I like maps, and the /r/MapPorn subreddit is a great one for interesting maps.
From Google searches:
Map Porn
I like maps, and the /r/MapPorn subreddit is a great one for interesting maps.
From Google searches:
"Original map by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854. The pump {source of outbreak} is located at the intersection of Broad Street and Cambridge Street." This was one of the first epidemiology studies of the modern era in public health.
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John Snow? He knew nothing.Originally Posted by MacGuffin
(holy crap an hour and a half and I'm the first one to show up and say that?)
"I don't have psychological problems." --Madrigal
"When you write about shooting Polemarch in the head, that's more like a first-person view, like you're there looking down the sight of the gun." --Utisz
David Wong, regarding Chicago
Six centuries ago, the pre-Colombian natives who settled here named this region with a word which in their language means "the Mouth of Shadow". Later, the Iroquois who showed up and inexplicably slaughtered every man, woman and child renamed it "Seriously, Fuck that Place". When French explorer Jacques Marquette passed through the area he marked his map with a drawing of a brownish blob emerging from between the Devil's buttocks.
Not true. He knew Ygritte.
Also, note the first map, where it says Colorado is the best state.
This just in: I'm accepting all friend requests too unless you're a fricken jerk and I can't stand your existence and inane drivel. If that's the case, then I'll accept your friend request so I can keep an eye on your ass unless you don't hold any interest for me; then only the threat of keeping my eye on you stands. feces
And Massachusetts is simply the best. Yeah, it probably just says a lot about where narcissism breeds strong.
"I don't have psychological problems." --Madrigal
"When you write about shooting Polemarch in the head, that's more like a first-person view, like you're there looking down the sight of the gun." --Utisz
David Wong, regarding Chicago
Six centuries ago, the pre-Colombian natives who settled here named this region with a word which in their language means "the Mouth of Shadow". Later, the Iroquois who showed up and inexplicably slaughtered every man, woman and child renamed it "Seriously, Fuck that Place". When French explorer Jacques Marquette passed through the area he marked his map with a drawing of a brownish blob emerging from between the Devil's buttocks.
I live in a southern state. Yay.
Lol. I just noticed the ones that just say "a state."
No map collection is complete without this one.
from about 1300. "the largest, most detailed and most perfectly preserved medieval map in the world"
mine map.
Shows every brothel, bar, casino, and saloon that existed in the Levee District (Chicago) between 1870 and 1905.
natural disasters.
Spoiler: long map
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