north: The direction towards the top of most maps, corresponding to the Earth's North Pole. northeast: The direction that is intermediate between north and east. east: The direction towards which the sun rises, opposite of west. sou...
Image of the entire Pakistan and Afghanistan map.$14.99 65-13904 1 sheet, folded $19.99 65-13904R 1 sheet, flat/rolled $36.99 65-13904L 1 sheet, laminatedPakistan, Afghanistan, and the Middle East map. National Geographic Maps. This finely detailed political map shows up-to-date country ...
David Rumsey has collected over 85,000 geo-referenced maps over the past thirty and more years, focused on very high-resolution scans of rare 16th- through 21st-century maps of the world. They are astonishing in their detail and resolution. Middle Eastern maps are in the Asia collection, wit...
During the Third Age, its forests, besides that of Mirkwood, were the largest in Middle-earth. In the latter part of the Third Age, the Dwarves settled the Blue Mountains again when Thráin II, his son Thorin Oakenshield and the Dwarven survivors of the Sack of Erebor moved from Dunland a...
Campbell1 & Adam Auton1 In humans, males have lower recombination rates than females over the majority of the genome, but the opposite is usually true near the telomeres. These broad-scale differences have been known for decades, yet little is known about differences at the fine scale. By ...
The maps of Beijing include the Beijing district map, the Beijing subway map, and the maps of some famous scenic spots, such as the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Great Wall.
Amariah Brigham’s (1798–1849) map shows the spread of cholera via the trade routes from India (1817) and China (1820) through the Middle East to Europe, Scandinavia, and Britain where it arrived in 1831. The American physician collected his data from other publications and presented his fi...
A very good source for German regional maps at the time of the French Revolution is Thomas Höckmann'sAtlas Deutschland, and in particular the section entitled:Historische Karten - Deutschland am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts/Historical maps - Germany at the end of the 18th century, which includes...
Middle East Protests: An animated map.{Slate} By Elizabeth Weingarten and Chris Wilson from Slate Magazine. This map depicts the tides of protests and government retaliations day by day, with info boxes and color coding. Updated through at least 3/21/11. ...
The report said the country will ensure "more pay for more work" and encourage people to "achieve prosperity through hard work." Efforts will be made to promote equality of opportunity, increase the incomes of low-income earners, and expand the size of the middle-income group, the report ...