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01/20/07 02:52 AM: History can teach us, perhaps
So I’m sort-of enjoying another 15 minutes of Internet fame, as an image I put together tonight has gone “viral” (kind of), and is approaching 1,000 views on flickr.
Some backstory, I found an atlas from 1927 at a used bookstore many years ago. I recently found it, and have been poking through it as a hobby. Tonight I decided to scan some of the images, including the spreads (I have to stitch them together in Photoshop).
That made me think, and I scanned the 1927 map of Asia. Things were quite a bit different back then. It made me think of our current conflicts in perspective. Deep down I know most of the countries we are “dealing” with didn’t exist 80 years ago, but the visuals really hit home.
So I wanted to preface those maps with some commentary, and since I put the images together, I feel I’m entitled to at least that.
Obviously large maps don’t fit a fixed-width blog layout, so I constructed a very basic HTML page. Without further ado.
A little perspective, the Middle East and Asia 80 years ago.
