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Isogloss maps are irresistible, even if they are about cucumbers
It disappeared from central London in 1869, after an archeological magazine praised its historical value
The strange birth of America’s two ‘radio nations’
Why does the Purple Line in this alternate-universe railway map terminate in Quincy, Illinois?
Sure, the Allies are advancing… but a snail could do it quicker!
A bizarre ‘planisphere palindrome’ version of the Earth
It’s a good season for subterfuge. While the rest of the world is watching Syria – or, more precisely, the omnishambles following Obama’s “red line” in the Syrian sand – […]
A crowd-sourced map suggesting the ‘ideal’ borders for a country that has had so many different ones.
It was this map of Greenland that triggered this post. I say map, but I mean hole in a drainpipe. This picture was sent in by Ruland Kolen, who was […]
The Pope is not just the supremo of the Catholic Church, he is also the head of state of the Vatican
One of cartography’s most persistent myths: mapmakers of yore, frustrated by the world beyond their ken, marked the blank spaces on their maps with the legend Here be monsters. It’s […]
Thanks to three solar panels and a large lithium ion battery pack, the stations can capture and store enough power to charge six phones at once and have plenty to spare.
Draw two dots above a straight line, place them in a circle, and even children a few years old will spot the semblance with a human countenance. Whether it’s the features […]
The Uruguayan capital does not have a metro system – but it does have a metro map
God know we would have satellites one day, so He left us a message
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Country motto: Don’t do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Aren’t we all honorary citizens?
If phantom islands can be discovered as recently as 2012, maybe there are still more of them out there.
To celebrate her Jubilee year, the Queen had a large chunk of Antarctica named after her; possibly upsetting the Argentinians and Chileans.
In 1937, Nicaragua and Honduras almost went to war… over a stamp.
If you thought that random samples of your DNA collected in public spaces could never be used as part of a futuristic genetic surveillance program, think again. In what has […]
Could the unforgiving Taklamakan Desert once have been the location of the Garden of Earthly Delights?
“[T]he Gothic era,” Bruno Klein writes in the introduction to Gothic: Visual Art of the Middle Ages, 1140-1500, “was a time of seeing, in which much was discussed in words, […]
These specially-made relief maps showed blind children were sensitive to the geo-distributive aspect of maps
Among the baker’s dozen of legends obscuring the true origin of the croissant, the one repeated most often transports us back to Austria in 1683. Up before dawn, Vienna’s bakers […]
The massive southern continent was a supposed to be a counterweight for the lands of the northern hemisphere