Map: Chicago in 1918
“First in violence, deepest in dirt; loud, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a village,”
Map: The World in 1922
More-or-less the peak of the British and French empires, the beginnings of the ‘Italian Empire’ and the ‘Japanese Empire’, and the legacy of the Russian Empire
Map: The Intricate Geology of the Moon
Looking to starting a space-mining enterprise?
Map: Pangea with Modern-Day Borders
In another roughly 250 million years, a new ‘Pangea Proxima’ is expected to be created
Map: The Spread of Buddhism from 500 BC to 1200 AD
The circuitous spread of Buddhism in Southern and Eastern Asia
Map: Every Day of the Mexican-American War
The changing border between the US and Mexico
Map: The Wealthiest Person in Every Country
The wealthiest person outside the US is Frenchman Bernard Arnault
Map: Where the World’s Ultra-Rich Live
If the wealth divide of the last decade looked bad, just wait for what comes next
Map: The Red Planet
Via Joshua Stevens
Map: Manufacturing Output by Country
China accounts for over a quarter of global manufacturing output