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This satellite image from Nasa's Earth Observatory displays the stunning contrast in landscape along the border between China and Kazakhstan.

This is a manuscript map, kept in the Department of Manuscripts, Library of the Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). It was created between 1700 and 1705 and features prominently both the trading quarters of the city and some of the city's gardens.

Data retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite. The gif depicts trace concentrations of carbon monoxide in the air at the time of the wildfires in Russia. The cloud of CO from the fires started over…

This image of coal mining in Walbrzych, Silesia (a town a little over 250 kilometers from Piekary, and belonged to the German territory that was given to Poland after the war) accompanied an article illustrating "Life in Silesia," specifically…

An illustration from the 1899 book by John Fraser, Round the world on a wheel

This collage depicts the Caspian Sea as per our lens of connectivity through the deployment of historical images, poems, and mapping.

This composite map of the rail roads, caravan routes, shipping lanes and oil pipelines represents the myriad ways of moving through and around the Caspian Sea from the eighteenth century through the 21st.