Economist Max Weber is perhaps most famous for his The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism which proposed the theory that the Protestant work ethic, based on the individuals need to be a good productive person to obtain salvation, was the...

In the past Catholics only had the text-based MassTimes website to locate churches "worldwide." Now there is Find a Catholic Mass, a Google Maps based mashup which is currently in the Alpha-stage of testing. The United States seems pretty well...

It has long been claimed borders are merely lines on a map. The argument is based on the assumption humans can only do so much because the Earth and its life system is so vast. However, unlike the humorous spoof Middle East border article where...

Lienzos are Central American Indian-made cloths that double as maps and story telling devices. Lienzos reached either zenith during the age of Spanish arrival. The Guatemalan Universidad Francisco Marroquin has an online interactive version of the...

Map of the Ancient Eastern European Cultures: Click to Enlarge Almost 2,000 years before the start of Ancient Egypt and around the time ancient Mesopotamia was becoming the cradle of civilization, present-day Bulgaria, Romania, and Moldova were...