Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@incarnedine_v wrote: yeah, but most stories pop up at least once each year on Boing Boing. Read full topic
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@incarnedine_v wrote: Aloisius: Everyone should own a globe Where else would I keep my booze? Read full topic
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@jerwin wrote: I have a feeling that those who buy a globe for thousands of dollars guineas will be stuck with 2015 geography for a very long time-- perhaps generations. Read full topic
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@hereticbranding wrote: boozeglobe By the time you're to the tropics, you'll no longer care about axial tilt I kinda want this... Read full topic
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@Liam1 wrote: doctorow: representing Africa on maps and GLOBES dramatically understates the size of the continent Wait, why say "globes"? Isn't it the point that globes don't misrepresent the sizes of...
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@MrWoods wrote: So glad you shared that, I was just looking for a £39,000 globe and couldn't find any. In all honesty those are gorgeous. Read full topic
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@Joseph_Hake wrote: How many countries fit into other continents? Read full topic
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@fuzzyfungus wrote: I suspect that this question is both verging on imponderable and stepping into contentious territory; but I always wonder, when I see these sorts of info graphics, how things would...
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@clevername wrote: Hmm, someone should make a dry-erase globe. Read full topic
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@Purplecat wrote: fuzzyfungus: TL;DR, Africa is huge, resource rich, and biologically verdant, why is it that Europe isn't the one that got colonized into the ground? (Same question for the Americas,...
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@milliefink wrote: Joseph_Hake: How many countries fit into other continents? All of them? Read full topic
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@Crnk wrote: News flash: large continents with quite a few countries can be compared to the areas of quite a few other countries cobbled together.So when are we going to see a similar map for one or...
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@MrShiv wrote: The Marauding Carto-Nerd has disputed this "map". Here's where Krause's map seems to fail: China is not the same shape and has been warped to fit neatly overMadagascar. The contiguous...
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@hungryjoe wrote: I think it's a mistake to say that Europe has never been colonized into the ground. Its history is nonstop violent displacement, replacement, and annihilation of different...
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@SamSam wrote: When I click the cartoon, it pops up to be as tall as my browser, and then a second click will make it full-size. That seems like a pretty good UI to me — some images are needlessly...
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@IanMcLoud wrote: I agree, the UI you describe sounds good to me. (I'm running FireFox version 38.0.5 (WTF.... this versioning is really out of hand) on a Windows 7 Enterprise machine. Machine is...
View ArticleEurope, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@Mindysan33 wrote: During the Cold War, most people called the Soviet Union russia, even though it was a federation of states... including the Russians themselves. "Long horn anti-Leninists".......
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@Mindysan33 wrote: Except people made choices to take over other places, because they felt the "wrong people" were on their diamonds, oil, gold, silver, trace metals, etc. The decision to colonize...
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@Mindysan33 wrote: Janet Abu-Lughod has some answers perhaps? www.amazon.com Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 "A provocative, well-researched, imaginative book."--Contemporary...
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Europe, China, India & US comfortably fit into Africa's landmass
@L_Mariachi wrote: fuzzyfungus: why is it that Europe isn't the one that got colonized into the ground? It did, starting about 40,000 years ago. Read full topic
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