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The Sea of Okhotsk on a 1715 map and its earlier names from Lama to Penzhinsky

Lamskoe vel Penschinskoe more on the map Generalis Totius Imperii Russorum of 1715: that is to say, here is the Sea of Okhotsk, which has other names too. Namely: Akiyan, Lamskoe, Kamchatskoe, Lalayskoe, Penzhinskoe, or simply Lama, the oldest of those known. Lama was what the local people, the Tungus,

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Mercury's tail consists of surface particles ejected by micrometeorites

Professor of Planetary Science Paul Byrne explains that what we see in this photograph by the astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer is not a comet but Mercury. The reason it has a tail is that micrometeorites bombard the planet's surface and throw tiny fragments of it out into space. These

Close-up of the Moon with coloured surface tones and craters, with Saturn and its rings visible above the limb against the dark sky.

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Andrew McCarty photographed Saturn being occulted by the Moon from a Hawaiian volcano

Saturn emerging from behind the Moon. The American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy climbed to the summit of a volcano in Hawaii to photograph Saturn being briefly covered by the Moon. The Mauna Kea Observatory, where the picture was taken, stands on the volcano at an altitude of between 3,700 and

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Marble maps charting the territorial growth of the Roman Empire, set up under Benito Mussolini on the walls of the Basilica of Maxentius, the last building of imperial Rome

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The Official Map of Argentina

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Mentions of Various Countries in the Polish Anthem

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The History of One English Road, from the Cretaceous to the Present Day

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A Rolls-Royce Crosses a River in Nepal, 1950

Infographic of the tallest buildings on every continent, with a world map and a ranking of five skyscrapers for each region.

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All five tallest skyscrapers in Europe stand in Moscow and Saint Petersburg

The tallest buildings in the world. Russia has all five of the highest skyscrapers in Europe: the Lakhta Centre in Saint Petersburg, and the Federation Tower, the Oko, the Neva Towers and the Mercury City Tower in Moscow

Globe of the Earth on a black background, almost entirely covered by the dark blue water of the Pacific Ocean, with New Zealand at lower left.

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The Earth seen from the Pacific Ocean, with almost no land in view

Our planet from a rare angle. Few people know it, but this is how the Earth looks from the side of the Pacific Ocean

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Topographic map of Asia shows why Tibet is called the Roof of the World

A topographical map of Asia. A graphic answer to the question of why Tibet is called the Roof of the World: the average height of its territory is 4,000 m above sea level, and it is the largest mountain system by area. A mountain system on the continent. The

The Moscow River with a bright green patch of algae along the embankment under a stormy sky.

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Patches of algae bloom in the Moscow River and their possible causes

I have many questions about the Tiber and the Seine, as ever; the Moskva, by comparison, is of course very clean, but even it has such pockets of "blooming". I suppose the accumulation of algae may be connected with the high solar activity this summer, with temperatures and