Dave Lovell spotted these crafty pencils with escape route maps inserted into the pencil barrel from WW2
“I was particularly interested in the Maps for POWs secreted inside pencils. I wonder whether this cunning plan, expertly implemented led to any successful escapes. Maps were essential to the war effort on all sides of the conflict. http://www.escape-maps.com/ and https://www.bl.uk/maps/articles/escape-and-evasion-maps-of-world-war-ii“
People are often saying that “the world is falling apart” but with this jigsaw, that literally is the case. My wife loves […]
Our friends at OpenCage Data regularly post features on the geographic quirks of a country. A while back the posted this little […]
Doug shared this superb urban map mural. “Mural on building showing local rivers. Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia”
Derick Rethans sent this pic. “This map in (on?) a bench describing the river it’s next to, is quite a joyful one” Joyful […]
