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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…

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An illustration of the Europe-Asia border marker in the Ural Mountains, from Thomas Knox's 1871 book, Overland through Asia.

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"Konka," a Russian horse-drawn tram, served as a means of transportation in St. Petersburg from 1863 until 1917.

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"Konka," a Russian horse-drawn tram, served as a means of transportation in St. Petersburg from 1863 until 1917.

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"Konka," a Russian horse-drawn tram, served as a means of transportation in St. Petersburg from 1863 until 1917.

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A horse-drawn omnibus on Nevsky Prospekt in Petersburg, 1900. K. Bulla's photo studio can be seen in the background.

Over the course of the long nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of tsarist subjects left the Russian empire and resettled in the major urban centers and university towns of western Europe. This series of interactive visualizations explores the…

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Map of concentrations of cesium-137 in the areas surrounding Chernobyl. This information wasn't released until three years after the event, meaning that there were whole swaths of people in Russia un aware they were in danger at all, as well as…

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"Konka," a Russian horse-drawn tram, served as a means of transportation in St. Petersburg from 1863 until 1917.
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