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141 - Europe As A Queen
Europe and Queen were two pretty awful soft metal bands from the Eighties, but fortunately, neither has anything to do with this anthropomorphic map of Europe as a queen. The map was made in 1570 in B… more →
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141 - Europe As A Queen
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wrote 2 years ago: Europe and Queen were two pretty awful soft metal bands from the Eighties, but fortunately, neither … more →
116 - The First, False Map of the ‘True North’
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wrote 2 years ago: Somewhere in the 14th century, a Franciscan from Oxford, a ‘priest with an astrolabe’, writes a trav … more →
62 - Frisland, an Italian Fabrication in the North Atlantic
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wrote 2 years ago: The discovery of America was an Italian enterprise, but not to the credit of a Genoan named Columbus … more →
13 - The retreat of Cornish
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wrote 3 years ago: Cornwall is the southwesternmost county of England. As with other ‘extremities’ of the B … more →
51 - A Colour Map of Utopia
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wrote 3 years ago: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at”, said Oscar Wilde (i … more →
