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Was it the French language classroom? I had French classes in there, but there was no distinction between French and German classrooms. except for getting it through fundamentalists' heads that their beliefs don't have any more credible evidence than all of those competing ones. I believe therein l...

that there might be a debate concerning Islamic religious classes in Islamic schools, because of fears that students would be indoctrinated into intolerant beliefs is another. The debate was nothing to do with Islamic schools but rather whether Muslim children attending state schools should be allo...

there was only a map of the United States on the wall, not a map of the world. At least there was a map on the wall. I went to school in the UK, and I honestly don't remember ever having a map of the world or a map of the UK on the wall of any of the classrooms. I remember there being a map of Fran...

Welcome to the forum! I like your idea of a globe-to-globe mapping that anticipates the distortion caused by the globe-to-plane mapping! As you say, distortion of the landmasses is very low at the expense of distortion of the oceans, meaning the positional relations of the landmasses are messed up. ...

Very interesting. Since the Mercator part extends from 60 N to 60 S, it provides a way to treat the northern and southern hemispheres a little bit less inconsistently when implementing dchalker's interruption scheme while still avoiding cutting through any continents – a cylindrical projection betwe...

Nice catch, Pete! Corrected the image on the previous page, if anybody wants the corrected topo image. Not sure the exact "correct" way to fix the problem, but for the moment I've used a stretch/squish. Are you sure it's corrected? The Apian II and equirectangular sections now look like t...

It wouldn't need any, since its neighbor China would be turned into a non-nuclear democracy aligned with the United States. If they're a democracy, then they can choose what countries they want to align with. While most democracies are aligned with the US, the world's two largest democracies (exclu...

Russia could get to keep some of Siberia too - enough so Russia, including the Russians in Siberia, could survive, but not enough for Siberia's land and resources to enable Russia to be a major world power. If I were dictator of the world, I'd go for a global phase-out of fossil fuels to stop Siber...

I don't know how to search historical maps, but anybody seen anything like this? Elliptical top with cylindrical mid/bottom? The closest projection that I know is the Baker dinomic , which uses the Mercator between 45° N and 45° S. There's also Györffy A , where the middle section looks cylindrical...

I think this is what you were going for: