Tag: maps

yellowjuice:

socialjust-ish:

questions-within-questions:

chirotus:

constant-instigator:

ermefinedining:

This map should be included in every history book.

Oh wow! I’ve been wanting this for ages!

This needs to be in every history book along with a map showing where those nations have been pushed to now.

And on the wall of every geography class room in North America.

A few things about this map:

  1. It isn’t looking at traditional territory. It’s looking at major linguistic groups. This has a rough correlation to some territorial boundaries, but it’s a lot more about geography than territory (look at how the rocky mountains divide up the languages on the west coast). So this wouldn’t be good to use to show ‘where those groups were pushed now’ because it doesn’t show the original territory.
  2. It’s very broad in its definitions. British Columbia has something like…. I think it’s between 12 and 30 distinct languages within it. Here it puts those as like… 3 – 5.
  3. It doesn’t use the nation’s ‘own’ names. It does sometimes, but there are a few here that are definitely the colonial/English translation of the actual name. Does that ‘really’ matter for a map like this? Eh. But if you want a map that’s hung up in every school and the whole ‘decolonize’ thing, might be good to use a map that uses the groups’ preferred name.

interesting

dendroica:

It’s Cold—And Hot—in North America : Image of the Day

It is frigid in much of Canada and the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Daily low-temperature records have dropped like snowflakes. New Year’s polar plunges have been canceled due to the cold, and many people in the Southeast are in a battle to keep their pipes from freezing.

In the Western U.S., Alaska, Europe, and Asia—not so much. December and January have been abnormally warm for most of the world. People in California have been worrying about wildfires in what should be the wet season, and Alaskans are ice skating in T-shirts.

This temperature anomaly map is based on data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. It shows land surface temperatures (LSTs) from December 26, 2017 to January 2, 2018, compared to the 2001–2010 average for the same eight-day period. Red colors depict areas that were hotter than average; blues were colder than average. White pixels were normal, and gray pixels did not have enough data, most likely due to excessive cloud cover. Note that it depicts land surface temperatures, not air temperatures. Land surface temperatures reflect how hot the surface of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location. They can sometimes be significantly hotter or cooler than air temperatures. (To learn more about LSTs and air temperatures, read: Where is the Hottest Place on Earth?)

The map of North America underscores one of the realities of weather—when a cold snap hits one region, warmth often bakes another one. A giant meander (or Rossby wave) in the jet stream is the common thread that connects the warm weather west of the Rockies with the chill east of them. As the crest of a Rossby wave—a ridge—pushed unusually far toward Alaska in December, it dragged warm tropical air with it. In response, the other side of the wave—a trough—slid deep into the eastern United States, bringing pulses of dense, cold Arctic air south with it. The Rocky Mountains have boxed in much of the coldest, densest air, serving as a barrier between the cold and warm air masses.

fallowsthorn:

millennial-review:

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Here’s the source for that census map, btw: https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1860_slave_distribution.pdf

Also shows a handful of other Southern states and the information that the map was “sold for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army,” which is nice and also probably why we still have a copy, because they made a whole bunch of them for fundraising.

Source: millennial-review