Once upon a time – Dec. 26, 1979, to be specific – 14-year-old Robert Ben Madison declared his bedroom in his house on Prospect Avenue to be a sovereign nation, the Kingdom of Talossa. He named ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- If you grew up in Milwaukee, chances are you've heard of 'The Kingdom of Talossa.' There's a number of self-proclaimed micronations in the United States, but one of the first ...

As a nine-year-old growing up at 924 Putnam Street in Newport, Kentucky, Tony Skaggs could look over the Ohio River to downtown Cincinnati’s skyline. He may have daydreamed a bit about what was going ...

You may have thought that Vatican City and Monaco are the smallest countries in the world. And for the most part, you would be right. But, now it’s time to think smaller, and in that we mean tiny.

A series of controversies have caused much outrage over “cancel culture”. But what does the phrase actually mean, and is it useful at all? By Sarah Manavis It’s a story that goes like this: there is a ...

For most of the last 5,000 years, Iraq was a key centre of scientific knowledge. Mathematics, developed initially for keeping accounts, gradually spread into far more ambitious areas such as ...

It’s the UN’s World Population Day, which aims to raise awareness of global population issues - you can check out what they’re up to this year here, external. The not-so-hidden message seems to be - ...

I'm a big fan of Atlas Obscura, a website that calls itself "the definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places." And it does a good job. Yesterday, it took a look at Milwaukee and its 12 ...

This playful, tongue-in-cheek guide to inventing and ruling one’s own country also weaves in information about nation-building and governance. Readers can select a location for their country (the ...

Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes… it’s all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own? Some ...