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The Grand Lisboa Hotel in Macau by Paul Tsui, 2018 (left) and the same view at night by unknown (right)
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willigula · 20 days
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Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey. Photograph by Daniel Ibanez, 2024
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The Tortoise Trainer by Osman Hamdi Bey, 1906
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Meeting of the Atlantic & Pacific, The Kiss of the Oceans 1915 a map celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, by C. A. de Lisle Holland (1914)
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Flying South by Clara Scintilla, 2023
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willigula · 8 months
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"The gay Scene was Fairy-Land, and Cheſter Lilliput."
Thomas Baldwin created the world's first map based on direct aerial observation in his balloon exploration book Airopaidia, 1785
(the entire book may be viewed at Internet Archive)
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Zoogeographical Educational Map of the USSR by N.M. Buchunov, 1928
(via US Library of Congress)
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Through Pathless Skies to the North Pole mural by N.C. Wyeth for National Geographic, 1928
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willigula · 9 months
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Nature in Descending Regions by Levi Walter Yaggy, 1893
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Illustrations for They Might Be Giants by Tony Millionaire, 1999
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The Emperor Sailing, from The Story of the Emperor of China
1716/22
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After a design by Guy-Louis Vernansal (French, 1648–1729) and others
Woven at the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais under the direction of Pierre and Etienne Filleul (codirectors, 1711–22)
France, Beauvais
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Seaman with two esteemed shipmates, ca. 1910. Source.
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Orion Nebula, taken by the Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), 2023
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willigula · 11 months
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A birds-eye map of Havana, 1850
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willigula · 1 year
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Pictorial map of the events in the movie The Thief of Baghdad (1940)
(via Greenbriar Picture Shows)
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Pike Place Market in the rain, 2023
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