A major West Coast port city, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth most populated city in... read more BAdd New Item Featured Popular Latest Top 10 Worst NFL Teams to...
To most people Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica are merely romantic names, unless they collect postage stamps, for this one rule holds good all over the world:“the emptier the country's national treasury, the more elaborate its stamps”. But the next country, the Republic of Pa...
Forced from power in Nicaragua after less than 10 months, Walker received a hero’s welcome upon his return to the United States, especially in the South. In 1860, he launched yet another filibustering operation, this time to Honduras. But the British government, which had important colonies ...
Additionally, the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras holds the mantle as the world’s most dangerous city with 1,319 people murdered in 2014 and a murder rate of 171.20 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. On a broader scale, Honduras also tops the table internationally with 7,172 murders in...
In Honduras, Mitch left a country with no clear path to recovery. With infrastructure destroyed and unemployment on the rise following the destruction of vital plantations, one of the poorest and most debt-laden nations on Earth was faced with locating $1.7 billion to get it back on its feet...
read more Iceland Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its surrounding areas) is home to over 65% of the population. Iceland is the only part of...
Because of Okinawa's strategic importance, they fly in all kinds of weather, passing over 16 schools, hospitals, and city offices in the immediate area, plus 3,000 people living in what should be the "clear zone" around the base. MCAS Futenma is slated to close soon, but there's a ...
In November 1998, this category-five hurricane brought record rainfall to Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, causing catastrophic flooding. It went on to become the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, with as many as 20,000 people killed. Around 2.7 million were left homeless and the ...