{"id":99,"date":"2008-12-11T20:41:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T18:03:18","slug":"link-strange-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/link-strange-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Link: Strange Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given they have just pushed out a mega update it seems a good time to link to <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/articles\/?blog=strange-maps\">Strange Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A really interesting site, especially if like me, you are a huge nerd.<\/p>\n<p>There are all sorts of maps, from fantastical ones to real ones of countries that don&#8217;t exist and micro-nations which existed for a brief glimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Some strange examples include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/333-next-year-in-birobidzhan-stalins-siberian-zion\/\">Stalin&#8217;s proposed homeland for Russian Jews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/186-europe-if-the-nazis-had-won\/\">Europe, If the Nazis Had Won<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/66-the-world-in-george-orwells-1984\/\">The World in (George Orwell\u2019s) 1984<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/305-elleore-a-kingdom-12-minutes-ahead-of-copenhagen\/\">Elleore<\/a> &#8211; <q>occupies a special place among [Danish islands]: unpeopled for most of the year, and not part of Denmark when it is \u2013 that is, if you\u2019re partial to the semi-jocular sovereignty claims of micronations.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/strange-maps\/299-niam-niam-the-cannibal-map-of-the-world\/\">Cannibal Map of the World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prepare to lose a day or two learning obscure geography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given they have just pushed out a mega update it seems a good time to link to Strange Maps. A really interesting site, especially if like me, you are a huge nerd. There are all sorts of maps, from fantastical ones to real ones of countries that don&#8217;t exist and micro-nations which existed for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[19,64],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-random","tag-link","tag-maps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}