Happy Holidays from The Geo Factor! Peace on earth, goodwill to geographers all people.

Ever wonder about places in the U.S. with holiday names? The mystery is over, thanks to the Internet Accuracy Project, an advertisement-free effort founded “early in 2005 to help make research, both online and off, a more satisfying, error-free experience for all researchers.” Mibazaar put it all on a map.

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, something else, some of them, all of them, or nothing - remember that location matters for everything. Peace on earth requires people to understand the importance of place, and the cultural, economic, and political differences resulting from distance as well as history.