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While the ability to map correctly is pretty recent it amazes me even our bronze age descendants were trading with a great deal of the european and beyond continent, not only trading but finding their way back .

If the vikings discovered america then trade was pretty well worldwide pre mappa mundi

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

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Good find Chris, thanks.

 

You might find this book interesting also - ie why maps and knowing where you are is important.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Distance

 

 

RNLI Governor

 

World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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I put a link to hundreds of maps of all ages a few years ago on here ,must look for it i lost my own bookmark!

 

Here it is

http://www.maphistory.info/imagebi.html#eng

Interestingly for you londoners look at booths poverty map ,that house you just spent hundreds of thousands of quid on could have been regarded a slum area then ,how things change

Probably the best thing for london was the blitz

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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Chesters,

 

Not if you had to crawl out of the rubble of your dads house.

 

You really can be the most obnoxious guy sometimes.

 

I put a link to hundreds of maps of all ages a few years ago on here ,must look for it i lost my own bookmark!


Probably the best thing for london was the blitz

 

Good find Chris, liked the vid about the fake map :)

 

Den

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Chesters,

 

Not if you had to crawl out of the rubble of your dads house.

 

You really can be the most obnoxious guy sometimes.

 

 

Good find Chris, liked the vid about the fake map :)

 

Den

The blitz got rid of houses that had long been slums ,your dont have the high ground on death i was born in deptford a great number of my kin died in the blitz go **** yourself

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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If you're a lover of maps like me - there's a terrific article on the Beeb website today...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30840318

 

C.

Shouldn't it be "The World that shaped maps?" ;-)

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