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A history of relations between Iran and the West

The Kingdom of Bamum, the best example of indigenous African cartography

The Russian arrival on the Pacific Coast

The Atlas for a Nuclear War

The abyss of demographic winter

Italian irredentism and propaganda

Europa Regina

Lost waters: prehistoric lakes

The blackout: chickpeas, uncertainty and misinformation

Unexpected curves: Drawing straight lines on a map

The Plague

How humans learned to paint the world

Portugal is not a small country

Daylight saving time

Time zones: time standardization

Why does the day have 24 hours?

The United States of Europe: a peculiar history of European federalism

Trump, Google Maps and the names of places

Baltic ice and its advantages

The rise of the jet set and Pan Am in-flight menus

The first regional maps and the first world map

The casualty count of the Battle of the Somme

The Pangaeas that were and the Pangaeas to come

Maps in airborne leaflet propaganda during WWII

Niagara Falls, a remnant of the last ice age

How did North get to the top?

The Great Disaster of Tokyo, 1923

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