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How about light moving through cables or tubes? How about an 18th-century-style map of the world? That’s how Martin Vargic sees it. Vargic, who has been creating maps since age 11, spent about ...
To Martin Vargic, it’s neither: It’s an 18th-century-style map that looks like something out of the golden age of cartography, only depicting the world’s 3,000 most heavily trafficked ...
Shrouded in mist and myth, Plummpton is a settlement that refuses to die quietly, despite being erased from modern maps.
Auction house Bonhams will present what it’s calling “the most important 18th century map of California” during an auction on Oct. 25. The original manuscript map of coastal California is ...
In a statement shared with SFGATE the auctioneers characterize the item as "the most important 18th century map of California." As part of the historic Portola expedition — the first time ...
June Koehn, 75, has spent half her life investigating the route of the Great Wagon Road, an 18th century settlement route, in North Carolina. And two years ago, when she found a map from 1711 ...
A European map from the 18th century recognizes Dokdo Island as Korean territory. Dokdo Museum Seoul at the Northeast Asian History Foundation in Seoul on Nov. 26 said it chose the Italian version of ...