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- Swiss Elections
Via Maproom comes this interactive map of the Swiss elections from several weeks ago.
Switzerland is a tapestry of languages and heritages, and its politics is equally mixed—the Swiss People’s Party came out ahead with 29% of the vote, followed by the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland with 19.5%, the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland with [...]
- Online old map repository
RGS map of Drake’s circumnavigation, 1914
Scans of 19th and early 20th century maps at Hipkiss.org. Includes reliefs, steamship routes, cities, etc.
- When USSR Air Travel Was Restricted
Via Joe at MF comes this map of Japan Airlines routes circa the late 1960s:
Why the peculiar routes to Europe? The Soviets banned commercial flights from entering USSR space unless they were approved to fly into a Soviet airport. Flights south stopping at numerous airports were tedious, so Anchorage International Airport in Alaska [...]
- Legal Systems of the World
Hat tip to Joe, from Wikipedia comes this interesting map of the legal systems of the world.
In brief:
Civil Law is the most widespread legal system in the world, where the central source of law is codified in statutes passed by legislation. This can first be traced to Bablyon and later Justinian Rome, where it [...]
- Conan O’Brien Hates My Homeland
The concept:
Awhile ago, Conan did a bit where he showed fake Euro coins. One of those coins made fun of the Ukraine, which provoked a lot of angry letters. Here’s the interesting part: those letters were from the Ukraine. Conan had no idea that Late Night was aired in the Ukraine, and [...]
- Landlocked Navies, Part 4: Central Africa
Note: I’m away on vacation biking around Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido with family. The posts in this series are autoposted. Hope you enjoy.
In the fourth part of this series, I bring to your attention the navies of several landlocked African nations, the Central African Republic, Uganda, and Rwanda (plus a note [...]
- Landlocked Navies, Part 3: Mongolia
Note: I’m away on vacation biking around Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido with family. The posts in this series are autoposted. Hope you enjoy.
In the 13th century, Mongolia had the largest and most powerful navy in the world. Today, the Mongolian Navy has three boats, two guns, one engine, and [...]
- Landlocked Navies, Part 2: Kazakhstan
Note: I’m away on vacation biking around Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido with family. The posts in this series are autoposted. Hope you enjoy.
Central Asia is the region in the world furthest from the ocean. One of its few bodies of water, the Aral sea, is running dry. But that hasn’t [...]
- Landlocked Navies, Part 1: Paraguay
Note: I’m away on vacation biking around Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido with family. The posts in this series are autoposted. Hope you enjoy.
Paraguay is a small Latin American country sandwiched between Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil. It is a geographical mix of desert and rivers, and landlocked hundreds of miles from [...]
- Off on a trip to Hokkaido
I will be spending the next ten days cycling around Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido with family. Regular readers may recall that I did a similar trip last year, and some pictures of the beautiful flora and fauna were posted shortly thereafter here.
The map of the recent trip and the planned trip can be [...]
