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- Everything you never wanted to know about parenting
- Remembering 13 September 1759
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- Giving Birth in a Baby-Unfriendly Hospital
- Guest Post: Jillian Klean Zwilling on Feminism
- Hiatus
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- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ghosts of Former Indigenous Inhabitants of Stanford University”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: Branner Library Tour
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Opening Up the Data Vault”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “The Arbuckle Illustrated Atlases”
- “Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
- Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
- Part V: John Bull & Uncle Sam, Frenemies
- Monsters, Part 6: Laocoon
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- Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
- Monsters, Part 4: Dismemberment & Bugs
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- Monsters, Part 1: Hydra Round-up
- The Many-Headed Hydra: Monstrous Representations of Canadian Confederation and the American Civil War in Cartoons, 1861-1867
- Now & Then / Then & Now
- Maps: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
- What is a geographer?
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- April Fooling in Map Form
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- Part IV: John & Jonathan, BFFFL
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- “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
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Monthly Archives: May 2015
California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
As a new student member of the California Map Society, I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the Society’s conference at Stanford University on 2 May 2015. The speakers covered a range of fascinating topics. For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing … Continue reading
California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “The Arbuckle Illustrated Atlases”
As a new student member of the California Map Society, I was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the Society’s conference at Stanford University on 2 May 2015. The speakers covered a range of fascinating topics. For the next few … Continue reading
“Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
A similar tale from two Bills:
Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
Once again demonstrating the old adage: “Same sh*t, different day.” UPDATE: Found another one (of many!)… “A democratic version of a famous saying,” Judge, 29 April 1893
Part V: John Bull & Uncle Sam, Frenemies
Sometimes, with perhaps one of the more infamous occasions being the American Revolutionary War / United States War of Independence / That Time England Lost Some Colonies, Uncle Sam and John Bull don’t get along: See also: – Part I: Representations of the US & … Continue reading
Monsters, Part 6: Laocoon
You know how he got attacked by a giant serpent? Well, it’s a popular trope in cartooning as well as sculpture:
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Monsters, Part 5: Slimy, Serpentine Stephen Harper
Hey, I just write the headlines to be eye-catching. The cartoonists did all the real work:
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Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
Looking for an excuse to post about maps of Poland on a relevant holiday, I learned that there is a Constitution Day in Poland. (Thanks, Wikipedia! And Polish lawmakers.) A while back, while wondering around Los Angeles, I saw posters … Continue reading
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