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An amazing feat of engineering, but at the cost of much blood and treasure
The Jews have another Israel. It’s in Siberia – and it was their first official home.
n There’s some corner of an English field that is forever Australia. n This almost century-old chalk map of Oz, carved into a Wiltshire hillside, seems to validate the above […]
Leopold Kohr, who championed the principle ‘small is beautiful’, also applied it to geopolitics
Intangible and invisible, but omnipresent: that combination of qualities used to describe only God (or the sense of dread left by His absence). Now it also applies to cyberspace. Any […]
It might have snuffed out Secession with minimal loss of life; but Lincoln chose both the blockade and an invasion
President Theodore Roosevelt vetoed the idea.
Eilert Sundt must have had a busy, happy week. As the president of the Norwegian Cartozoological Society, Mr Sundt probably is the world’s most prominent ambassador of the obscure discipline […]
“West Floriday, that lovely nation, Free from king and tyranny, Thru’ the world shall be respected, For her true love of Liberty!” So goes a marching song that never got […]
Long dead and gone, the Rochester Subway lives on in the imagination – and on this map
Up to 8,000 people each year go hunting for a legendary gold mine, guided by cryptic maps like these.
In the end, the Dutch went for the less ambitious drainage scheme of Cornelis Lely
Because of eurocentrism. But probably not for much longer.
Is this map merely absurd or does it make a political point?
Baseball is the quintessential North American sport, as demonstrated by this map
The ‘bloodless’ Aroostook War is variously said to have cost the life of a cow, a pig, or a single U.S. private.
Prester John as virtual as he was virtuous, the legend literally too good to be true.
Given all the time and attention the Yemeni military has spent on the Arhab tribe recently, which we have followed here at Waq al-waq by also spending a great deal […]
Apart from being a past sponsor of international terrorism and the West’s new best friend in North Africa, Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi is also a crackpot dictator with the bizarrest […]
The Maine Solar System Model recreates the relative distances between the sun and planets along a stretch of U.S. Highway 1
Remarkably, Cuba leads the world (or at least those countries shown on this map) in the patients per doctor ratio.
Did we miss a utopia or avoid a disaster?
This isn’t a political, but a commercial world map: it specifies the six distinct global ‘DVD regions’ of the world. DVD is short for ‘digital video disc’, the successor to […]
n “(…) for the last two years, I’ve been taking pictures of Britain on world maps,” writes Ben Terrett, graphic designer and blogger at Noisy Decent Graphics. Well, not too bad, if that’s […]
The rough beauty of the American West seems as far as you can get from the polished corridors of power in Washington DC.
Sprinkled throughout the city – but often poorly indicated – are dozens of Privately Owned Public Open Spaces
They could have made it more complex, but they would have had to try very hard
In its most recent issue, The New Yorker magazine revisits one of its most famous covers ever. Saul Steinberg’s cartoon on the front page of the 29 March 1976 issue […]