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One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was a rather powerless virgin.
The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.
This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.
James Gillray’s ‘plumb-pudding’ caricature is “probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.”
Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.
At least 222 typefaces are named after places in the U.S. — and there’s still room for more.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
In Germany and France, having an Anglo-Saxon first name is a good predictor of extreme voting behavior.
Six denominations share the Holy Sepulcher, but not all between them is peace and love.
First drawn in 1935, Hu Line illustrates persistent demographic split – how Beijing deals with it will determine the country’s future.
Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.
Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a “super state.”
UAE is the world’s most expensive country to start a business, but it’s free in Rwanda.
Esoteric evidence points to a ritual performed by Queen Elizabeth’s court magician John Dee.
Despite overall increase over the past 20 years, share of women in science and engineering falls in some European countries
Topologists can’t tell donuts from coffee mugs, but their maps are revelatory nonetheless.
A “seafood mafia” is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China’s appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.
1895 map of New York City shows ‘concrete socialism’ in red, ‘private enterprises’ in white.
Underperforming, the U.S. comes in only 157th out of 196 in global triangularity ranking.
Legendary cartoonist John Groth’s pictorial map captures LA’s film factories in their Golden Age.
Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.
More than a century after the end of hostilities in 1918, some battlefields of WWI are still deadly enough to kill you.
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
Map shows Europe’s imminent Great Leap Forward in battery cell production
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
Interactive globe shows where your hometown was at various stages of Earth’s deep geological past.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
In this 1915 map, Lady Liberty shines her light in the West on women in the East, still in electoral darkness
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.