That’s one of my new favorite sites by the way – it’s called Strange Maps. I LOVE maps, especially strange ones. I love old maps – with mermaids and sea monsters on the edges. I also love maps like the ones at the start of the Ring Trilogy – maps of fantasy places, but so well thought out they seem to be real. So a whole blog devoted to maps??? LOVE IT.
Like this.
Or this.
I could stare at that for half an hour straight and not get sick of it. Reminds me of being a little kid and just sitting and looking through the World Atlas. I still love to do that, actually. I am sitting on my bed right now – and from where I sit – I can see three maps on my wall. A world map (already out of date – it lists “Yugoslavia”, for example). A geological map of the county I grew up in in Rhode Island. An old map of Ireland. Love maps.
Here’s another cool one. The blogger’s commentary is good, too – I like the observations.
And I always loved maps like this when I was little. I loved anything that gave me an idea of the SCOPE of things. Like when you learn how many earths would fit in Jupiter, for example. That little factoid blew my 8 year old mind, and I still have not really recovered.
Anyway – it’s a great site – I love it – and I have Tommy to thank for pointing it out to me!
HOW COOL! I love maps – what a wonderful site! This made my morning.
Yep. “Here be dragons.”
Ooh! I have to run now, but I can’t wait to check it out later!
Speaking of Star Wars –
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+wars+holiday+special&search=Search
Featuring Bea Arthur! and introducing Chewbacca’s family.
Its wild that you post on this because just yesterday I was covering a geography lesson with the girls and they were having to share one book to look up state capitols in the NE US…one girl had the “right” orientation of the map while my daughter was having to look at it herself for her work from a “skewed” angle. She started complaining about this, so I told her “learn to read upside down – will give you a very unique perspective”
Dont know why, but it reminds me of something I heard one of my profs say : sometimes archaeologists have to lie down on the ground to “see” the site.
I ran across the site one night trying to find a decent of the Andersonville Prison to print off before I went there. I don’t think I ever saw the prison map, but it’s a cool, cool site.