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a golden toilet installed on the pedestal vacated by the Lenin statue in Kiev

Finding the German Heimat from Igor Ekstajn on Vimeo. https://www.vimeo.com/127927782

An archival photo of Chernobyl "liquidators" involved in the initial cleanup after the nuclear disaster. These particular responders are on the roof of Reactor Three. Note the distortion at the bottom of the photograph from the high levels of…

An early depiction of the Russian Empire by cartographer Isaac Maasa. Whether due to lack of information or assumptions about the size of other empires, this depiction of the Caspian Sea clearly privileges the Russian end of it. Astrkahan and the…

My favorite aspect of this map is its representation of the Russian population that stretches into Siberia and the far east along rivers, depicting Russian colonization. It also reveals various features that were excluded from the map but revealed…

Nusretiye Camii, from S, w/ Cihangir Camii to R in background, the projecting Hunkar Kasri toward L; due to adjacent Tophane (Cannon Foundry), large numbers of cannon in foreground, and center-L middle ground, w/4 officers in L foreground. Great…

Twitter has been the media of choice for protestors in Ferguson and St. Louis, with almost daily updates under the hashtags #Ferguson, #MichaelBrown, #BlackLivesMatter, and many others. This map illustrates the fine grained detail and level of…