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In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
Atlas Obscura. Connelly, Erin (19 November 2019). "Discover the Last Chained Libraries in England". Europe Up Close. Driver, Christopher (19 November 1988). "World time forgot: the 13th-century world map up for sale is not the only neglected treasure of Hereford Cathedral". The Guardian. Johnson, Ben (2023). "The Hereford Mappa Mundi". Historic UK.
Atlas Obscura launched in 2009. The web page — the Obscura folks didn’t get back to us — features more than 28,300 places around the globe, about 11,000 of them in the U.S.
David A. Plotz [2] (born January 31, 1970) [3] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. [4] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, [5] succeeding Jacob Weisberg. [6]
A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the 7th-century scholar Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636) in his De Natura Rerum and later his Etymologiae (c. 625) [1]
In 2016, Carter obtained and published maps of the District of Columbia compiled during the Cold War by a military intelligence office in the USSR. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He noted in an interview that the Soviet maps were far more detailed than their publicly available U.S. counterparts, capturing sensitive information about military bases and the ...
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