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Ebenezer Howard's utopian plan to blur the line between gardens and cities produced a number of depressing 'new towns'
The famous and not-so-famous dead of Pere Lachaise
… But some are more insular than others. Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, according to this disputed article on Wikipedia “best known for his ceramics and his cross-dressing”, is the […]
What if New York had somehow managed to remain New Amsterdam?
There is a 'precious' level to this map, and a naughty one.
Madonna should love this map, having both gone all British and jewish-mystical. This map, in the style of the London Underground(*), depicts the Kaballah Tree of Life. Sephiroth (Hebrew for […]
n Not many people know that the epithet Windy City was bestowed on Chicago not for meteorological but political reasons – apparently, Chicago politicians at one time were known for […]
n Five years have past; five summers, with the lengthnOf five long winters! And again I hearnThese waters, rolling from their mountain-springsnWith a soft inland murmur (…) n So begins […]
n There are three Christmas Islands in the world. One is a small community on mainland Nova Scotia (Canada) named after a nearby island, which is presently called Ghost Island […]
Everybody was getting ready for conflict, but at least they all agreed this map was funny
Vital statistics of Napoleon's deadliest campaign
One of the few best-in-class lists topped by PNG
 n “Geographical manuals in US schools show an amputated Brazil, without the Amazon and the Pantanal. This is how students are taught that these are âinternationalâ areas, in other […]
According to Genesis 4:16 (KJV), “Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.” According to this map, […]
Lost is not only the title of a popular American tv series, it also describes the exasperated feeling of those viewers looking for a semblance of a plot in the […]
n This is interesting: these cartoons obviously are about the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. But since I’m offline while writing this, I can’t find out much more of the context. […]
Mississippi is the poorest of all states, but fortunately also has a happier distinction: it’s the place where most of the quintessentially American music genres originated, from blues and jazz […]
North Korea is the Dark Side of the peninsula, literally.