~openculture | Bookmarks (6)
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6,000 Years of History Visualized in a 23-Foot-Long Timeline of World History, Created in 1871
A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal...
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A Web Site That Lets You Find Your Home Address on Pangea
A cool tool. Software engineer Ian Webster has created a website that lets you see how...
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Pangea to the Present to the Future: Watch Animations Showing 500 Million Years of Continental Drift
Things change… Especially when you’re tracking the continental movement from Pangea to the present day in...
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The History of Cartography, the “Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever,” Is Free Online
FYI: The University of Chicago Press has made available online — at no cost –five volumes...
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The World Map That Introduced Scientific Mapmaking to the Medieval Islamic World (1154 AD)
Cast your mind, if you will, to the city of Ceuta. If you’ve never heard of...
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A Map of All the Countries Mentioned in the Bible: What The Countries Were Called Then, and Now
“For most of the last two thousand years, the Bible has been virtually the only history...