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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 »
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Amazonas - Sobe para 13 número de mortos em naufrágio
ultimas noticias wrote 4 months ago: Dois corpos de crianças foram resgatados hoje pelo Corpo de Bombeiros, mortas no naufrágio ocorrid … more »
209 - Beyond the Helvetian Desert: Ancient, Mysterious Germany
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strangemaps wrote 7 months ago: The proximity to, the ‘otherness’ of and the seemingly eternal conflict with the barbarian tr … more »
192 - Britain Seen From the North
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strangemaps wrote 9 months ago: British-born sculptor Tony Cragg (°1949, Liverpool) left his native land in 1977 to work on the Co … more »
191 - Un-Austria
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strangemaps wrote 9 months ago: “This work uses real statistics on Austria to create an image of Austria,” Babak Fakham … more »
190 - World-Wide Web Map, From .ad to .za
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strangemaps wrote 9 months ago: The world can be sliced and diced in many ways, and one of them is by dividing it into the 245 ccTL … more »
189 - Painting Peru
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strangemaps wrote 9 months ago: Christa Dichgans (°1940 in Berlin) is a German painter who has shown a proclivity towards cartogra … more »
188 - Panama Kiss
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strangemaps wrote 9 months ago: As early as 1534, king Charles V of Spain suggested a canal in Panama across the Central American i … more »
185 - The Patients Per Doctor Map of the World
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strangemaps wrote 9 months ago: “This poster (published in September 2007) hangs on the wall of waiting rooms at the doctor. … more »
163 - Europe Wipes Britain off the Map!
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strangemaps wrote 11 months ago: The Daily Mail is one of the UK’s more euroskeptic newspapers, so it must have been with much del … more »
162 - The United States of Florida
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strangemaps wrote 11 months ago: “It takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter,” the New York Times wrote on Feb … more »
161 - Map of the San Francisco Quake and Fire (1906)
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strangemaps wrote 11 months ago: On the night of April 17th in 1906, the world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso wowed San Franciscans at t … more »
159 - Squaring the Hexagon: France's Rectangular Départements
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strangemaps wrote 11 months ago: Squaring the circle is a proverbial way of describing something impossible. Jacques-Guillaume Thour … more »
158 - Total Solar Eclipse Map (2001-2025)
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strangemaps wrote 11 months ago: If you want to witness a total solar eclipse and you live in Europe, you’re out of luck until at … more »
151- Exclaves of West Berlin (4): Steinstücken and Wüste Mark
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: Steinstücken is the southernmost part of the Berlin Ortsteil (borough) of Wannsee, almost adjacent … more »
149 - Germany-on-the-Volga (1924-1941)
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: In a place far from the geographic heart of German culture, on the lower reaches of the Volga Riv … more »
147 - The Stillborn State of Sequoyah
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The US state of Oklahoma almost entered the Union as two states – Oklahoma and Sequoyah. The latt … more »
146 - Comparing Wikipedia to China, Macedonia and Barbados
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: Frank San Miguel (“software geek, boat builder, musician and a veteran of a number of internet st … more »
145 - The Madonna Map Syndrome
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: The cyclist pauses amid fields of produce that stretch toward the horizon, punctuated only by farms … more »
144 - Single Guys Live in LA, Single Girls in NYC
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strangemaps wrote 1 year ago: This map out of the National Geographic magazine was sent to me by Xyzzy, a name that gives nothing … more »
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