Howard Burke’s unusual propaganda map from 1940 depicted a split China ruled by the Soviet Union and Japan. History changed course decades later, completely reversing the balance of power.
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Discover how Nazi educational materials used pseudoscientific maps to promote the myth of Germanic origins for all major civilizations.
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This 1957 Times Atlas map centers on the Atlantic Ocean to highlight NATO countries, revealing Cold War alliances through unconventional projection and strategic coloring.
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Long before Monopoly became a household name, an innovative board game from 1822 invited players to explore a young America using a detailed United States map…
Read MoreFamous British mapmaker James Reynolds, who earlier created the magnificent world map dedicated to the distribution of human races, created another amazing map in 1850 – the Panoramic plan of the principal rivers and lakes.
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Fra Mauro, the Venetian cartographer-monk from the late Middle Ages crafted the most objective and detailed world map of his time.
Read MoreThe map published by Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune Magazine in 1941 shows the world divided amid World War II. The American cartographer uses different colors to group all the powers based on their alignment with the two existing sides.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was an Italian genius who is generally acknowledged as one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have existed. He became known for his sketches and notes on science and invention, including cartography, anatomy, botany, paleontology, astronomy.
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In the 1960s, American urban planner David A. Jokinen proposed a controversial plan to modernize Amsterdam. This car-centric vision, known as the Jokinen Plan, would have dramatically altered the city’s landscape. Discover how Amsterdam narrowly avoided this fate and instead became the bicycle-friendly city we know today.
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Maps have been one of the most significant human creativity for millenary. People have invented and used maps to describe, clarify, and navigate their route within the world. Here is an atlas of the most famous maps, from the prehistoric period to modern times.
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