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331 - East and West: Never the Twain Shall Meet?. If you’re American, geographically inclined and a bit of a stickler, this cartographic incongruity is a bit of an annoyance. From the US, the shortest route to what’s conventionally called ‘the East’ is in fact via the west. Going in that direction, ... |
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330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ PresidentsBoth these maps show the same segment of the southern United States, and demonstrate a similar pattern. Yet each describes a wholly other era and a completely different process. The bottom map dates from 1860 (i.e. the eve of the Civil War), and indicates where cotton was produ... |
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329 - Chaffinch Map of ScotlandChaffinch Map of Scotland is a poem written in 1965 by Edwin Morgan (b. 1920), Poet Laureate of Glasgow (1999) and (since 2004) Scottish National Poet (1). The work looks deceptively simple, while in fact it is a cleverly multilayered combination of poetry, cartography, ornitholog... |
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328 - Fuzzy Britain, and Truth in Maps“(…) for the last two years, I’ve been taking pictures of Britain on world maps,” writes Ben Terrett, graphic desi... |
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327 - City Maps As A Rorschach TestThis map, showing the surface and population of selected world cities, is outdated by over two decades. It was published in the Dallas Morning News on 9 June 1983, since when the population of Dallas itself, for example, has grown from just over 900,000 to well beyond 1.2 million inhabitants (20... |
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326 - Where Is Obamaland?According to Barack Obama, “there are no blue states, no red states, only the United States of America”. That is the rhetoric one should expect from a president-elect, intent on overcoming the inevitable polarisation of an election campaign. Given the oppositional natur... |
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