Chris, when I was a kid in the early 70s, during the Black Power era, the map of Africa with the US inside it was a popular tshirt worn by many African Americans at the time. I lived in Washington DC during that time and it was common.
Does the creator of the first map not understand the difference between country and continent?
That’s not where Sudan is located, either.
I would’ve thought that the second map would be divided as follows:
North Africa – terrorists West Africa – malaria East+South Africa – AIDS
Pyramids? Egypt is in Africa?? I thought it was in the Middle East…
What, no tigers in Africa??!! But even Obama has a tiger-beating stick from Kenya in his office!
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Mapping War Deaths
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=288
gotta love this one: http://www.popular-pics.com/American_view_of_the_World_Pictures.aspx
Notice how they mention the British Isles separately from Western Europe in the caption of the first map. As if they make such a big difference…
My favorite map, which I keep on my wall:
http://www.wall-maps.com/World/PetersProjection-over.gif
Chris, when I was a kid in the early 70s, during the Black Power era, the map of Africa with the US inside it was a popular tshirt worn by many African Americans at the time. I lived in Washington DC during that time and it was common.
Does the creator of the first map not understand the difference between country and continent?
That’s not where Sudan is located, either.
I would’ve thought that the second map would be divided as follows:
North Africa – terrorists
West Africa – malaria
East+South Africa – AIDS
Pyramids? Egypt is in Africa?? I thought it was in the Middle East…
What, no tigers in Africa??!! But even Obama has a tiger-beating stick from Kenya in his office!
“there are no tigers in Africa”
Ahem.
http://www.jhbzoo.org.za/adopt.html
No “wild” tigers, to be sure…..
This has been your Saturday afternoon pedantry moment and now, back to our regular programming….