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“It has been my misfortune to be attacked with small-pox while en route for India. This circumstance will necessitate a twenty-one days’ quarantine at...

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Russia

In 1823, cholera descended on the Russian Empire for the first time. By 1830, according to a study by R. E. McGrew published in...

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Global

When the maritime “Yellow Jack,” is flown by ships entering a harbor, it means the ship is under quarantine. According to Adnan Qureshi in...

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United States

In 1888, Elizabeth Seaman, a journalist with the New York World better known by her pen name Nelly Bly, suggested to her editor that...

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The Albatross Bar on the tiny island of Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean, is...

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South Africa

This had to have been the most unusual pub in the world—inside a 72-foot-high Baobab tree aged at more than 1,000 years old in...

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United States

Gates of the Arctic — 9,591 visitors Lake Clark — 14,479 visitors Kobuk Valley — 14,937 visitors Isle Royale — 25,798 visitors American Samoa...

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United States

Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska is the largest national park in the US, encompassing 13.2 million acres. That means it is the same size as...

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United States

The New Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps program planted 3 billion trees, laid 1 million miles of roads and trails, stocked over 1 billion...

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South America

Nearly all bananas consumed in the U.S. come from plantations in Latin America. According to the International Labor Rights Forum, the banana industry has...

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Ghana

The International Cocoa Initiative, a charity promoting child protection in cocoa-growing regions of the world, describes cocoa farming as the backbone of Ghana’s economy....

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India

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi often refers to himself as “Chaiwala” — the term for a tea-seller on the Indian subcontinent.  His father sold...

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