Strange maps
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I discovered a new blog today: Strange Maps. I'm adding it to my list of favorites.
A few samples:
The South Shall Snack Again, showing that Mississippi is the fattest state in the union.
Praise the Lord and Pass the Dictionary, a linguistic map of Europe published in 1730, with samples of the Lord's prayer in many different languages.
North America, the Balkans Version, interesting in part because I've been listening to Simon Winchester's, "The Fracture Zone" about the Balkans. BTW, I like the descriptions of the terrain in the beginning of the book. It was the sort ...