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The 1900 Historic Antique Map Collection by Discus Media is a digital library featuring more than 4,000 original cartographic images dating back mainly to the periods of 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s and shortly after the World War I, drawn by different cartographers . You will find here maps of the British Empire, Austro-Hungarian , German , Russian and Ottoman empires. The collection focuses much on cities and towns; one will find here Berlin street plans and maps , Hamburg and Altona maps , Helsinki city maps , Lauzanne street plans , Lisbon city maps , detailed maps of London , plans of Luzern , Lyon , maps, plans and diagrams of Moscow , Munich city maps , Paris street maps, Rome maps and plans , Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) city street maps and many others, offering the best possible contemporary driving instructions of the epoch.
Great explanations are unfortunately scarce, but UUorld makes them easier to achieve through interactive four-dimensional maps. Our solution has three simple parts: We think you'll find four-dimensional mapping delivers results because the medium exposes the spatial and temporal context inherent to nearly all data. Dear Friends, We’ve spent the last year involved in several interesting projects, gathering information on new uses of data visualization and collaborating with industry leaders to design UUorld 2.0 … and now we are pleased to announce that we’re starting its development! We’re going to build a new, better version of our software: we’ll upgrade our data ... continue reading » May 05, 2009
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Frank Jacobs loves maps, but finds most atlases too predictable. He collects and comments on all kinds of intriguing maps—real, fictional, and what-if ones—and has been writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006, first on WordPress and now for Big Think. His map " US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs " has been viewed more than 587,000 times. An anthology of maps from this blog was published by Penguin in 2009 and can be purchased from Amazon and Barnes & Noble .
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1. Type a PRESENT-day Place and a HISTORICAL Year as early as 2000 BC, then hit the "Go!" button. The place you type must be a PRESENT-day city and country; or a present-day address or road name* with city and country. The year must be from 2000 BC through 2008 AD (use negative years for BC, such as -200 for 200 BC). 2.
Historical World Boundary Maps
On the one-year anniversary of Liz Taylor's death, LIFE.com presents previously unpublished photographs of Taylor and her co-star (and soul mate) Montgomery Clift, from the set of the 1951 classic, A Place in the Sun . Read More
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Electricity Around the World
The table below summarizes information on the electrical systems in use in most countries of the world. The voltages listed here are the "nominal" figures reported to be in use at most residential or commercial sites in the country or area named. Most electrical power systems are prone to slight variations in voltage due to demand or other factors.