Memnison Journal

Another bit of Rittenhousia, about the beginnings of paper-making in America, circa 1688 - this is from the Historical Magazine, 1857.  Again, for the record.

I’ll sit down and go over the Presidents Thang in a day or so.  Right now, I’m busy fishing the big Digital Organization, to be followed up with more organizing tricks tomorrow.  So I’m Really Busy As Heck with that stuff. 
Meredith had a good deal from Sinterklaas, with lots of pepernoten / kruidnootjes and [...]

Longtime readers will recall that I’m a great fan of the Dutch-American author Hendrik Willem Van Loon, a taste that I got from my mom and her brother, my uncle.   There’s an online exhibit at the Ohio State University site of Van Loon’s illustrations (crude, but charming) for his best-known work, The Story of Mankind.   [...]

Museum exhibits:

Historical maps from Dutch cartographers
Mapping Arabia (from Aramco)
Historical maps of Macau (Library of Congress)
The David Rumsey collection (worldwide historical maps)
The Social Explorer (US Census maps 1940-2000)

Chinese Maps:

Shanghai, 1928
More pre-PRC China maps (heavy on Shanghai)
GIS: Chinese Historical GIS
GIS: Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (a little arcane for me, but maybe you can dig it)

German [...]

As some of you will note, Mr. Trivia and Mr. Map Enthusiast here likes to squirrel and roll around in all sorts of odd bits about odd bits of territory. Here’s a few recent adds:
The Frisian Islands, all of which seem to have hung on to their own gumbly dialects - such as [...]