Arianna Winslow

2 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Many of the languages spoken today have roots in some of the world's oldest civilizations. However, many other languages that we interact with are fairly new. Some languages have a blend of both the old and the new (such as English). One of the youngest languages in the world is actually Afrikaans, which has been spoken in South Africa for around 300 years or so. Despite this, the language was actually only officially recognized exactly 100 years ago, as of 2025.

2 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account If someone asked you who the "first President of the United States" was, you're quite likely to exclaim "George Washington!" immediately. You're not wrong, but what if someone told you that someone else was called "president" in America before Washington? As it turns out, there were other "presidents" in what we would now call America before George Washington (whose house you can still visit at Mount Vernon), but they didn't represent...

3 weeks ago | thetravel.com | A Cat |Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Recently, in 2025, an incredible discovery made headlines. As it turns out, a very surprising state is one of the world's prehistoric places with ancient sea monsters. In the U.S. state of Mississippi, a geologist discovered a vertebra from one of the most incredible extinct creatures that once dominated the Earth. This massive creature was a mosasaur, and it lived in the ocean between 145 and 66 million years ago. The discovery alone...

3 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account When you think about the extinct creatures that once dominated Earth, you probably imagine towering dinosaurs or trumpeting wooly mammoths. However, during a time of Earth's history that would have been prehistoric even to the dinosaurs, the Earth was ruled by upcoming forests, slippery invertebrates, and strange, newly evolved reptiles. This was the Carboniferous period, a time when the world looked very different than it does today....

3 weeks ago | thetravel.com | Karla Demery |Arianna Winslow |Gia Marcos |Lissa Reed

Historic Florida State Capitol Building Pre-Colonial and Native American History (Before 1513) A flock of White Ibis soar across Apalachee Bay at St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in North Florida. Florida was inhabited by Native American tribes, including the Timucua, Calusa, and Apalachee, long before European contact. These tribes thrived in Florida’s diverse ecosystems, building complex societies and trading networks.