EARTH -- 02 Apr 2013 -- While a high-pressure weather system brought warmer than normal temperatures to Greenland and northern Canada in March 2013, much of North America, Europe, and Asia shivered through weeks of unseasonably cool temperatures. The contrasting temperatures are no coincidence: the same unusual pressure pattern in the upper atmosphere caused both events -- Picture by Lightroom Photos/NASA
China, map, Yellow River, Mongolia, Pacific Ocean, Pekin Peking, Beijing, Chinese Empire, Japan, atlas, countries, Asia, East Asia, Eastern Asia, Victorian, empire, political, geography, orient, oriental, education, MSRW654
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The Chinese Empire and Japan. A double page spread from an 1872 atlas. The Yellow River (Hoang-Ho) is highlighted in blue across the centre of the map, while the printed names of Mongolia, Pekin (now Beijing) and the Pacific Ocean are ringed in red.
sc0075; map; South Western Asia & the Nile Valley; cartography; Rumania; Bulgaria; Egypt; Nubia; Anglo Egyptian Sudan; Abyssinia; Kenya; Uganda; Eritrea; Italian Somaliland; British Somaliland; Arabia; Palestine; Trans Jordan; Hadramut; Persia; Afghanistan; Baluchistan; Iraq; Syria; Oman; el Hasa; Asir Yemen; Kowett; Mesopotamia; Lebanon; French Mandate; Middle East; history; historical; Frank Gorny; Craigowl; sc0075
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from Phillips Atlas of the World, for The Bennett College,Sheffield, published circa 1925
1600s; Netherlands; Holland; Europe; map; maps; cartography; old; ancient; art; graphic; history; European; c17th; Johannes Janssoniussd; cartographers, cartography, atlas, geography, republic, Seven United Provinces, EU, Belgii Foederati Nova Descriptio,
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Map of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands drawn by Johannes Janssoniussd part of his atlas ''Belgii Foederati Nova Descriptio'' which was published in Amsterdam in 1658 -- Picture by Lightroom Photos
