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Europe's most powerful country is annexed out of existence by its neighbours
Tilt your map 90 degrees to the right, and the elephant reveals itself
To spare the feelings of the good people of his hometown, Sinclair Lewis invented a fictional state as the setting for his novels
A less well-known boundary than America's Continental Divide
A weird marriage of urban planning and personality cult
“If you have to ask for slaw on a hot dog, it’s not a true West Virginia hot dog”
In its most recent issue, The New Yorker magazine revisits one of its most famous covers ever. Saul Steinberg’s cartoon on the front page of the 29 March 1976 issue […]
nn “I was contemplating the logo and slogan of `The Hospitality Industry`, the vaguely named corporation that apparently makes foil/paper wrappers for hamburgers, wondering just what `Special World` they were […]
nn PERTINI DANCE (by S.C.O.R.T.A., 1984) n “What a superstar to be, is the best you can see. n Yes this is a brave man, oh. The first Italian man, […]
For such a small country, Liechtenstein sure has a lot of exclaves (or was that enclaves?)
n A – “Now you’re thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s Old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center […]
n The constellations visible in the northern hemisphere, including the twelve signs of the Zodiac, owe their names to the Babylonians and the Greeks. Only during the last few hundred […]
nn nn Rarely is the question asked: What if Italy had won the Second World War? The more frequently asked question is: What if Germany had won the war? Italy […]
n nn 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, […]
This map, showing the surface and population of selected world cities, is outdated by over two decades.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 […]
n “(…) for the last two years, I’ve been taking pictures of Britain on world maps,” writes Ben Terrett, graphic designer and blogger at Noisy Decent Graphics. Well, not too bad, if that’s […]
Satellite navigation…. decades before the first satellite