Maryland and Delaware and British Colonial Legacy

Smithsonian piece on some of the convoluted and very obscure colonial history of the (not so) United States of America.


South Africa and Zimbabwe have similar issues. See Zimbabwean Parliament Building is Owned by the Anglican Church and Nikola Tesla and The End of The World.


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