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 Napoleon's Empire at its peak in 1812. Motherfucker made up for his (not really) shortness in sheer badass and UNLIMITED POWERRRR! /starwars  drat Limeys, Krauts, and Ivans ruining everything at Waterloo.  Cialis Railman posted:I love how metal some of the names are. Land of the Wanderers! Stronghold Isle! SEA OF WARRIORS! If we're talking about silly true names I suppose it would be remiss not to mention Riceland and its capital, Northern Capital. e: Land of the Naked Ones! I'm not sure if I should go there, because there's probably an off-chance I run into some nut who furiously shakes his dick in my face. Gen. Ripper has a new favorite as of 06:46 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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Surrealist Map of the World Originally intended for the Surrealists' second journal Surrealism In Service to the Revolution, it actually ended up in the Belgian magazine Varietes. Probably made by Eluard, it demonstrates the group's obsession with Asia and antipathy toward Europe and the US, and has a goofy equator that vaguely corresponds to Eluard's previous trip around the world.
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A changing map of Europe during World War II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVEy1tC7nk&hd=1
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omnibobb posted:Is it good? It's very much a young adult novel. There's some really interesting world building stuff, but boy do you have to slog through the most generic teen romance.
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sticklefifer posted:Clearly you missed Steps of the Black One. British Columbia is Doveland of the Tattooed, though I am particularly fond of this area around PEI.  I particularly like how Where Bears Are Hunted is across the lake from Where One Hunts For Bear. Improbable Lobster has a new favorite as of 08:21 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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I think you may have missed New Land of Darkness! 
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Fernhill posted:
Massive thanks for this - I've not come across this before, I do love my weird maps. I was so taken by it that I emailed the gallery in NY that suggested that it sold prints. I present here for your amusement their reply. quote:Hi Teach, Now, I've got a bit of spare cash, and I don't mind spending it on luxuries now and then, but I'll admit that's several orders of magnitude more than I was expecting! (Haven't replied yet, but I think I will!)
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HMS Beagle posted:It's very much a young adult novel. There's some really interesting world building stuff, but boy do you have to slog through the most generic teen romance. I only read cheesy books on the toilet at work so I'm about 25% of the way through and so far it's alright. A lot of neat world building stuff and no generic teen romance yet!
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Those true name maps contain a lot that is based on some really dubious stuff. For instance I saw that their name for "New York" is based on a debunked folk etymology for the city of York in Britain. They are fun though.
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They're also pretty inconsistent about what they consider a "literal meaning", like, Johnston could be John's Town or it could be Inhabited Area Belonging to The-Great-I-AM-Is-Gracious.
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made of bees posted:They're also pretty inconsistent about what they consider a "literal meaning", like, Johnston could be John's Town or it could be Inhabited Area Belonging to The-Great-I-AM-Is-Gracious. Or the literal translation of "Presque Isle, Maine" would be "Nearly Island, Maine" but it would really be translated as "Penninsula, Maine"
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Teach posted:Now, I've got a bit of spare cash, and I don't mind spending it on luxuries now and then, but I'll admit that's several orders of magnitude more than I was expecting! (Haven't replied yet, but I think I will!) Be honest and tell us what they say. I always feel embarrassed after an inquiry solicits a price beyond my wildest dreams, but there's probably no need to be, I bet they get it all the time. For content, I've always loved the Melbourne tram map - not to scale. Biggest tram network in the world. 
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I'm loving this thread!! Quick story: When I was a freshman in high school, I was somehow volunteered to help with some renovating of our school library. The teacher in charge gave me the job of getting rid of the entire National Geographic section, they wanted it thrown out.(not sure why) So, with the help of one other fellow student we took boxes upon boxes of these magazines to the dumpster to be thrown away. However, as many of you know, every so often Nat Geo will have an amazing map inserted in a random issue. Well, after all was said and done, I had a healthy collection of amazing maps of all types from the early 60s to the early 90s. I had a fantastic rotation of maps on my bedroom walls all throughout high school. I still have most of them in a giant box in my attic! 
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What the hell do they call soda in central New Mexico?
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Fernhill posted:A changing map of Europe during World War II: Awesome! This is like a replay at the end of a game of Civilization. I've always wanted to see those for real history.
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I like how St. Louis is somehow this weird giant oasis of soda in the midst of the great pop and coke war.
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 For most Americans the borders of the 13 colonies seem ancient and indisputable, but for a long time there were massive disputes about how to carve up this new continent. Vermont was created because New York and New Hampshire couldn't settle on a border and it was decided that the overlap would belong to neither one of them. Maine was originally an unconnected part of Massachusetts. Virginia thought it owned a quarter of the continent. Just two years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, Pennsylvania claimed half of Western New York. Maps predating the revolution can look kind of weird and unfamiliar, depending upon where they were made: 
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freebooter posted:Be honest and tell us what they say. I always feel embarrassed after an inquiry solicits a price beyond my wildest dreams, but there's probably no need to be, I bet they get it all the time. Here you go! First, my reply to them. quote:Dear xxxxx, thank you very much for your prompt reply, I appreciate it! And very quickly, I got this back from her. quote:Hi Teach, So, they handled it pretty well, and I get a catalogue of other stuff to look at, and if I find myself in NY, I'll be sure to pop in. I've enjoyed the whole back-and-forth!
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Christo posted:I discovered this website years ago and its series of alternate earths and theoretical planets that are extremely thorough and thought-out, taking into account climate, ecology and even culture. I'm not extremely knowledgeable on this sort of thing so maybe all the science is pulled out of the writer's rear end, but to a layman its still pretty interesting. There's so much material describing the various regions accompanying each map that it would easily take hours to go through it all but if you're a giant dork like its worth an afternoon. Great, I've just spent an hour reading what are essentially geology and geography fanfics  (Nice post) HenessyHero has a new favorite as of 00:10 on Dec 14, 2013 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:British Columbia is Doveland of the Tattooed, though I am particularly fond of this area around PEI. That's not a lake it's says right on the map that it's the gulf of st Lawrence
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omnibobb posted:Is it "Cape Lookout!"? Land of the Flow 
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sticklefifer posted:I like how St. Louis is somehow this weird giant oasis of soda in the midst of the great pop and coke war. And Trinity County is the last haven for Cokeists under an all-out siege by Sodaites. 
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I think it's interesting that you can kind of see the way Virginia and North Carolina are gradually shifting from the south to the northeast culturally in that soda/pop/coke map.
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The coke thing is what really bothers me. "What would you like to drink?" "A coke." "What sort of coke?" "Sprite." -- "What sort of ice cream do you want?" "Vanilla." "What kind of vanilla?" "Double chocolate."
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It would actually be like: What kind of aspirin do you want? Bayer.
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bewilderment posted:The coke thing is what really bothers me. It makes perfect sense to me. There are more maps like that here. I like how several of the maps have "I have no idea what you're talking about" or a "We don't have a word for that" as common answers.
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Cialis Railman posted:I love how metal some of the names are. Land of the Wanderers! Stronghold Isle! SEA OF WARRIORS! Well, they're not bad, but they're no KANGARAT MURDER SOCIETY. 
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7c Nickel posted:Well, they're not bad, but they're no KANGARAT MURDER SOCIETY. So Scandinavia is exactly the same as it is today?
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European feudalism led to some interesting maps. 
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Kakairo posted:I have had more contemporary versions of this map on my bedroom wall since I was five or so, replacing it every few years with the updated edition. This is the version I grew up with: 
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No love for End-World? Or Ooo? 
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Ensign_Ricky posted:No love for End-World? Is Ooo Australia? Cause that'd be hilarious.
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omnibobb posted:Is Ooo Australia? Cause that'd be hilarious. That or post-cataclysm North America.
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Huh, hadn't seen that one before. The classic repurposing of the Tube Map is The Great Bear: 
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omnibobb posted:Is Ooo Australia? Cause that'd be hilarious. The creatures in Ooo aren't that deadly.
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Almost 99% of the maps being posted in GBS 2.1's best video game maps thread fit here. I stand by my post in that thread, mofuckin Vvardenfell: 
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7c Nickel posted:Well, they're not bad, but they're no KANGARAT MURDER SOCIETY. Every time I see this map, I find something new and amazing about it. Kangarat Murder Society has always been my favorite but now I'm partial to Raji-Land: Home of a Million Sleepers and Communi-Bear Silo State. Edit: God bless Jack Kirby's wonderful mind, RIP
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 If you can find Ursa Minor in the sky, follow the small branch to find the North Star. The thing about constellations is that they were invented by the Greeks two thousand years ago, and since then the stars have moved so far that they no longer resemble what they're supposed to.
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That loving Sned posted:
That's completely wrong. The Greeks didn't create constellations (though most of the constellations in the Northern hemisphere are of Greek origin) and all the constellations today appear exactly as they did 2000 years ago. The constellations of the zodiac have shifted across the ecliptic by about a month since then but they still appear the same. edit: I looked into the bit about constellations changing, and they do in fact change so I stand corrected. However it isn't till about 50,000 years before they start becoming unrecognizable, so at 2000 years they would still be relatively the same. Metroid Fitzgerald has a new favorite as of 05:00 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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