Showing posts with label non-fictional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-fictional. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

How the religious groups follow language groups in Europe

This map is the result of the attempt to combine pictures of religious and language groups in Europe. It's quite easy to see how religious border follow the language ones (or vice versa?), dividing Ol' Good Europe into three main core areas - Germanic-Protestant, Slavic-Orthodox and Romance-Catholic.

This is kind of a summarized picture of all the European internal wars of 10-19th centuries.

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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Manhattan Map - tell me who's your neighbor first!

New York, like any typical American city is built up out of Avenues and Streets, most of them numbered so that you can never tell 29th from 30th. A much easier way to memorize the map and describe a city is by mapping its neighborhoods. Here's a map of Manhattan that will hopefully be useful not only to the tourists, but to Manhattan inhabitants, too (click on the map for bigger version). I'm not sure if it will help you find your neighbors in NYC, but keeping it in memory may be much easier than keeping all the names of Manhattan streets and aves.

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