Greek Reporter1d
Nero’s Statue at Corinth: A Relic of Rome’s Gift of Freedom
The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.
Madison WMTV on MSN7d
Icequakes, not earthquakes, shake Madison’s Isthmus
Loud sounds have been echoing through the Isthmus followed by the ground shaking, and a natural occurrence called icequakes are to blame.
You may have felt the earth move, Madison, but that was no earthquake
As more moderate winter temperatures settle into the region, Gretchen Price explores the frozen surface of Lake Monona during ...
Smithsonian Magazine23d
Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements
In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...
The $650M fight to save the Isthmus of Chignecto, the narrow strip of marshland connecting N.B. and N.S.
Isthmus is a Greek word that became Latinized, changing its ending from “-os” to “-us,” for a narrow strip of land connecting ...
The New York Times6y
THE POET OF THE ISTHMUS.; " Panama Patchwork," by James Stanley Gilbert, Made More Interesting by the Poet's Recent Death.
Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Montgomery Schuyler. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this ...
PBS13y
TR and the Panama Canal
By December 1905, yellow fever had been officially eradicated on the Isthmus. In November, 1906, Roosevelt himself visited the canal, posing at the controls of a Bucyrus shovel. It seemed that the ...