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The votes are in and the winner for school theme is . . . “The World Around Us, Including Geography.” The title may be a bit awkward rolling off the tongue, but Marlborough Elementary S… ...
Of Hyperbole And Geography: A Map Of The World's 'Other' Capitals An interactive map on Atlas Obscura explores alternate capital cities — not of countries, but products, events and states of mind.
Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...
Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...
To explore this further, I recently tried mapping a full year of data from my open source GDELT Project to visualize the locations most closely associated with each word. From April 6, 2017 to May ...
Humans have made maps for untold thousands of years. They’re among the oldest modes of communication, predating written language. But, as cartographer Norman Thrower writes in Maps and Civilization: ...
The Wolfsonian–FIU charts global ambition in “ Plotting Power: Maps and the Modern Age, ” on view through April 16, 2023. Drawing from the Wolfsonian’s renowned collection of art and design, Plotting ...
Ocean drainage basin map of Asia Robert Szucs / Grasshopper Geography. The new maps show how interconnected the world’s waterways are—how far-flung rivers from different continents eventually ...
California beckons with many charms—including some borrowed from other places —in this detail from the map at the top of this post. Map courtesy Ethel M. Fair Collection (275), Geography and ...
A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...