From a flat Earth to Australia s inland sea : Map mistakes revealed
Australia had a vast inland sea, California was an island - along with Korea - and bizarre and terrifying sea creatures populated the oceans. Welcome to the cartography of yesteryear, when maps were informed not just by mathematics and exploration, but also by huge dollops of folklore and imaginative speculation - as fascinating book The Phantom Atlas, the Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps by Edward Brooke-Hitching reveals. His intriguing tome gathers together the wildest misbeliefs ever drawn on maps, revealing the world as it existed purely in the imaginations of our ancestors .
Edward Brooke III: A Brief Biography - 552 Words
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Rev Raphael Warnock s historic US Senate win broke more barriers than you may think
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When Rev. Raphael Warnock prevailed in the special election on Jan. 5, he was the first African American from Georgia to win a U.S. Senate seat, and the 11th African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
But as a political scientist who has studied African American candidates seeking statewide offices like governor or U.S. senator, I know that Warnock’s real victories were as an African American candidate who had no previous elected experience and won a Senate seat, and he became the first African American to defeat a sitting senator or governor. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, left, used debates to try to discredit her opponent, but Raphael Warnock effectively countered those efforts.