Tag: maps
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Talk about an airline with bad luck this year. Malaysia Airlines—yes of the missing flight in the Indian Ocean fame—lost another aircraft yesterday as separatists in eastern Ukraine allegedly shot it down with an SA-11 Gadfly surface-to-air missile. For those unaware, that is a much more deadly and capable system than the shoulder-launched missiles separatists…
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Smoking in the US
Today’s piece comes from the Washington Post and looks at the prevalence of smoking in the United States and its change over time. Credit for the piece goes to Richard Johnson.
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Death Toll in Gaza and Israel
Today’s piece, the first not on Québec, is a small but poignant reminder of the disparity between the number of deaths in Gaza and in Israel during this most recent conflict. According to the article, as of 16 July there has been one death in Israel for 194 in Gaza. This small piece from the…
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Space…the Final Frontier (Until We Manifest Destiny It)
Taking a Friday’s break from diagrams and graphics from Québec, because it’s really just a small part of space. Space, which is presented below. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.
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City Walls of Québec
Beyond la Citadelle, Québec also enjoys a defensive wall that nearly surrounds Vieux-Québec, or Old Québec. These graphics come from the Barracks Sector, which used to house the Royal Artillery during the British period. The walls in this section of the city date to 1745, but the redoubt in this area goes back to 1712,…
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How to Build a Citadel
La Citadelle de Québec consists of several layers of fortifications that are not discernible to an eye outside the fortification. This has to do with the well-planned angle of the tops of the fortifications. Thankfully, designers said about explaining this through some graphics. While I do not have a great shot from outside the fortress…
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Why Québec Was Important and How it Became English
When I was in Québec I had the good fortune to take photographs of multiple signs and graphics aiming to educate readers about various things. I have spent a bit of my weekend combing through my photographs to see what I can present. The first in today’s post is simply why Québec was so important.…
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Understanding Museum Pieces in French
Yesterday’s piece was from the Musée de la Civilisation à Québec and looked at a bilingual exhibit on Greek and Roman mythology. The museum, of course, had many other exhibits. Today I want to show an interesting bit that explained why the museum, a modern construction dating to the late 1980s, incorporated an 18th century house called…
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Your (not-so) humble author is on holiday in Canada for a couple of days. Thankfully, he is staying away from dogs. Credit for the piece goes to Stats Canada (in no way associated with Statistics Canada).
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Where’s the Beef?
Today I’m enjoying some really good burgers. So via Fastco, today’s graphic looks at cattle, pig, and chicken populations across different regions of the world. In the United States, as you can see in the map here, that dark red spot in eastern Pennsylvania, that has to be Lancaster County. Credit for the piece goes…