with endemic blinding trachoma – a bacterial disease of extreme poverty that causes blindness.
