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Ancient Earth Interactive Globe

Ancient Earth Interactive Globe
This visualization is created and maintained by Ian Webster. See more of my work at ianww.com or email me at ian@dinosaurpictures.org. Click here to subscribe to occassional email updates when we add something interesting to this visualization such as new dinosaur or plate tectonic data. Plate tectonic and paleogeographic maps by C.R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project. For more information visit: & www.globalgeology.com. Some elements of this visualization are not adjusted for time (eg. cloud and star positions).

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What we can learn by looking at prices and wages in Medieval England Aggregating data from various sources about prices and wages in Late Medieval England (1264 — 1499) gives great insights about the historical period in addition to what’s already known from medieval literature, art, and archaeology. Even though available data is limited and incomplete, with some mining, formatting, and visualization it is possible to extract some solid historical knowledge about events and lives of Late Medieval Englishmen. Data was originally extracted from accounts of civic treasurers, merchants, town markets, and early bankers. Raw data sources are listed at the end of the article. This article summarizes and visualizes some interesting facts inferred from analyzing the data. Some definitions

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