The Olympic Games around World War II
No Olympic Summer Games this year. The current COVID-19 pandemic forced the International Olympic Committee to postpone the planned 2020...
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- Mar 5, 2020
- 5 min
Mapping disease outbreaks
The world has been confronted with the outbreak of COVID-19. Maps show the spread of the outbreak, as Snow's Cholera Map did in 1855
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- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
What's that behind the map? A recycled map from Ireland
there is something strange about this 1909 Pictorial Plan of London. Underneath this map, a surprise was waiting
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- Feb 5, 2020
- 3 min
From London to Paris by plane.
This undated map shows the London - Paris route from Imperial Airlines. It's a birds-eye view from the South, and covers the South-East...
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- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
The London Blitz
This Pictorial Plan of London, from around 1947, is one of the few maps showing the destruction caused by German bombs during the Blitz
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