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 2 years ago

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alternately theres HowStuffWorks on time travel picked by camro77 2 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 2 years 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 month ago

Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the future, in a four dimensional world consisting of three dimensions of space and one of time. Instead, Roger Highfield envisages the passage of history as curves embedded in a six dimensionals, with four of space and two of time. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

According to Professor Paul Davies "Scientists have no doubt whatever that it is possible to build a time machine to visit the future". Since the publication of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, few, if any, scientists would dispute that time travel to the future is perfectly possible. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

Two photographs of the same person from different periods of time are spliced together. Very interesting results. picked by queenofhearts 1 year ago

Sometimes they swing, sometimes they miss. The best, and worst Time covers reveal how we looked at news and ourselves in peacetime, war, depression and boom. picked by mobase 7 months ago

It involves something called 'metaphysics', and you don't need a flux capacitor. picked by TheStep 2 years ago

This is a video with several time lapse clips set to a nice background tune. picked by shredtone 2 years ago

Don't burn those bridges! picked by suebe 2 years ago

I'm not exactly sure what to make of this, but if the facts are correct, then this could eventually change the world. picked by Mershaullk 2 years ago

People who procrastinate tend to be less healthy, less wealthy and less happy. picked by civicracer18c1 2 years ago

A couple have photographed themselves and their children once a year since 1976. The aging process is fascinating and kind of sad at the same time. picked by doggylives 7 months 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 2 years ago

This animal molested 2 and 4 year old little boys. Now he's gonna be somebody's girlfriend. The judge got this one right! picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago