Augustus S Mitchell's depiction of Principal Mountains Of The World, from A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps Of The Various Empires, Kingdoms, States & Republics Of The World, 1849. Big version here.
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Adam Bolton (Sky News)Originally posted by Kevin S View Post
Also hard not to believe an intern threw your vacuous shite together while you were at lunch.A snake is hardly the most flattering comparison and it's hard not to believe that Bird was having a dig at the much derided "metropolitan elites". His snake has swallowed most of the UK's Remain voting areas - except for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Newcastle.Comment
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The Automobile Club of Southern California's strip map of a detail of the Lincoln Highway from Omaha to Chicago and Philadelphia, 1921. Info and other strip maps here.
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Excellent
Two years earlier, then Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower was a senior officer in a military convoy that travelled from coast to coast, mostly along that route averaging 6 mph.
The experience would be central to Eisenhower’s advocacy of the Interstate Highway System during his presidency.Comment
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That's lovely. But look at all those turns at intersections between Logan and Woodbine. It would drive you insane.
That description of the Eisenhower expedition crossing the desert brings to mind the plank road across the Imperial Dunes - which was literally a road made out of wooden planks placed on top of the sand sea to create a "road" from Yuma to the Imperial Valley (and therefore San Diego, to bring people in for the Panama-California Expo). I've never stopped to try and find a section to look at when driving through, but it sounds like it would have been utterly miserable to traverse.Comment
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Illustration of "the most populated area in the world - Manchester," from The Civic Handbook, 1926.
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Amazingly, Heywood (upper middle) and Royton (far right) used to be in the same parliamentary constituencyComment
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Yeah, but New Mills is in the wrong place. And where's Salford?Comment
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Salford's in the middle with Manchester. The topology has been bent a lot, as Leigh is not that far south either.Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostComment
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Strict Manchester is now what, half a million? Unless Salford is huge, I guess Manchester lost close to Glasgow or Merseyside amounts of people post-war.Comment
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Riffing off the cartoons redux thread, a map of bread roll names.
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Jaysus, Garibaldi was insane wasn't he?Originally posted by Furtho View PostLinguistic map of Sardinia.
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A teacake is something different no? It's bread-y and in a roll shape, but i wouldn't classify it as a bread rollOriginally posted by Aitch View PostComment
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Aw, man, now I want a Tunnock's.Comment
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What GO posted is my idea of a teacakeComment
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In some places also
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That's a McDonalds burger, without the burger.Comment
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GO posted what I consider to be a tea cake. It never occured to me before that Tunnock's Tea Cakes and tea cakes might have the same linguistic root.Comment
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Not a map per se, but this might scratch the same itch for some of youse:
The answer might surprise you!If you lived in a house with the address 5 Station Road, it probably wouldn’t surprise you if you learned that there was another house somewhere in the country which also had the address 5 Station Road. There are, after all, over 2000 streets named Station Road in the UK.
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I found myself wondering what the shortest distance was between two Address Twins – houses with the same number and the same street-name.Comment
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Fascinating. And the end result is utterly bonkers.Comment
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Map showing the location of pigeon stations connecting Moscow to the front, November/December 1941.
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