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Top cities in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus with the largest number of existing Lenin monuments (as of October 2014)

This visualization captures my walking patterns around Cambridge (it does not include driving, running, cycling, etc). The data was collected in Moves (an iphone app) and "put on the map" using move-o-scope (move-o-scope.halftone.co). The data set…

Map of the town of Astrakhan' by french cartographer Jean-Baptiste Croissey.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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