Kim Ann Zimmermann

Carstensz Pyramid rises 16,024 feet above the Indonesian jungle. It is the highest island peak in the world.

Mount Vinson is the eighth-highest mountain in the world.

Mount Elbrus is in the Caucasus Range, the mountains that separate Europe and Asia.

Olduvai Gorge is a rich archaeological site in Tanzania where evidence of the first humans has been found.

Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps most noted as an artist, was also an architect, inventor and chronicler of science, among other outlets for his talents.

King Richard III has been portrayed in fiction as a tyrant, but the facts are not quite as bloody.

The Andes Mountains stretch about 4,500 miles along the western coast of South America.

These high-speed rivers of air affect climate and weather.

"To sail the Seven Seas" has meant different things to different cultures throughout history.

The Grand Canyon is a rich, geologic landscape formed over millions of years by a combination of natural forces.

Under certain conditions, ice crystals act as prisms that create patches of light accompanying the sun.

This powerful ocean current helps warm Western Europe, and it was instrumental in the colonization of the Americas.

Twisters frequently form in a wide swath of the Midwest called Tornado Alley.

Mount Kilimanjaro rises from the plains of Tanzania.

The basic definition of democracy: rule by the people. But democracies can be defined as parliamentary, Jacksonian, liberal, social and other types.