Category: Map
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A House by Any Other Address
Yesterday, the BBC reported a William Shakespeare expert’s research into unrelated materials uncovered the lost address of a home owned by the Bard in Central London. Ironically, the very spot the researcher, Professor Lucy Munro of King’s College, identified is presently marked by a blue plaque—a marker system used in the UK to identify sites…
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Peeps People in Pennsylvania
As many long-time readers know, my Carpatho–Rusyn origins means my family observes Orthodox Easter, which usually does not coincide with what I call Catholic Easter—because the other part of my background is Irish Catholic, so growing up there were two Easters. Now we just observe the one and so later today I am headed back…
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Iran, Not Persia
So if you’ve a date in Tehran, she’ll be waiting, in, well, Tehran. Happy Friday, all. On Monday I critiqued a graphic from Bloomberg about airstrikes in the Middle East. As we head into the weekend, I opted to pull one of my (many) atlases off the bookshelf, because I just wanted to see how…