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| Tango01 | 29 May 2018 9:53 p.m. PST |
….these 3 countries "There's something off about this map. And it's not just the more than 200 pairs of dog's eyes staring back at you. It's a map of the world, but a very peculiar one: some countries and continents are promoted to bigness, while others are deflated and moved, or removed altogether. Why the bizarre re-arrangement? Could this be the work of a rabid anti-Peters projectionist? German cartographer Arno Peters in the 1970s adapted the traditional world map to counter the Eurocentrism implicit in its Mercator Projection. His map magnified Africa and compressed Europe and North America…"
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ZULUPAUL  | 30 May 2018 2:57 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 31 May 2018 11:39 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. Amicalement
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