Are science and religion doomed to conflict with each other? Looking at the map above, it seems that for the time being, in many countries, science and religion remain at odds.
How To Write The Date In Different Countries
Countries Named After People
Ever fantasized about running your own country? How about naming one after yourself? As the map above shows, a select group of individuals have achieved a degree of immortality due to countries being named after them.
4 Maps That Put China’s & India’s Populations Into Perspective
TeaDranks, creator of the widely popular World Population Cartogram, is back again with 4 new population inspired maps.
If Frodo & Sam Had Google Maps Of Middle Earth
If Sam and Frodo had had this Google Map of Middle Earth, their journey would likely have been a lot easier than the one in the Lord of the Rings. Created by Mark Crosby the map has all sorts of wonderful additions.
For example:
7 Tube Maps Only The Colour Blind Will Truly Appreciate
Ever think London’s tube map looks confusing? Now imagine trying to use it, but you couldn’t easily distinguish between the colours of each line.
Well for hundreds of thousands of colour blind Londoners, this is their reality each and every day.
Football vs Soccer
Depending on where you live, football and soccer can refer to completely different games. For example, in America football refers to American football whereas in the UK it refers to association football, which in America would be called soccer.
Top 100 International Tourist Destination Cities By Country
Which city is the most popular international tourist destination? Surprisingly, it’s not Paris, London or New York.
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Scotland, Are You Even Trying?
As unoriginal place names go, Loch Lochy (in Lochaber) has to be at the top of the list. I imagine whoever named it was at the end of a long day of loch naming and said to himself, “fuck it, I’m off to the pub.”
Countries That Were Raided Or Settled By The Vikings Based On Modern Borders
While we tend to think of the Vikings as being based in and around Scandinavia, their activities took them a lot far further afield than that. The map above shows just how far.