The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center has 200,000 historic maps and 5,000 atlases. Many are online in high resolution. You can explore the collection by location, subject, date, publisher, author and projection. They give virtual tours, select a map of the month and have a section called Maps in the News, where they profile Darfur and Iraq. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

South African cartoonist 'Zapiro' is featured on CNN's African Voices show. A few short videos give a very interesting insight into the world of political cartooning. picked by Ankabout 8 months ago

Socks and Barney is a daily political cartoon base on the imagined lives of Clinton's and Bush's pets. picked by coldbladed 2 years ago

Failing to elect late Vladimir Lenin as the president of USA, american far left excels in creating the least amusing web cartoon in the history of man picked by makri 3 years ago

A collection of rare maps of Africa, dating from 1530 to 1915, has been made available for free on the internet by Northwestern University in the US.
Link to Uni map collection picked by teaya21 3 years ago

An animated cartoon site with a Political
theme. picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

From antique maps showing sea serpents and hideous monsters devouring ships in the vast expanses of the ocean, to those showing what the world looked like in the distant, and not so distant, past. Maps have, of course, been with us in one form or another, for a long time. picked by Bingo 3 months ago

Google Maps map annotated with all the places Marco Polo visited during his travels to China and back. Click here for larger map picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

im not sure how common this site is but it has alot of great political cartoons about everything picked by dork 3 years ago

Quickcomic allows you to easily create, rate, and post your own insane scenarios using the characters of US and world politics. Many of these are actually quite creative.
(of course some have less than nice language) picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

The introduction of mapping applications such as Google Maps (undoubtedly the most popular example of all) and their subsequent widespread use around the world has resulted in an enormous amount of people taking up an interest in an interactive view of the world which previously was very difficult to obtain. There are millions of incredibly interesting sights to experience which, when living at gr... read full post picked by iamamaniac 5 months ago

How did your city look when it was first founded? How did it look 50 years ago? 100 years ago? Site offers tons of historical maps of many US cities. Also offers maps from all over the world some hundreds of years old. Quite interesting. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

Controversial Queenslander Pauline Hanson has kicked off her latest political campaign with a tirade against a Channel 7 journalist. But she’s not the first pollie to resort to screaming in the rough and tumble of politics. And her explosion pales next to the punches, chair throwing and b***h-slapping of some political forums.

These videos show just how violent politics can get. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" monikor, has died after a battle with brain cancer. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

A bride and groom were head ogre heels in love today after they got married dressed as Princess Fiona and Shrek.

Christine England and Keith Green spent three hours in make-up to walk down the aisle looking like their cartoon heroes. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

The physics that applies to cartoon characters.
Cartoon Law IX:
Everything falls faster than an anvil. picked by tundramonkey 3 years ago

To make Google Maps (even) better, Google have released a new API that means everyone on the Internet can make a contribution to Google Maps with text, shapes, photos and other stuff too. picked by TheStep 3 years ago

^^^ Very roughly translated title. Hilarious cartoon. Pic not (directly) related. picked by KingKoopa 2 years ago

Works of art in and of themselves, these ancient maps reveal a great deal more than the geographical knowledge of our ancestors. They tell stories of war and triumph, reveal myths and biases, and document modes of thought that have long been obsolete. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

A cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, with a rabid chimpanzee graced the pages of the New York Post on Wednesday. picked by suebe 9 months ago