Those damn Brits are sneaky and underhanded. :p:

A friend of mine used to have a Russian map of the Isle of Arran on her wall ...

As something of a map junkie, and having more than a passing interest in the Cold War, I'm looking forward to a book about Soviet military mapping of the USA and UK to be published next year.

Several examples are included on the website and are of quite startling accuracy.

It makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.

I've got a small cold war era Soviet atlas of the world. It's weird seeing your hometown written in Cyrillic.

It was easy for the commies to map the US, just buy detailed maps from a number of map companies, pick up maps at the gas station and subscribe to National Geographic. The phone book would give addresses of any government stuff, then a couple of Soviet diplomats or tourists could fact check and settle map conflicts.

I see what happened and why, but WTF?

No need to protect the real thing if we've got a perfectly good aquarium exhibit.

My windows are open on December 13th.

And I'm going out in short sleeves.

He said thankfully. :D

I should have worn shorts.

73 here today.

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That's a lot of Pooh.

They want that Honey. ;)

Where's the panda?

in the cop car, or, as it's sometimes called, the black and white.