How far does $100 go? I suppose a literal answer to that question might be 1,223.8 miles (1,969.5 kilometers for the non-US, Liberia, or Myanmar readers). That’s the distance from Rochester, NY to Orlando, FL. Okay, so what? Well, that happens to be the furthest distance you can travel by… Read more“Map Monday, How far does $100 go?”
Category: Maps
Map Monday, World Records by US States
As a kid my friends and I were fascinated with world records. One Christmas I received a copy of The Guinness Book of World Records. It was a trade sized book with pages as thin as the phone book. (For those of you under 30 the phone book contained the… Read more“Map Monday, World Records by US States”
Map Monday, Africa without European Imperialism
What would a modern political map of Africa look like without European imperialism? After recently sharing a map of North America without European colonization, Charles Ray, a fine author, reviewer, and sometime reader of this blog, asked if I could present a similar map of Africa. While I’ve received occasional… Read more“Map Monday, Africa without European Imperialism”
