A visualization of four European empires over the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries:
The bubbles respresent "the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by [areal] extent"; hence Britain's loss of Canada looks like a more significant bursting of the imperial bubble than its loss of India, even though India is obviously a far more important place than Canada.
Via Andrew Sullivan and 3quarksdaily.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Touring the Tour de France
Like cycling? Like maps? The New York Times has a nice interactive map of the Tour de France course:
Stages are numbered; Wednesday's 5th stage is highlighted.
Clicking on a stage lets you view its profile, like this one of the Pyreneesian 8th stage:
Tour de France, if my language skills are not failing me, translates literally as "Tour of France." But France only amounts to 1/6 of the countries through which the Tour travels. Clearly the planning for the Tour suffered from an appalling oversight in this regard; must be embarrassing for the organizers...
Stages are numbered; Wednesday's 5th stage is highlighted.
Clicking on a stage lets you view its profile, like this one of the Pyreneesian 8th stage:
Tour de France, if my language skills are not failing me, translates literally as "Tour of France." But France only amounts to 1/6 of the countries through which the Tour travels. Clearly the planning for the Tour suffered from an appalling oversight in this regard; must be embarrassing for the organizers...
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