Gritty Gritty Bang Bang is good, surely? And Gritallica?
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Originally posted by Furtho View PostIt was Brazilian coverage when compared with the rest of South America that struck me.
It's the really far-inland ones that caught my eye, particularly those very strung-out ones along the south of Siberia. But they're on navigable rivers, of course - a subject I was just reading about on Wikipedia a week or so ago (having only studied Russian history from the revolution onwards, really, I'd never really understood how all that massive amount of land out to the east came to be run from St. Petersburg and Moscow).
*Not exactly the Atlantic coast, of course, being on an estuary. But shipping-wise, it's the same thing.Last edited by Sam; 17-01-2018, 04:46.
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Originally posted by Sam View PostWell it's not like there are that many people living on the Atlantic coast of South America outside Brazil, apart from Buenos Aires* which is pretty nicely lit up.
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Originally posted by Sam View PostWell it's not like there are that many people living on the Atlantic coast of South America outside Brazil, apart from Buenos Aires* which is pretty nicely lit up. Although I've zoomed in on Montevideo and there's no lighthouse shown there, which seems odd as I've been three times and could have sworn I'd seen one. Brazil-wise I'm actually slightly surprised there's not a bit more action on the Amazon, particularly around Manaus.
It's the really far-inland ones that caught my eye, particularly those very strung-out ones along the south of Siberia. But they're on navigable rivers, of course - a subject I was just reading about on Wikipedia a week or so ago (having only studied Russian history from the revolution onwards, really, I'd never really understood how all that massive amount of land out to the east came to be run from St. Petersburg and Moscow).
*Not exactly the Atlantic coast, of course, being on an estuary. But shipping-wise, it's the same thing.
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Smoking in Europe. The differences between male prevalence and female prevalence is very striking especially in Eastern Europe. 46% of men in Moldova smoke and only 8% of women
https://www.indy100.com/article/men-...cancer-8162391
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This is cheating slightly, because it's data visualisation rather than cartography, but anyway: Wikipedia's lamest edit wars
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You can see the huge open expanses of farmland in that map. I imagine there'd be a ton more of that left, because if the ludicrous mass of highway wasn't built then building growth would have had to be more focused around centers that had working train links, rather than just the monstrous sprawl that now fills almost every inch of that map. And it's a really lovely map.
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This is the map used by Felice Benuzzi during a 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. Detained at P.O.W. Camp 354 near Nanyuki, Kenya, Felice from Trieste, together with two fellow-prisoners Dr. Giovanni ('Giuān') Balletto from Genova and Vincenzo ('Enzo') Barsotti from Lido di Camaiore, escaped in January 1943 and climbed Mt Kenya with improvised equipment and meagre rations, two of them reaching a point on the north face of the Petit Gendarme, at about 5000 metres, high up the NW ridge. After an eventful 18-day period on the mountain (24 January – 10 February), and to the astonishment of the British camp commandant, the three adventurers broke back into Camp 354. As reward for their exploit, they each received 28 days in solitary confinement, commuted to 7 days by the camp commandant in acknowledgement of their "sporting effort".
The book - No Picnic on Mount Kenya - is a mountaineering classic and read by a great deal of us living in Kenya. I've been up Mount Kenya to 5000m and it's no picnic, especially if you're using an Oxo tin as a map.Last edited by Vicarious Thrillseeker; 22-01-2018, 10:00.
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Map that is I think made by The Independent's Jon Stone, who says on Twitter here, "Instead of a bridge duplicating the Channel Tunnel, what about a high speed rail line linking Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin? The North Channel is 21km at its narrowest point, under half the length of the Channel Tunnel."
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