Geography

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2012-05-23 Geography - Spider web like drawings on old maps:

Hallo Remus,    The radiating grids on old maps usually show the points of the compass or routes between major cities. In the image you show, each major web has 32 points of the compas;  north, south,

2012-05-15 Geography - What features of the ocean floor does center cut stand for?:

Hi Carl,    There is a plate tectonic lab in geology that looks at the sea floor and the spreading of the ocean plates at the plate boundaries.   As the magma wells up from the mantle, the ocean floor

2012-05-06 Flags - Maybe Burial Flag:

Mare Island was (is?) a US Navy shipyard somewhere in San Francisco Bay. The flag is doubtless from a ship that was fitted there and saw action in the Pacific. It's not a burial flag. Unless you know which

2012-04-30 Geography - Shape of the Planets:

The planets are a collection af gas and dust. Just like a water-drop, the mass assumes the shape of a sphere due to cohesion of the material and gravitational forces toward the much denser center, usually

2012-04-29 Flags - unusual 45-star flag:

Hi, Frank.    This is a son-in-service banner.  The practice of displaying a son-in-service banner became popular during WWI and was continued or even increased during WWII.  Families would display them