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The Dazzlingly Colorful Atlases That Brought the Night Sky Within Reach

Detailed maps of the heavens weren't just for scholars.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 16, 2018
The oak is visible on the right of this illustration of <em>Argo Navis</em> from <em>Uranographia</em>, by Johannes Hevelius, 1690.
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The Lost Constellation Meant to Honor a King’s Escape

The oak tree that sheltered Charles II once had a place in the night sky.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 9, 2018
At the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, their Newton tree has grown since 1966.
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How Isaac Newton's Apple Tree Spread Across the World

Clones and descendants of the famed tree grow on 6 continents.
Anne Ewbank June 26, 2018
The barn at the Clemens Farmstead, where James and Sophia Clemens settled in 1818.
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The Forgotten Black Pioneers Who Settled the Midwest

Before the Civil War, free black settlements grew in the Northwest Territory.
Sarah Laskow June 14, 2018
A rat enjoying life in Paris's Parc de Bercy.
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One District in Paris Is Creating a Map of Rat Sightings

The rodent map marks reports of animals both dead and alive.
Sarah Laskow June 12, 2018
A screenshot of the map shows the color-coded sites spread across England.
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This Map Shows 42 Sites of British Suffragette Protest and Sabotage

They've all been officially recognized on the English National Heritage List.
Natasha Frost June 8, 2018
The former location of a Jefferson Davis memorial in New Orleans, which was removed in May of 2017.
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The Racism of American Monuments Goes Well Beyond Confederate Statues

A new map of Civil War-related landmarks is only the beginning.
Cara Giaimo June 7, 2018
"A Map of Chicago's Gangland," from 1931, is full of morbid jokes and facts. Click to zoom in.
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How Many Liquor Bottles Can You Find in This 1931 Map of Chicago?

The "Gangland Map" features drunken fish and goofy jokes alongside descriptions of brutal murders.
Cara Giaimo June 4, 2018
The original illustrated map of The Hundred Acre Wood, by E. H. Shepard.
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For Sale: A Winsome Map Showing the Way to Pooh Corner

Explore the "100 Aker Wood" for only $200,000.
Natasha Frost May 31, 2018
Egypt and Antartica are lightning-free zone areas, but not so much North America.
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The Least Likely Places to Be Struck by Lightning, Mapped

Where to go if you don't enjoy sudden electric bolts from the sky.
Christina Ayele Djossa May 29, 2018
Lava erupting from fissure 22.
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How to See Lava Most Clearly

You'd think it would be simple enough to see bright-red molten rock.
Sarah Laskow May 22, 2018
The <em>Ribbon Map of the Father of Waters</em>—pictured rolled up (left) and fully extended (right)—was meant to be wrapped around a spool and brought on steamboat trips.
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This 11-Foot 'Ribbon Map' Puts the Whole Mississippi River in Your Pocket

Steamboat tourists of the late 1860s wrapped it around a spool.
Cara Giaimo May 7, 2018
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Greenland’s Hand-Sized Wooden Maps Were Used for Storytelling, Not Navigation

These distinctive artifacts are clues to how the Tunumiit people saw the world.
Hans Harmsen May 2, 2018
The sudden disappearance of a country of 4.7 million people.
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Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps?

An island nation's call for help.
Natasha Frost May 2, 2018
Broadway Bicycle School, founded in 1972, is one of the few countercultural spaces in Devin's book that are still around today.
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Mapping the Lost Countercultural Hotspots of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Local librarian Tim Devin has found hundreds of buildings that once housed utopian groups.
Cara Giaimo April 24, 2018
The view from the top of a staircase that helps make up Berkeley's Covert Path.
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Caring for—and Expanding—Berkeley's Hidden Network of Hillside Paths

The California city has over 130 different woodsy shortcuts cutting through its hills and streets.
Cara Giaimo April 4, 2018
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An Online Collection of Maps Highlights the World’s Saddest Spots

Which way to Broken Heart Street?
Natasha Frost April 2, 2018
The Las Vegas strip of 2013, laid over the desert of 1950.
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Explore an Interactive Aerial Map of the Past

Historic Aerials is like Google Maps for time travelers.
Eric Grundhauser March 30, 2018