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Blog of the Week: The Map Room

Link: http://www.maproomblog.com/ The Map Room is an incredibly interesting blog about infinitely different sorts of maps—from a simplified version of JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth, to India and Pakistan mapped by differing textiles, to the enlightenment and its spread to Europe and … Continue reading

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D-Day infographic Critique

  D-Day, one of the most important and influential events of the 20th Century, is portrayed through various American media outlets over the centuries that show the war more through the allied perspective as opposed to the axis. The invasion … Continue reading

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North Korean Prison Camps Map

The maps of North Korean PrIson Camps were made to introduce North Korean Prison camps through google earth. The map contains two parts, which are the North Korean Prison camps and the google earth. Therefore, we divided our presentation into … Continue reading

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New “Executive Abroad” Map, Courtesy of UR’s Digital Scholarship Lab

[Click on the map above to enter the Executive Abroad site on the DSL’s American Panorama] Before the twentieth-century, no sitting president and only a single secretary of state traveled outside the United States. With several modest and one very … Continue reading

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Blog of the Week: Something About Maps

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com   Somethingaboutmaps is a fascinating cartography blog. A blog kept by Daniel Huffman, not only does the blog contain different maps, but the core of its content focus around Huffman’s cartographic techniques. Mapping islands, overlaying rivers and choosing fonts … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week: Maps of the First World War

https://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/pdf/plp/occasional/OccPaper7.pdf Whereas an Atlas is a books of maps, Maps of The First World War is an essay of maps. All sorts of maps from World War I, depicting supply lines, orders of battles, and America’s largest offensive of the War, are strung … Continue reading

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A Chart of Cosmic Exploration

Click here for a zoomable image (Courtesy of Big Think) A Chart of Cosmic Exploration, on its surface, may seem like a harmless, information-delivering apparatus intended for a casual audience. However, at a time when science is being politicized, this chart … Continue reading

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Fragile States Index (2016) Blog

Our map was the 2016 Fragile State Index. It highlights, based upon several criteria, which states are at the greatest risk of collapse, and those which would likely remain stable for the foreseeable future. The categories nations fall into go … Continue reading

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The Nuclear Club

The Nuclear Club map was created in 1981 in London by Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal. This map can be found in State of the World Atlas, which was part of the Pluto Project. The Pluto Project was the work … Continue reading

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United States Imports and Exports of Commodities: 1967

The map pictured is a representation of U.S. imports and exports of commodities from the year 1967. The National Geographic society compiled the data from the U.S. Bureau of the Consensus and included the map in a 1968 issue. Around … Continue reading

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