This is the grave of William Rand. Born in 1828 in Quincy, Massachusetts, Rand grew up in a religious household. His father was a minister. He grew up in the town of East Milton and he went to the local schools, pretty normal childhood. His...
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Map of Florida and Cuba, 1591
Historians know the value of Sanborn maps, those amazing fire insurance maps that mapped cities over time. But they are useful to lots of people. I have a friend who.
Who wants to see a new immigration map showing where people came from to the U.S. by the decade, from the early 19th century to the present? You should because it's pretty cool and bright and shiny. Also because it's useful.
If you like cool visualizations of how sprawl in Los Angeles occurred by noting the age of every building in the city, then this is for you.
I've always found the old maps with imagined sea monsters in unexplored places particularly fascinating. Marina Warner has a long essay in the New York Review of Books about them..
Here is a pretty cool map of precinct-level support in three Seattle municipal races from last month: mayoral (Ed Murray v incumbent Mike McGinn), one city council seat (socialist聽Kshama Sawant against incumbent Richard Conlin) and support for Seattle聽Proposition 1, public financing for campaigns. 聽Murray and...