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423 – Flow-Charting the Ring TrilogyDesigned by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher and included in most editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the map of Middle-Earth is one of the best-known examples of fantasy cartography. The iconic map shows the fictional continent in which the action of the three books takes pla... |
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422 – Cartozoological SpecimensCartozoology, the discipline dedicated to the discovery and study of animals outlined paradigmatically by street layouts as they appear on maps, took almost three decades to mature from idea to reality. It was conceived in 1974 on a plane between Oslo and Reykjavik; but the Norwegian Cartozoologi... |
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421- Faith, Science and the FloodFaith and reason, usually jostling for primacy over one another, unite on this map to describe [t]he Earth-sphere after the Deluge in its broken state, shown with Mountains and valleys, great Sea-Bosom and Islands and Shallows of the same. The map was produced for Willem and Jan G... |
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420 – The Afro-Latinosaurus RexIs there a name for the obscure, but strangely rewarding sport of spotting animal shapes in geographic features? Examples of the as yet anonymous pastime discussed previously on this blog are the Animals on the Underground (#119) and the Ontario Elephant (#340). Here is one that I would like to ... |
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419 – France, Reconstructed from Apparently Inadequate DataHow little information do you need to be able to draw a map? This zen-like question provided the basis for a short article in the May 21st, 1971 issue of Nature, intriguingly entitled Construction of Maps from “Odd Bits of Information”. The article, according to its author David... |
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418 – The Turkish-Islamic EmpireLike Russia or the UK, Turkey is the successor state to a once dominant world power. And much as in those other countries, nostalgic memories of Empire (the Ottoman one, in Turkey’s case) compare unfavourably with today’s status as merely a ‘normal’ country. All former su... |
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