Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...
If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...
The commander of U.S. Forces Korea is urging military planners to rethink how they view East Asia — literally — by rotating the map. Army Gen. Xavier Brunson argues that turning a regional map 90 ...
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A map is an attractive thing. As visual objects, maps are complex works of art that combine skilled drawing ability and ...
Gen. Xavier Brunson, the commander of US Forces Korea, presented an upside-down map of East Asia to stress the role of USFK and the strategic value of the Korean Peninsula in deterring China and ...
A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...
Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...
Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...
Red Sea Festival chiefs are playing up Saudi event's 'East Meets West' role reflected in opener 'Giant' starring ...
UN report tallies world toll of AIDS; Indonesia invades East Timor; US military evacuates Pyongyang; Saudi forces capture ...
In a region long defined by conflict and cautious diplomacy, a quiet but potentially transformative project is underway: a ...