The larger the dot, the more enslaved people on board. And if you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag—was it British? Portuguese? French?—its origin point ...

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

Here is an index map of 20 major timber types in the United States as defined by the Society of American Foresters. Each forest type listed on the map is presented where it most frequently occurs ...

The Nature of Fascism, U.K. Edition, 1968: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. He went on in his review to state that “[Rosenberg] is not a brilliant stylist,” yet “everything he puts down is ...

Bizarrely, 62% of young Americans hold a “favorable view” of socialism. How can they be so ignorant? Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It’s failed. It always fails. China ...

The oldest part of the mill opened as a textile producer in 1848. Investors purchased another nearby mill, making the complex one of the largest cotton mills in the state by 1870, and employed ...

If the adoption of AI feels different from any tech revolution you may have experienced before — mobile, social, cloud computing — it actually is. Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a ...

The era of coin confusion came to an end, and the age of the Swiss franc had begun. 1848 map of Swiss national council constituencies. The Coinage Act of 1850 introduced Switzerland’s first ...

For much of the 19th century, it succeeded. Major wars between the great powers were averted, and most crises, such as the Belgian revolt (1830) and the revolutions of 1848, were managed ...

The Japanese government has released a Minecraft map of the world’s largest underground flood prevention facility. Not only is it free to download, but it lets you explore one of the Tokyo area ...

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