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- Former US President Bush condemns ‘brutal invasion of Iraq’ in public gaffe | World English News June 8, 2023
- Eisenhower Speech, Science and National Security,11/7/1957 June 8, 2023
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- Airpocalypse: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & Pollution Link to Climate Crisis June 8, 2023
- Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” Speech Origins and Significance June 8, 2023
- James K. Boyce, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts – Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) June 8, 2023
- Floating cities as an innovative response to climate change | DW Documentary June 7, 2023
- St. Helena – A remote island in the Atlantic | DW Documentary June 7, 2023
- Are climate doomers right? June 7, 2023
- Costs of War: the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars June 7, 2023
- The Heat: Consequences of U.S. Post-9/11 Wars June 7, 2023
- Costs of War June 7, 2023
- Portuguese Gold Coast – Wikipedia June 7, 2023
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- List of Dutch East India Company trading posts and settlements – Wikipedia June 7, 2023
- Template:Forts and fortresses of the Portuguese empire – Wikipedia June 7, 2023
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- Template:Gold Coast – Directory to Gold Coast Forts & Castles June 7, 2023
- Global Warming in the Pipeline: What the Science Says – Paul Beckwith June 7, 2023
- Introductory Background to James Hansen’s Brilliant New Paper: “Global Warming in the Pipeline” – Paul Beckwith June 7, 2023
- NYC’s air quality among world’s worst due to Canada wildfire smoke June 6, 2023
- Ecosystem Restoration at COP15 in Montreal June 6, 2023
- After THE OIL MACHINE: Kevin Anderson June 6, 2023
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- Dr Jennifer Francis: 2023 Climate Chaos, El Niño, Ocean Heatwaves, & Arctic Sea Ice Lows June 6, 2023
- Matters of Population June 6, 2023
- The carbon cycle is key to understanding climate change June 5, 2023
- Can we remove carbon from the atmosphere? June 5, 2023
- Charalee Graydon June 5, 2023
- Combined climate change indicators June 4, 2023
- Fossil Fuel Evil Is Ending the future June 4, 2023
- Stonehenge of the Americas | Digging For the Truth (S3, E9) | Full Episode June 4, 2023
- What are food standards and why do they matter? June 4, 2023
- How Lorraine Hansberry inspired countless Black and LGBTQ+ writers June 4, 2023
- E-book release: State of India’s Environment in Figures 2023 June 4, 2023
- 1930s HUNGARY TRAVELOGUE / EDUCATIONAL FILM GEOGRAPHY & NATURAL RESOURCES BUDAPEST XD52484 June 4, 2023
- Ecuador’s Big Gamble: The Country That Gave Up Oil | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary June 4, 2023
- Senegal News | Senegal Unrest Flares Again Over Opposition Leader | English News | News18 Exclusive June 4, 2023
- Why has opposition leader’s trial sparked unrest in Senegal? | Inside Story June 4, 2023
- Senegal unrest: 15 people have died in two days of violence June 4, 2023
- Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger – Scientific American June 4, 2023
- Deadly protests in Senegal kill at least nine June 4, 2023
- 1177 B.C. – The Collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations – Eric H. Cline June 3, 2023
- Eric Cline – The Collapse of Cities and Civilizations at the End of the Late Bronze Age June 3, 2023
- Elga Wasserman Portrait Unveiling June 3, 2023
- Former NRC Chief: Reactors Not a Climate Solution – Nuclear Power June 3, 2023
- Modern Marvels: Gold Mines (S6, E24) | Full Episode June 3, 2023
- Prof Lumumba delivers the Nelson Mandela memorial lecture, 17 July 2018 June 3, 2023
- Africa in the next 25 years will be recolonized – Prof. PLO Lumumba June 3, 2023
- Prof Lumumba: “There is a new scramble for Africa” || A discussion on foreign interference in Africa June 3, 2023
Daily Archives: August 6, 2022
Africa & Middle East Division, LOC | Damon Galgut, South African novelist and playwright, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize
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Waldseemuller’s Map of America – John Hessler | C-SPAN.org
May 17, 2013
Panelists talked about a map made in 1507 by German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller. It is considered one of the world’s rarest maps and believed to be the first map to name America. They discussed the history and unanswered questions surrounding Waldseemuller’s maps, and also spoke about the collection of Renaissance globe-maker and mathematician Johannes Schoner, who was the original owner of Waldseemuller’s maps. This program was part of an event hosted by the Library of Congress and the John Carter Brown Library.
See related:
- Africa & World Historical Cartography: Old Maps, New Technologies, New Questions & New Research Communitie
- Warping Waldseemuller: Computer Modeling and the Quest to Understand the 1507 and 1516 World Maps | Library of Congress
Library of Congress Officially Received 1507 Waldseemuller World Map | Library of Congress - The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas
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- How a 1507 German Map Became America’s Birth Certificate
- Exploring Waldseemuller’s World: Sources and Texts | Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Officially Received 1507 Waldseemuller World Map | Library of Congress
- Schöner Sammelband – Waldseemüller Maps – Exploring the Early Americas | Exhibitions – Library of Congress
- “Cosmographiae Introductio” by Martin Waldseemuller and Mathias Ringmann – Bookworm History
- El mapa Waldseemuller
- OLDEST MAP depicting America!!! 5 Feet Tall!
- Book TV: Toby Lester – The Fourth Part of the World
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The World of Ptolemy and the Birth of the Cartographic Atlas
Library of Congress – Jun 10, 2022
Lecture by Library of Congress curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection, John Hessler, Ptolemy and the Foundations of Western Cartography, including images of these rare atlases printed between 1475 and 1600 which have never been shown together as a complete group. Opening remarks by Associate Librarian of Congress, Robin Dale, and closing remarks by Mark Dimunation, Chief, Rare Book and Special Collections Divisions. For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10300
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Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale
Library of Congress – Feb 27, 2019
Chet Van Duzer discusses his new book on Henricus Martellus’ influential 1491 world map. Many texts on Martellus’ map are illegible due to fading and damage, making its exact place in Renaissance cartography impossible to determine. However, recent multispectral imaging of the map has rendered most of the previously illegible texts on the map legible. Van Duzer explained the process of multispectral imaging and how the results have enabled him to situate the Martellus map in late 15th- and early 16th-century cartography. For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feat…
See related:
- Seeing the World Anew: John W. Hessler, Chet Van Duzer
- Martin Waldseemuller’s Carta Marina: Its Originality and Diffusion | Chet Van Duzer
- 3 Chet Van Duzer – BAM Group February 5, 2022
- Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale
- Frames That Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches | Chet Van Duzer
as well as:
- The World in Maps, 1400-1600 | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Africa & World Historical Cartography: Old Maps, New Technologies, New Questions & New Research Communities
and - Early Days in African Historical Cartography ~ From the Portolan Charts to Printed Maps: Imagining and Imaging Africa in the Atlantic System
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