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| Tango01 | 18 Apr 2014 3:14 p.m. PST |
… Was an Island. "Glen McLaughlin wandered into a London map shop in 1971 and discovered something strange. On a map from 1663 he noticed something he'd never seen before: California was floating like a big green carrot, untethered to the west coast of North America.He bought the map and hung it in his entryway, where it quickly became a conversation piece. It soon grew into an obsession. McLaughlin began to collect other maps showing California as an island."At first we stored them under the bed, but then we were concerned that the cat would pee on them," he said. Ultimately he bought two cases like the ones architects use to store blueprints, and over the next 40 years filled them up with more than 700 maps, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2011, he partly sold and partly donated his collection to Stanford University, which has digitized the maps and created an online exhibition…"
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| Happy Little Trees | 18 Apr 2014 3:23 p.m. PST |
That's just Baja California (currently a part of Mexico). I does a pretty good impression of being an island unless you sail all the way up the Gulf of California/Sea of Cortez. |
| 14Bore | 18 Apr 2014 4:05 p.m. PST |
Maybe it's a glimpse of the future when California breaks away from the mainland. |
| zippyfusenet | 18 Apr 2014 5:58 p.m. PST |
Looks like the Strait of Ainan just to the north. |
| John the OFM | 18 Apr 2014 6:24 p.m. PST |
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Frederick  | 18 Apr 2014 6:56 p.m. PST |
You mean to say California isn't an island? |
| darthfozzywig | 18 Apr 2014 7:16 p.m. PST |
Look, people, San Andreas has an alibi; it's not his fault. |
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