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Sunday, December 23, 2012
European Overseas Territories
European Union overseas countries and territories and outermost regions.
The World Divided, 1941
The World divided during World War 2 (July 1941).
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The political alignments of the world are here shown, centering geographically around the North Pole but ideologically and economically around the U.S. The classification keyed below is necessarily simplified and does not of course meet all the subtleties of politics and diplomacy - for instance, the peculiar position of Vichy and its colonies. The special case of the U.S.S.R. is acknowledged by a special color.
The situation is as of July 7, 1941, and is subject to change without notice.Map made by Richard Edes Harrison, Fortune magazine.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Istanbul, Turkey by SkyMap
An interactive isometric map of Istanbul, Turkey with a lot of information, including restaurants, bars, clubs, historical sites, hotels and other points of interest.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Pictures Of Earth At Night
Pictures of Earth at night made by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite.
Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth's land surface and islands. (Source: Nasa)
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| Composite map of the world assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. |
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
UN Recognition of Palestine on Maps
The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve a resolution to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority to a non-member observer stat. The U.N. General Assembly voted 138-9 with 41 abstentions
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