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Runiverse website opens free access to reference materials on medieval Russian lands

The cultural-historical site Runivers has posted consolidated reference materials on the medieval Russian lands: complete lists of the ruling princes, specially drawn maps of the principalities, and more. All of the materials are freely accessible.

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Reddit has produced a rather splendid and, oddly enough, fairly accurate map of France in the style of Super Mario

Reddit has produced a rather splendid and, oddly enough, fairly accurate map of France in the style of Super Mario. True, part of Lake Geneva has nonetheless been ceded to the Confederation

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Prince Albert I and his ocean research instruments at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Our stroll through the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco continues. In the frame: equipment for exploring the seabed and taking soil samples, along with preserved marine fauna from the time of the museum's founder, Prince Albert I, who, after service in the French navy, devoted his leisure to a

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Edme Mentelle's 1788 globe for the Dauphin on display at the National Library of France

This colossal globe, 1.3 metres in diameter, was made by the renowned geographer Edme Mentelle in 1788 at the commission of Louis XVI for the education of the Dauphin. The outer sphere opens along the prime meridian, which at that time ran through the Canary Islands; on its reverse

Old handwritten land survey plan of Khmelita showing boundaries, fields, woods and inscriptions, hanging on a wall.

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Land survey plan of Khmelita and the 24,000 hectare area of the present-day museum reserve

Survey plan of the lands at Khmelita. Observe that not a single scrap of land went unclaimed: every last inch was made to yield a living. Today the historical, cultural and natural museum-reserve of Khmelita covers 24 thousand hectares

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Wrecksite.eu, the largest shipwreck database with maps and a library

I have found a wildly cool website that will be useful to anyone working on maritime history and naval battles: it is the largest shipwreck database in the world. Here you will find maps, a calendar of accidents at sea, the finds of underwater archaeologists, data on shipowners and shipbuilders,

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A map of London on a kid glove, so that fashionable ladies might easily find their way home

A map of London on a leather glove, so that fashionable ladies might easily find their way home. 1851. These days maps could be printed for them on condoms, for instance

Round medieval map with a green ring of ocean and the labels Asia, Europa and Africa inside.

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Medieval world diagram with three continents and no America

Fine! It is simply a very detailed map of the world, as it would look had there been no America on earth. The map wanders through many medieval treatises and invites one to consider whether books are to be trusted.

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Map of the Isle of Man, 1610, with some curious figures at sea: to the south-east a Norman riding a reptile, to the north-east an Englishman on a lion, to the north-west an Irishman on a fish, to the north a Scotsman on a unicorn

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A page from the "Uranometria", the first atlas of the starry heavens (1603), by the German lawyer Johann Bayer and the cartographer Alexander Mair