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How did the world build its railway networks? And where did they vanish? 🗺️🚂
These interactive timeline maps track the growth, contraction, and evolution of global rail infrastructure in countries around the world.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-rise-and-fall-of-national-rail.html
They limited me to 1200 words. Editor cut the text of the Ashoka road safety standard. It reads:
“King Beloved of the Gods Priyadarsin speaks thus. On the roads banyan-trees were caused to be planted by me, in order that they might afford shade to cattle and men, and mango-groves were caused to be planted. And at intervals of eight kos wells were caused to be dug by me, and flights of steps for descending into the water were caused to be built.”
7th Major Pillar Edict of Ashoka
The French words ‘nord’ and ‘sud’ look a lot like English ‘north’ and ‘south’.
That’s not a coincidence: it’s because Old French borrowed these words from Old English ‘norþ’ and ‘sūþ’ – along with ‘est’ and ‘ouest’, which come from ‘ēast’ and ‘west’.
My new infographic tells you all about the fascinating theories about the history of ‘north’, ‘south’ and their cognates.
Next time: east and west.
> Above an Australian highway, a bridge reconnects wilderness for quolls, koalas and other animals
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/above-an-australian-highway-a-bridge-reconnects-wilderness-for-quolls-koalas-and-other-animals/
SYDNEY, Australia. At dusk on the edge of the bush in Australia’s Heathcote National Park, a spotted-tailed quoll lowers its tawny head to the ground, pink nose twitching. The dense forest, the scent of damp earth and eucalyptus leaf litter gives way, abruptly, to heat and a chemical tang. Ahead: open space. Noise. Light. A […]
"i don't hate u cuz your beautiful, i hate u cuz your taking my food!!!!"
this purple-bibbed whitetip is OVER the violet-tailed sylph hogging the flower...
vertical photo, i recommend u click...
#Birds #Birding #Hummingbirds #Biodiversity #Neotropics #BirdsOfMastodon #Photograph #BirdPhotography #Wildlife #Funny #Cute
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