The only fictional map to feature prominently in the Three Stooges body of work
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Europe shocked as leaked map reveals secret plan for Belgian domination
Almost ten years after its first publication, are the predictions in this book any closer to coming true?
Where we are determines who we are - and what we drink
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984’, the world is ruled by three superstates. Unfortunately, there’s not much ‘super’ to these states except their size.
Chicago would have been in the state of Assenisipia, north of the state of Illinoia
This map beautifully captures the changeable course of the Big River
Praise the Lord and pass the dictionary!
A curious map from Alfred Russel Wallace, the father of biogeography
A few days before NECC I was invited by a publicist to interview Julie Young, the Executive Director of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and also speak with the folks from […]
To spare the feelings of the good people of his hometown, Sinclair Lewis invented a fictional state as the setting for his novels
Yes, but are they christianised Turks, or turkified Bulgars?
Amikejo was located in Neutral Moresnet, a geopolitical anomaly that managed to survive for a whole century after the Congress of Vienna.
A treasure map of the voyage to sobriety
“If you have to ask for slaw on a hot dog, it’s not a true West Virginia hot dog”
This crazy scheme would have restored the prehistoric land bridge between the UK and the Continent
Despite centuries of Anglo-French tension, Stratford’s favourite son is as popular in Paris as he is in London
For such a small country, Liechtenstein sure has a lot of exclaves (or was that enclaves?)
When the invasion comes, head for the mountains. Sorry, flatlanders!
The original map of Treasure Island was lost - if it still exists, it must surely be worth a fortune now...
Did this far-out story of lizards below LA father the conspiracy theory of world-ruling reptilians?
If the principle of frontage would be universally applied, so could the U.S., Nigeria, Bangladesh - and even Greenland
Plato's fabled continent, as depicted by Kircher in the 17th century, looks a bit familiar...
A 1940 map of a fictional continent slightly resembling South America, symbolising different aspects of the new and exciting world of plastics
According to Mercator, the North Pole was marked by a giant black magnetic rock
On June 3, almost 9 months after the first post on September 10 last year, the hit counter on strangemaps went up to 1 million. Today, a bit over a […]