Articles by Frank Jacobs

Mind-boggling as it is, they're often one and the same.

Launched in 1977 and now nearly 15 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 continues its journey at 38,000 miles per hour.

Can you guess who it is?

Two geographically separate populations of cute cephalopods once mated a very long time ago.

The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies, condensed into one attractive snapshot.

In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.

There are nearly 100 named "Troy."

The first of many of these puzzling objects was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don't know what they were for.

An Edinburgh University project uses data to track the victims of Scottish "witch-prickers" in the 16th and 17th centuries.

On New Year's Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific liner steamed into history. Or did he?

One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was the virgin, and rather powerless.

The Centennial State is technically a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.

How a renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lifetime—a lost city that once housed 20,000 people.

Minnesota's "Lost Forty" survived the lumberjack's ax thanks to a improperly drawn lake.

A representation of the Bamum kingdom is a rare example of early-20th-century indigenous African cartography.

Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.

Legendary cartoonist John Groth's pictorial map captures L.A.'s film factories in their Golden Age.

The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.