Marco Weigel
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🎓 Student, B.A. Modern History. 💡 Explore the past. Understand the future. 📍@TUDarmstadt // header by @TheoJones
Switzerland
Joined December 2009
An excellent model at the Lincoln Museum helps visualize the immense scale of a single Roman legion in formation... The model accurately represents over 5,000 legionaries, the standard strength of a full Roman legion during the Imperial period. Drawn up in tight, disciplined
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🚨 Our new #geopoliticalatlas is now live 🗺️ Visualising 🇬🇧 powerbase, #CRINK cooperation, and how 🇬🇧 can shape the world in line with its security interests Produced in partnership with the RNSSC ⚓ 🔗 Explore the full atlas: https://t.co/9IiupjYQv9
geostrategy.org.uk
James Rogers and Andrew Young offer this collection of visualisations that outline the United Kingdom’s global position and interests
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For all the emo kids (and adults) out there, here is a timeline of the major poetry movements:
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176 gorgeous & hi-res vintage labels from a Swedish cement company if anyone else is into that sort of thing https://t.co/RSVAvEhhlH
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Tonight's stunning misty last sunset of 2025 at Stonehenge🤩 Photo credit Nick Bull 🙏 Happy new year everyone 🥳 #newyearseve #NYE #sun #winter #stonehenge #colours #stones #landscapephotography #landscape #sunset #December
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@cardamomkiss Thank you for sharing! The map is called Wild World. It took me 3 years + was drawn with colour pencil + pen. The research alone was half the work, but it was the most incredible experience. You can check out prints + puzzles on my website here :)
antonthomasart.com
Explore the vast details of Anton Thomas's hand-drawn maps. Shop for prints & puzzles of Wild World, North America: Portrait of a Continent, & more. Dive into the wonders of cartography art! Shipping...
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Hanging out at home for the holidays? Turn some downtime into space time. Make a 2026 Moon Phases Calendar, and follow the lunar cycle all year long! 🌖 All you need is a printer, scissors, tape, and a brass fastener: https://t.co/8KF8EYtRm1
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
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1997 entdeckte man die ursprüngliche Jugendstilausmalung des Bahnhofs Dresden-Neustadt unter dicken Farbschichten wieder und stellte sie bis 2001, dem einhundertjährigen Jubiläum des Baus, originalgetreu wieder her. Gleichzeitig wurde das große transparente Hallendach eingebaut,
Der Bahnhof Dresden-Neustadt wurde 1901 eröffnet. Er ersetzte die beiden Vorgängerbahnhöfe, den Leipziger Bahnhof (1839) und den Schlesischen Bahnhof (1847). Der erste diente dann dem Güterverkehr, der zweite verschwand und wurde durch das neue große helle Gebäude ersetzt. Die
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The rare alignment of the three norths is leaving England. 🧭 On 13 December, true north, magnetic north and grid north stop aligning at Berwick-upon-Tweed, marking a major mapping milestone. Next landfall will be in Scotland in 2026: https://t.co/JrNybT7NOe
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This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered
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Most Americans don’t realize it, but many of our highways follow routes far older than the country itself. Originally corridors carved by geology, crafted by bison migrations, and turned into continental road systems by Indigenous nations. Let’s peel back the asphalt.🧵
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From an amoeba to a blue whale
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Here it is, the project that I have been working on for over a year: A heraldic map of Europe
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I sometimes regret that one of my biggest contributions to the world was a way for people to spend more time in front of a screen. But learning about stories like this reminds me that Netflix did contribute something real to the world. Florence Rendulic was a longtime Netflix
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did you know: you can turn your phone into a medieval manuscript
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Jupiter and its 4 Largest Moons glowing in the Night-sky. Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto on the left, Io on the right side. 🌌 📸: Luis Argerich
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