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If you crave adventure, you couldn't wish for a better alien planet on which to crash-land
As the Soviets move to rein in Yugoslavia, the US and UN strike back...
The calls of this bird vary regionally, as do the names people give them
The famous and not-so-famous dead of Pere Lachaise
A weird marriage of urban planning and personality cult
The fledgling state managed to elect a Miss Absaroka 1939 before disappearing into the dustbin of history
The Zeno Brothers invented a bunch of islands north of Scotland that turned out to have remarkable staying power on maps
California's varied landscape has stood in for half the world in Hollywood movies. Here is Paramount Studios' 1927 map of international filming locations, all set in California.
Independent from Denmark for a week every year, the kingdom of Elleore has acquired a fair number of quirks since its founding in 1944.
This satirical exercise in dissuasive cartography painted Ireland as the ‘Emerald Desert’
The German polymath Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) also was a cartographer, and one with a penchant for strange maps. He produced an anthropomorphic map of Europe as a queen (#141) for […]
Some places exert a morbid attraction on the terminally disenchanted - like light pole 69 on the Golden Gate Bridge
This blog has been up since September 2006. In that half year, I’ve posted 90 maps, gotten about 1.000 comments – most of them interesting and/or favourable – and just […]
Suomi-Neito is a distant, but weirdly parallel echo of ‘Paula’, the personification of Brazil’s Sao Paulo state (discussed in #471). Female like most other anthropomorphic representations of geographic entities (1), […]
The exclave exists only because the Austrians wanted to spite the Swiss
How a farmer's breakfast morphed into the symbol of a language border
Had Franz Ferdinand not been assassinated in Sarajevo, he might have pushed through this plan, and the empire might have survived
The map was made by James Mazzeo, a long-time associate of Neil Young
n n At the beginning of this new year, hardly any map could be as appropriate as this one of Calendria, a place made out of time. This wondrous world […]
The southern terminus of the Iron Curtain could have been the starting point of World War III
Your antipodes most likely have fins rather than feet
Is the Land of Oz located on a retrograde planet?
n n “I was watching TV and noticed an informercial for cure-all vitamin supplement with a unique map background,” writes John Deal, who immediately grabbed a camera and took a […]
Was this map supposed to scare secessionist Virginia back into the Union?