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In 1402, Yi Hoe and Kwan Yun created a world map largely based from Chinese cartographers called the Gangnido map. It is currently one of the oldest surviving world maps from East Asia. [64] Another notable pre-modern map is the Cheonhado map developed in Korea in the 17th century. [65]
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Learning can be fun; but if you don’t want to take my word for it, I will let today’s list do the talking. Today, we’re focusing on geography and all sorts of maps that ought to bring some ...
Map of Norway in which the light was observed in the red and blue (Northern Norway). The Norwegian spiral anomaly of 2009 [1] (Norwegian: det spiralformede lysmønsteret, "the spiral-form light pattern", det spiralformede lysfenomenet, "the spiral-form light phenomenon") [2] was a light phenomenon that appeared in the night sky over Norway in the morning of 9 December 2009. [3]
The celestial phenomenon over the German city of Nuremberg on April 14, 1561, as printed in an illustrated news notice in the same month. An April 1561 broadsheet by Hans Glaser described a mass sighting of celestial phenomena or unidentified flying objects (UFO) above Nuremberg (then a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire).
And it's just one of many very strange but fascinating tidbits that can be found on the Weird Facts IG page. Over 1.2 million people follow the account for their daily dose of oddly interesting ...
Although pre-Columbian societies were certainly aware of the phenomenon, the indigenous names for it have been lost to history. [14] The capitalized term El Niño refers to the Christ Child, Jesus, because periodic warming in the Pacific near South America is usually noticed around Christmas. [15]
On January 25–26, 1938, the sky was lit up with an aurora borealis light storm, seen all across the world. The storm was identical to other storm-induced, low-latitude aurora borealis. The great aurora that was witnessed across Europe, the Americas, and Oceania had not been seen/documented in Europe since 1709, and in the Americas since 1888.