Begun around 1448 and completed some time before 1459, Fra Mauro’s World map, illustrated in the figure accompanying this article, is a beautiful object.
You've seen city maps, but what about city maps that show where each gang has its headquarters? Or a map of the globe without water? Here are a few of our favorite randomly bizarre maps.
Aegean Farmers Vashtëmi Körös culture/Criș culture Starčevo culture Linear Pottery culture BMAC Late LBK A shoe-last celt Sopot culture Lengyel culture Tzonevo culture Bug–Dniester culture Cucuteni…
Around this time of year, Dr Adam Smyth provides me with the theme for the annual Birkbeck College medieval and early modern history summer school. The British Library's excellent map collection (still relatively unplumbed by students of early modern history) is usually able to yield a few appropriate maps to...
WOW!! I have not posted in forever (the start of this year has been a bit rougher than previous ones).... BUT, it is time t...
Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, the mechanisms giving rise to these subjective sensations have remained largely unresolved. But Finnish scientists have for the first time mapped areas of the body activated by each emotion, following a study of 700 volunteers from 3 countries. By Guest Writer Michael Forrester
As countries become more developed, they travel diagonally to the upper-right.
lucifelle: “ Polarity Therapy Charts 1-10 “The Wireless Anatomy of Man" Its neat to see this in chart form as we bring these concepts to life during massage. ”
Political map of pre-Mongol Asia c.1200 AD
Distribution map and analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomal DNA samples from the Starčevo–Kőrös–Criș culture.
To the pleasure of any modern-day mudlark, it has turned out that the shorelines of the Thames make for a remarkable archaeological site. In recent years,
A rare map of the world dating back to 1862 has been acquired by the State Library of NSW - which highlights the Japanese used out-of-date information on Australia.
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Nearly half of the people of Europe died during the fourteenth century in a widespread illness called "The Great Plague" or The Black Death.”
Chord Map helps songwriters create chord progressions for writing songs. Online interactive version at learnhowtowritesongs.com/interactive-chord-progression-ge...
Are you considering your first backpacking adventure, but unsure what to bring along? Don't fret! Based on my experiences, these are the seven essentials you can't do without.
Tracing the diffusion of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures and peoples from the Middle East to Europe through DNA.
The Battle of Penn Hill was fought in AD 665 between a British and an Anglo-Saxon coalition at Penn Hill in northern Dumnonia, the precise location of which is unknown. It resulted in a decisive British victory, and reversed the Saxon expansion westwards across Albion. Germanic migrants, mainly from the Angle, Saxon and Jutish tribes, began arriving on the east coast of Albion in the mid-5th century, during the chaos following the Roman withdrawal from the provinces of Britannia. They quickly pe
The British Empire (fl. 1815-1942) was the largest empire in history, larger even than the Mongol empire. It ruled the seas, a fourth of the land and a fourth of mankind. It had more people than ev…
Musical Notation can actually be considered an infographic. Like a map or graph, each element (staff, clef, note, articulation marking, etc.) is a symbol and combined together they make up a visualization of the musical sound. For those of you who know music notation, these will be pretty funny... Impossible Music Source: http://www.2reed.net/2ndhtml/Images/Impossible%20Music2.jpg Sonata for Vuvuzela Source: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiCG9WOVV_GMxK7k7kqoFPrOyCqvK_PrPdf1EC2t11aL8JAaVsUxLVTvsMFoRFI11Gsoo7hwBJwVVf76ZfvRKGtWhVQDR0QSdZypeMTonxbNh7vuJ2r8NYAyE8FBxRp9EWfrlG_p3eOog/s1600/26387_540.jpg Over The Waterfall Source: http://www.kitchenmusician.net/joke/otwjoke.gif
