Now in its 32nd printing, Fonstad’s Atlas Of Middle-earth featured 182 hand-drawn maps and included diagrams of linguistic evolution and tables outlining the lengths of rivers and mountain ranges.

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Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index ...

January 30, 2025 • Three more Israeli and five Thai hostages have been released by Palestinian militants from captivity and returned to Israel, after being held for more than 15 months in Gaza.

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A car bomb in northern Syria’s Manbij killed at least 18 women and one man, most of them agricultural workers. The Rapid Support Forces are waging all-out war to conquer the state capital and ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map. Use the timeline ...

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