Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
If you love Star Wars, you’re bound to love the board games below.
Some, such as Rebellion and Armada, are brand new stand-alone board games, whereas others such as Risk and Clue take old classics set them in the Star Wars universe.
Pandemic is one of the more popular map based strategy board games around.
In fact, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 is currently the best rated game on BoardGameGeek.com.
Hasbro’s The Game of Life is a modern classic just like Monopoly, Risk or Catan.
And just like those games there a many different alternative versions and editions you can try if you’re board of just playing the standard original game.
Monopoly is one of the most popular board games of all-time. And that popularity has translated into countless different versions, editions and variations of the game.
Below we look at 21 unique versions you can buy online.
Everything from an 80th anniversary edition of the Classic Original to Empire to Junior to the Ultimate Banking Edition and so many more.
Looking for the perfect kids globe for your child or children? Below we look at 11 wonderful educational globes that will hopefully spark a lifelong interest in learning and geography.
Looking for the perfect globe drinks cabinet or bar? Well the options below are some of the best you can buy online and are all available from Amazon.
If you’re not British, or spent much time in the United Kingdom, you may never have heard of the Ordnance Survey.
The Ordnance Survey is Britain’s national mapping agency and has been producing maps for the public since 1801 (For a complete history have a look at: Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey)
Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain and largest volcano on any planet in the solar system.
Its height from base to peak is 21.9 km (13.6 mi or 72,000 ft) or 26 km (16.2 miles) above the northern plains. This makes it at least two and a half times taller than Mount Everest’s height above sea level.
The map comparison above shows what the land area of what makes up the Netherlands today, looked like in 1300 compared to what it looked like in 2000.
Around 17% of the country’s current land area has been reclaimed from the sea or lakes.
You can see a gif of this process below:
The map above shows the different highway route marker shield designs used by each US state for their own state highways.
While Interstate and US Numbered Highways use standard designs across the country, but the same can not be said of state highway markers.