June 7: the history they never taught you.

2 storiesfrom the archive happened on this date, each drawn from published sources before it was written.

A Pen Stroke Split the World and Made Brazil

A Spanish bishop who never left Europe carved up the entire planet with a pen stroke, and in the process created Brazil.

How a Mapmaker Quietly Expanded Brazil's Border

A single misplaced line on a map nearly started a war between two empires, and the man who drew it had never left his study.

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