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Ten Mesmerizing Geophysical Maps That Double as Works of Art

https://eos.org/features/ten-mesmerizin ... rks-of-art

I can't put the maps up here, but my grandfather died recently and prior to the funeral we were going through his old stuff. He was drafted and served in the German post-war occupation force in the Army in the 1950s. While there he did some travel to England and France, and he had the tour maps in the books for London and Paris good down to the street level. I looked for a date on them, one wasn't listed, but I have to imagine they were early-to-mid-1950s publish date. The London maps were scaled in inches to miles. They're such I was thinking of asking my grandmother for them and maybe arrange them up in a frame to hang up.

The Roman Empire as a TV Show:

Was just weeding some very old books from the library that haven't been checked out since the 80s and found this wonderful map of Wolfe's Quebec campaign ... scanned it large, so:

https://imgur.com/V4Wi4S6

The No response for North Wales should of course be:

"Chips a Cwri saws"

Lacrobat wrote:

Spoiler: show

10 respondents for NI. Gravy being the favourite for Antrim isalmost certainly due to a couple of people loving the gravy chips from the Sphinx.
I know I do.

Nolanator wrote:

Lacrobat wrote:

Spoiler: show

10 respondents for NI. Gravy being the favourite for Antrim isalmost certainly due to a couple of people loving the gravy chips from the Sphinx.
I know I do.

Are you mad? The Sphinx house sauce is nectar of the gods. And their Currys amazing too. You've been picking the fat one from Little Mix.

I started working my way down the list, but liked the first one I chose so much that I never progressed past it.
Too late now.

Good excuse to go back for a visit, though.

(Really) Old-School Map of Wales:

I lived above, and went to school in Nantlle Valley - where the eagle is.

It's the valley on the far left, with a lake here:

Interactive maps of the locations mentioned in The Odyssey

http://esripm.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapT ... acf3dd1b3e

Pat the Ex Mat wrote:The No response for North Wales should of course be:

"Chips a Cwri saws"

Saws Cwri, I suspect.

The Welsh for chips is ‘Sglodion’ but in nearly 10 years I have yet to hear anyone say it. ‘Fish & Chips’ is so much easier to say than ‘Pysgod a Sglodion’. People invariably give phone numbers in English for the same reason.

Nieghorn wrote:Interactive maps of the locations mentioned in The Odyssey

http://esripm.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapT ... acf3dd1b3e

Good find.

And connected, a series of approaches to mapping Leopold Blooms journey through Ulysses: http://gorse.ie/ulysses-mapped/

Doc Rob wrote:

Pat the Ex Mat wrote:The No response for North Wales should of course be:

"Chips a Cwri saws"

Saws Cwri, I suspect.

The Welsh for chips is ‘Sglodion’ but in nearly 10 years I have yet to hear anyone say it. ‘Fish & Chips’ is so much easier to say than ‘Pysgod a Sglodion’. People invariably give phone numbers in English for the same reason.

Nah, mine is correct - I spent more than 10 years ordering it in Caernarfon that way.

Nobody uses Sglodion.

It's also always Siop Chip.

https://easyzoom.com/imageaccess/ec482e ... 156bb6836f

Very good trade map route. If someone manages to embedd it, please do.

Taranaki Snapper wrote:

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Makes you wonder what the world would be like if the roman empire never collapsed. Very organized people. And sex perverts. The best of both worlds.

True Blue wrote:

Taranaki Snapper wrote:

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/10/roman ... domus.html

Makes you wonder what the world would be like if the roman empire never collapsed. Very organized people. And sex perverts. The best of both worlds.

If only Christianity hadn't taken ahold and those barbarians from the steppes hadn't decided they needed to use their superior tactics of war against a bunch of I'll disciplined mercenaries posing under a Roman split oligarchy. Rome made a habit of building roads absolutely straight, as a show of superiority, and also because it's technically the fastest way to get anywhere is in a straight line.

I am sure the church would be rife with peados

Oh wait

True Blue wrote:

Taranaki Snapper wrote:

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/10/roman ... domus.html

Makes you wonder what the world would be like if the roman empire never collapsed. Very organized people. And sex perverts. The best of both worlds.

It would have been white people only left on the planet , and only Christianity. Infrastructure would have been amazing, and all telly would have very hot women presenters.

All of the Rulers of Europe Over the Past 2,400 Years Presented in a Timelapse Map (400 B.C. to 2017 A.D.)

(time-lapse video...)
http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/all- ... 7-a-d.html

Watch the Rise and Fall of the British Empire in an Animated Time-Lapse Map ( 519 A.D. to 2014 A.D.)

http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/watc ... 014-d.html

Behold - the mighty New Zealand Empire!

250 Million AD - New Zealand, still doing its own thing...

More people live INSIDE the highlighted 5,000 mi/8,000 km circle than live OUTSIDE it.

A map drawn by an Indigenous guide for Lewis and Clark, recently discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, is the subject of an entire issue of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation’s journal, We Proceeded On. (The issue is not available online.) The map was drawn some time in 1805 by Too Né, a member of the Arikara tribe who in 1804 travelled with the Lewis and Clark expedition in what is now North Dakota, and shows the extent of the territory known to the Arikara at that time.

http://www.maproomblog.com/2018/05/too- ... and-clark/

BTW, for map nerds - fill yer boots, thank me later:

http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240

Lacrobat wrote:

What was the area that is densely populated in the north, moving south-west?

Pat the Ex Mat wrote:

Lacrobat wrote:

What was the area that is densely populated in the north, moving south-west?

Something to do with the Ulster Plantation?