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209 - Beyond the Helvetian Desert: Ancient, Mysterious Germany
The proximity to, the ‘otherness’ of and the seemingly eternal conflict with the barbarian tribes across the Rhine stoked Imperial Rome’s interest in all matters German. To get a sense of the… more →
Strange Maps
UT Arlington’s collection of old ass maps featured at Amon Carter Museum
vimsite wrote 3 months ago: By Pegasus News wire An exhibit of maps of the American West titled, “Revisualizing Westward Expan … more →
209 - Beyond the Helvetian Desert: Ancient, Mysterious Germany
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strangemaps wrote 11 months ago: The proximity to, the ‘otherness’ of and the seemingly eternal conflict with the barbarian tr … more →
150 - Pinsonia, An Imaginary Province of Brazil
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: Cândido Mendes de Almeida (1818-1881) was a Brazilian journalist, politician and author who in 1 … more →
140 - The Great Australian Inland Sea
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The Americas have the Mississippi and the Amazon, Africa has the Nile and Asia has the Ganges and t … more →
139 - The Anaconda Plan
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: “We propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the Ocean, with a cordon of posts at prop … more →
136 - New Iceland - A Forgotten Nordic Colony In Canada
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: When it comes to the discovery and colonization of America, Iceland can claim a longer pedigree tha … more →
130 - A Ten-State Australia
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901. Its constitution provides for the creation of new … more →
126 - Hannover On Her Mind - and On Her Back
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: “I wanted something unique, something nobody else had. But every idea I had – it had already be … more →
120 - Hip to Be Square: the Land Ordinance of 1785
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The United States expanded westward in ever more rectangular fashion, leading to states out west th … more →
111 - The Comancheria, Lost Homeland of a Warrior Tribe
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: Under the presidency of Sam Houston (1836-’38, 1841-’44) the then independent Republic of Texas … more →
110 - Cooch Behar: The Mother of All Enclave Complexes
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: A map that does justice to the strangeness of the Cooch Behar enclave complex risks either to be … more →
106 - The 'Bloodless Aroostook War' and Maine's Northern Border
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: “From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due … more →
64 - Sannikov Land, an Arctic Phantom Island
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: In 1811, the Russian merchant and explorer Yakov Sannikov reported seeing a ‘bluish fog’ to the … more →
53 - Ever been gerrymandered?
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The painter Gilbert Stuart was inspired by the awkward shape of an electoral district on a map he sa … more →
27 - The Republic of Indian Stream (1832-1835)
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strangemaps wrote 2 years ago: The territorial history of the US seems pretty straightforward: 13 British colonies on the eastern s … more →
11 - "Edwardistan"
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strangemaps wrote 2 years ago: The British tried their hand at subduing Afghanistan in the 19th Century, when the Empire was at the … more →
4 - Imperial Texas
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strangemaps wrote 2 years ago: Texas is a special state within the US - not only the biggest of the contiguous 48 states, but also … more →
1 - lunatic asylum districts in Pennsylvania
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strangemaps wrote 2 years ago: I like maps. I like weird maps, the kind you won’t find in a regular atlas. Maps of countries … more →
90 - The Limburg Split of 1839
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The map-on-a-stamp in this post is again taken from the wonderful site called Dan’s Topical S … more →
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