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Seconde partie de la carte d'Europe, contenant le Danemark et la Norwege, la Suede et la Russie (a l'exception de l'Ukraine). Publiee sous les auspices de Monseigneur Louis Philippe d'Orleans, Duc d'Orleans, Premier Prince du Sang. Par le Sr.…

Political, cultural, and linguistic borders have shifted significantly since the end of the Cold War, but physical infrastructure continues to divide Europe along the Cold War era political borders. The map showing the track gauges of different train…

A diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre showing traditional site of Calvary and the Tomb of Jesus

Cross-section diagram of the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, in relation to the site believed to be Golgotha

A public memory project carried out in Budapest, Hungary, in 2014, designed to educate and inform both Budapestians and a wider public about the forced relocation of Hungarian Jews and internationals into "yellow-star houses" in June 1944. In 1944, 1…

After my father lost his battle with cancer in 2008 and my mother defeated cancer in 2006 (both of whom, like many Poles, attributed their cancers to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, not genetics), I decided to undergo genetic testing to check for…

This is Isaac Maasa's 1735 map of the Caspian Sea, featuring the eastern shore, the Aral Sea and what were then the lands of the Uzbecks and Kalmykia on the northern edge of the Persian Empire.