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A Secret History

A Secret History. Margaret Thatcher, aged 57, Prime Minister of Great Britain, pirate, witch and murderess. Guilty! Margaret Thatcher as a pirate in the Argentine press after Britain's invasion of the Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, in 1982. The islands remain a disputed territory: Argentina regards them as occupied

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Topographical and Political Map of Africa

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They say Moscow is a big village, but I do not much care for the phrase, and it is not true at all

They say Moscow is a big village, but I do not much care for the phrase, and it is not true at all. The French rock musician Jacques Dutronc has a more accurate one: Corsica is a small continent, Europe is a large island. You can continue the analogy yourselves

A white house with coloured window frames stands behind shrubs on a steeply sloping street under a blue sky with clouds.

Architecture · Geography · Observations · Humour

Baldwin Street in Dunedin, the world's steepest street, rises almost 50 metres

Greetings to all those who said geometry would never be of any use to them in their lives. Houses on the steepest street in the world, Baldwin Street in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Over a length of 130 metres, the street climbs almost 50 metres

Geography · Science · Nature

Melting of Kilimanjaro's glaciers, deforestation and glacial recession since the 1850s

The rapid melting of the glaciers on the "shining mountain" of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is nowadays linked to the ruthless felling of the rainforests on its slopes. It is believed that, with the disappearance of the forest, the slopes have ceased to store the moisture which they once

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The Whole History of France in the Names of a Single Street

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The Largest Cities of Europe in 1600

Grey map of Europe showing the number of wolves in each country, with zeros on the British Isles and in Iceland, and drawings of wolves and trees.

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Map of wolf numbers across European countries, with none in England

How many wolves live in the countries of Europe? England: 0. One would think that those who lecture the whole world on ecological thinking might have spared their own nature, yet they have disfigured it quite thoroughly

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Interactive map of folk crafts of Nizhny Novgorod Region on the Sobaka.ru website

A very charming "treasure map" of the Nizhny Novgorod Region has appeared on the Sobaka.ru website. The map shows, in interactive form, the main centres of the region's folk crafts and decorative and applied arts, and is at the same time a chronicle of Russian

Colour map of Central Europe showing the many small territories of the Holy Roman Empire, with labels and a list of abbreviations.

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Political map of the Holy Roman Empire in 1359

Has it fallen apart? The Holy Roman Empire in 1359. Mind you don't lose count

NB! · The East · Geography · Society

In 1920 Tokyo had fewer than 3.7 million inhabitants; in 1962 its population reached 10 million; today 37 million people live in the Japanese capital, making it the most populous city in the world

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The Sharpest Photograph of Uranus Yet

A reminder: Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, the third largest by diameter and the fourth by mass in our system. Please look upon this beauty as you did on the starry sky in childhood, and forget all that is transient and vain; leave your sorrows, fears and