Lions are not native to the Low Countries, but here is one particular specimen that is nevertheless very local. The Leo Belgicus is a lion transposed on a ...
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11 Jun 2007 ... I like maps. I like weird maps, the kind you won't find in a regular atlas. Maps of countries that never existed – or never will exist. ...
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4 Aug 2008 ... When on a hot summer's day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, ...
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Russell Stutler is an American artist living in Tokyo; his website showcases, among other examples of his graphic art, this ink and pen floorplan of 221B ...
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There's some corner of an English field that is forever Australia. This almost century-old chalk map of Oz, carved into a Wiltshire hillside, ...
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People of a very religious disposition have been known to see the face of Jesus in a slice of burnt toast, or the Virgin Mary's silhouet in a tree. ...
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Any and every American city is built up out of Avenues and Streets, most of them numbered. A much nicer way to describe a city is by mapping its ...
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“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 ...
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1.jpg. “I wanted something unique, something nobody else had. But every idea I had – it had already been done,” says Britta Oelschlaeger. ...
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map002.gif. English is the dominant language in the British Isles, also in their Celtic fringe – Ireland, Scotland, Wales. In Scotland but mainly in Ireland ...
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Despite recent outbreaks off the Horn of Africa, piracy still conjures up other images than freebooting Somali fishermen.Your standard-issue pirate from ...
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carte-web-en1.jpg. The series of tubes famously dubbed the 'internets' by president G.W. Bush* constitute a world wide web of interconnectedness. ...
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A pene-enclave is almost an enclave in the same way that a peninsula* almost is an island. But only on a strictly lexical level. ...
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Here's a map reminiscent of the Bruceville map – another piece of musical cartography treated earlier on this blog (entry #134). This one charts the haunts ...
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3 Nov 2009 ... Asphalt Maine. Looking down upon the patched-up surface of an unnamed street, J. David Lovejoy couldn't help noticing a remarkable example ...
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eumapb1.jpg. Scientists predict the Earth will end 5 billion years from now, when the Sun becomes a red giant. Certain religious people are more alarmist, ...
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tm4-map-annotated.jpg. “This map is basically what would happen if you got a bunch of Japanese guys in a room, got them drunk, and then asked them to draw ...
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m0108021.jpg. “West Floriday, that lovely nation,. Free from king and tyranny,. Thru' the world shall be respected,. For her true love of Liberty!” ...
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tendre_gr.jpg One of the earliest, and most influential examples of sentimental cartography is the Carte de Tendre, an example of the highly refined ...
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The Vinland Map was discovered in 1957, bound up with a manuscript of undisputed antiquity, the Historia Tartorum. The map supposedly is a 15th century copy ...
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02florida-map600.jpg. “It takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter,” the New York Times wrote on February 2 of this year. ...
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In geopolitical theory, the term 'Heartland' refers to the area between the Volga and Yangtze rivers, and between the Himalaya and the Arctic regions. ...
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02florida-map600.jpg. “It takes a big state to absorb the entire North every winter,” the New York Times wrote on February 2 of this year. ...
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europeasaqueen.jpg. Europe and Queen were two pretty awful soft metal bands from the Eighties, but fortunately, neither has anything to do with this ...
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irkutsk.jpg. How delicious is this: obviously a sister-map to the one in posting #103 ('Europe From Moscow'), but this time applying an unusual perspective ...
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Whether out of financial prudence or budgetary necessity, the annual summer vacation has been a “staycation” for millions of families during this recession ...
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t03347_91.jpg. British-born sculptor Tony Cragg (°1949, Liverpool) left his native land in 1977 to work on the Continent. He now resides in Wuppertal, ...
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map1.jpg. Off the top of your head, how many songs do you know that mention US states, either in their title or in the lyrics? Here's how far I got: ...
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karte-freistaat-flaschenhals.jpg. In the 20th century, Allied forces occupied Germany not just once, but twice. The better-known (and longer-lasting) ...
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taiwan.jpg. “On a recent trip to Taiwan, I purchased this bottle opener at the Taipei 101 building (technically still the tallest building in the world ...
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The Bir Tawil Triangle is a desert of sand and rocks on the border between Egypt and the Sudan. It is also officially the most undesired territory in the ...
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aroostook-war-map1.jpg. “From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the St ...
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sarko1.png. The frequently fascinating and highly recommended Catholicgauze (“a blog on geography, geographic thought, and cool geography links”) presents ...
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The Florentine mathematician, astronomer and cosmographer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397-1482) is probably best remembered for his proposal in 1474 to the ...
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276540-poster594x420mm_eng.jpg. “This poster (published in September 2007) hangs on the wall of waiting rooms at the doctor. This way we let Dutch people ...
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zweitesvaterland_karte1.jpg. In 1900, the famous French writer of adventure stories Jules Verne published 'Seconde Patrie' ('Second Fatherland') in two ...
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birobidzhanmap. Since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 AD and their subsequent banishment from Palestine, the Jews had been without ...
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“Geographical manuals in US schools show an amputated Brazil, without the Amazon and the Pantanal. This is how students are taught that these are ...
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Beyond the pale is an English expression for anything beyond the limits of the law or of accepted morality. The aforementioned 'pale', far from being a ...
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Travellers, discoverers and cartographers have named the world around us so that we might find our way in it. The purpose of a place name, therefore, ...
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sarko1.png. The frequently fascinating and highly recommended Catholicgauze (“a blog on geography, geographic thought, and cool geography links”) presents ...
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cd_m_8903.jpg. Christa Dichgans (°1940 in Berlin) is a German painter who has shown a proclivity towards cartography in her work. ...
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population1024×512.png. This map is part of a series of cartograms in which the actual geography is distorted in order to demonstrate information about the ...
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den_norske_drape_w597_h8001.jpg. This remarkable painting was made by the Norwegian artist Rolf Groven as a poster proposal for Norway's pavilion at the ...
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Freddy Heineken (1923-2002), the Dutch tycoon who made his beer into a global brand, also was a dedicated Europhile. Towards the end of his life, ...
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Leo Belgicus by Petrus Kaerius (1617), copied from the original design by Michael Aitzinger. Image taken here from the website of the Sanderus map shop in ...
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“The man of breeding never appears to abandon himself completely to his pleasures; even his manner of enjoyment is detached. It is the rustic boors who take ...
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Is there a name for the obscure, but strangely alluring hobby of spotting animal shapes in geographic features*? Previously discussed examples on this blog ...
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A – “Now you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's Old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of ...
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volgagermanassr.jpg. In a place far from the geographic heart of German culture, on the lower reaches of the Volga River in the southern part of European ...
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england2410_468x8161.jpg. In Great Britain as in the US, two cultural sub- nations identify themselves (and the other) as North and South. ...
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1 Feb 2009 ... “When an English speaker doesn't understand a word of what someone says, he or she states that it's 'Greek to me'. ...
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minardmap.jpg. “The best statistical graphic ever drawn“, is how statistician Edward Tufte described this chart in his authoritative work 'The Visual ...
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eumapb1.jpg. Scientists predict the Earth will end 5 billion years from now, when the Sun becomes a red giant. Certain religious people are more alarmist, ...
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Genetically speaking, Finns and Italians are the most atypical Europeans. There is a large degree of overlap between other European ethnicities, ...
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Maps on old postcards look really cool, I think (see previous post). So I looked for another one, and found this postcard, dating from 1929. ...
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netherlands750jpg.jpg. The map-on-a-stamp in this post is again taken from the wonderful site called Dan's Topical Stamps. ...
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brucejersey.jpg. James Joyce once boasted that, should Dublin ever disappear off the face of the earth, the city could be reconstructed from the references ...
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I learned a new word today, but the condition it describes has been with me for quite some time: cartocacoethes – the compulsion to see maps everywhere. ...
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page2_large.gif. The United States expanded westward in ever more rectangular fashion, leading to states out west that are so square, they're only ...
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A rug, to quote The Big Lebowski, can really tie a room together. The Dude (or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing) opted for a pretty ...
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23 Sep 2008 ... “Fantasy is like fruit and dessert, and reality is like meat and potatoes and green beans,” says Renaldo Kuhler. The 76-year-old artist is ...
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21 Sep 2009 ... There are over 13000 McDonald's restaurants in the US, or about 1 for every 23000 Americans. But even market penetration this advanced ...
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Asphalt Maine. Looking down upon the patched-up surface of an unnamed street, J. David Lovejoy couldn't help noticing a remarkable example of accidental ...
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1.jpg. The Turks have Piri Reis, whose 1513 map shows parts of America and Antarctica with astonishing and, in the case of Antarctica, frankly inexplicable ...
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In the Democratic primaries, Paul Tsongas leads the field of candidates. Bill Clinton (dubbed 'Pander Bear' by Tsongas) still has to earn the moniker 'The ...
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bgiusca_jirecek_line.jpg. In 1911, Czech historian Konstantin Jireček drew a line across a map of the Balkan peninsula. The line, running east-west from the ...
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wikipedia-contributor-math.png. Frank San Miguel (“software geek, boat builder, musician and a veteran of a number of internet startups”, including what ...
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18 Nov 2007 ... tolkiens_australia.jpg. “The koality of muh-cy is not strined”: I forget who once pondered the impossibility of believing Shakespeare spoken ...
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20 Jul 2007 ... truelove.jpg. This early 20th century postcard, Shewing the Course of the Truelove River, charts that stream from its two headlands in the ...
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1 Nov 2007 ... usamap.gif. Alien encounters, abductions and sightings are very much out of the picture since they were milked for televisual success by the ...
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12 Apr 2009 ... “Thanks to Unicode and OpenType, modern fonts are overcoming the limitations of traditional European typography. The size of the countries ...
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17 Nov 2008 ... If you're American, geographically inclined and a bit of a stickler, this cartographic incongruity is a bit of an annoyance. ...
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monaco20541.jpg. At present, Monaco is the world's second-smallest state ( Wikipedia mentions both 1,64 and 1,95 km², although another source mentions 1,49 ...
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30 Nov 2007 ... germania031.jpg. The proximity to, the 'otherness' of and the seemingly eternal conflict with the barbarian tribes across the Rhine stoked ...
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3 Dec 2007 ... ecardtransitmaps.jpg. Be glad they don't have coffee-tables in the Tube, métro, subway and U-Bahn, otherwise you wouldn't have any excuse ...
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3 Nov 2008 ... Rarely is the question asked: What if Italy had won the Second World War? The more frequently asked question is: What if Germany had won the ...
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23 Dec 2007 ... imagen1-full.jpg. All was not well in Europe in 1870, the year the Franco- Prussian war would lead to a united German Empire and a humiliated ...
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map_stellaland.jpg. Nowadays, the southern tip of Africa is dominated by a single state, the Republic of South Africa (punctuated by Lesotho, ...
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6 Jul 2007 ... mail.jpg. This map out of the National Geographic magazine was sent to me by Xyzzy, a name that gives nothing away as to gender affiliation ...
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27 Apr 2009 ... What a great way this map is to present global levels of wine consumption (red wine, 2006). A shame there's no legend to provide context (by ...
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