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More hoard-brooding!
So this is what I pulled out of McKeldin today:
1. A brittle and yellowed map from 1970 that was in an alphabet I didn't recognize and of a country I couldn't identify. So I had to bring it home.
Omniglot.com helped me figure it out: it's a map of "Hayastan" - Armenia!
Wow, Armenian sure is pretty. I think I'm keeping this one for myself unless someone else has a stronger reason to want it than "Wow, Armenian sure is pretty!"
2. A slightly less brittle map from 1970 in Russian. I wasn't sure what it was of, but my cyrillic's still good enough to know that it was printed in MOSKVA and it was a map of a "Something SSR", so hey.
Discovering that it was Gruzinskar SSR didn't help much, nor did finding out it had a shoreline on Tjernoe More. Luckily, it's hard to mess up Tbilisi.
So, one Soviet map of Georgia.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stellar_dust and antiscian can fight over it.
3. Der Naturschutzpark Lüneburger Heide und angrenzende Landschaftsschutzgebiete.
God, I love German.
Unfortunately, Mom's German is at least as rudimentary as mine. However, it does have a whole bunch of Hügelgräbers marked on it, and the symbols for them look like little menhirs. Google images says that these are hugelgrabers.
Sostellar_dust, it's yours if you want it. It appears to be some kind of cultural/ archeological map of the Stuttgart vicinity.
4. An old archeological/tourist map of Old Damascus. Unfortunately, I didn't realize till I got it home that somebody had cut it up already, so it's probably going to be wrapping paper unless claimed.
5. Carte de la Nouvelle Calédonia voies de communication terrestres et maritimes.
I get that it's a map of New Caledonia, bit confused by the terrestrial and maritime communication stuff though - it marks mostly roads and boat routes. Dated 1957. Interested?
6. Carte de Arles, France (1957)
I didn't realize till I picked this up, but it's actually a standard topographic map.stellar_dust can have it, but I may need to stare at it and drool about WWI flying aces first. :P
7. An undated USSR - era Rand McNally Imperial Map of Europe. The presence of the Saar as an autonomous nation dates it between 1947 and 1956. Any takers?
8. A 1969 map of Poland, in Polish, of camping sites, with charts of amenities, which would be very awesome if one were, say, a flower-child hitchhiking across Eastern Europe.
9. Another 1969 map of Poland, in Polish. Nothing else very interesting with this one, though. I have no idea why I picked it up.
10. A topographic map, in Icelandic, of the Miðnorðerland quadrangle. Because Icelandic! I have a copy of the Kalevala in Latin that I keep meaning to plow my way through some year...
11. 1967 middle east briefing map, US Army Corps of Engineers.
12. A Rand McNally World Portrait Map (physical), undated, but it has both Rhodesia and South-West Africa, so: 1967-1968
13, 14, 15: A quad-lingual tourist map of Ostschwiez, a quad-lingual tourist map of Bruxelles (both undated but early-60s-ish); very ugly 1988 tourist map of Paris, in French
16, 17: FAA VFR terminal area charts of New Orleans (2004) and New York(2000).
18, 19: IFR enroute low altitude charts of the Gulf Coast (2004) and the East Coast (2006).
20: IFR High Altitude chart of East Coast and points north (2006)
21: New Orleans regional aeronautical chart (2004)
22, 23: NOAA Intracoastal waterway navigational charts of Waveland to Catahoula Bay (Louisiana, 2003) and Little Egg Harbor to Cape May (NJ, 2003)
24: USAF Operational Navigation Charts of the Orinoco Delta and the Himalayas (1964)
See, I restrained myself! Only 25! And only 8 different languages! Actually, the evening's detective work was probably enough fun to be worth what I paid for them. Anybody sees something they must have, speak up and e-mail me your mailing address! The fun is in the finding as much as the having.
(Actually, I need to go clear out my maps and posters collection anyway, so I may do another post with offers sometime before next week.)
1. A brittle and yellowed map from 1970 that was in an alphabet I didn't recognize and of a country I couldn't identify. So I had to bring it home.
Omniglot.com helped me figure it out: it's a map of "Hayastan" - Armenia!
Wow, Armenian sure is pretty. I think I'm keeping this one for myself unless someone else has a stronger reason to want it than "Wow, Armenian sure is pretty!"
2. A slightly less brittle map from 1970 in Russian. I wasn't sure what it was of, but my cyrillic's still good enough to know that it was printed in MOSKVA and it was a map of a "Something SSR", so hey.
Discovering that it was Gruzinskar SSR didn't help much, nor did finding out it had a shoreline on Tjernoe More. Luckily, it's hard to mess up Tbilisi.
So, one Soviet map of Georgia.
stellar_dust and antiscian can fight over it.3. Der Naturschutzpark Lüneburger Heide und angrenzende Landschaftsschutzgebiete.
God, I love German.
Unfortunately, Mom's German is at least as rudimentary as mine. However, it does have a whole bunch of Hügelgräbers marked on it, and the symbols for them look like little menhirs. Google images says that these are hugelgrabers.
So
stellar_dust, it's yours if you want it. It appears to be some kind of cultural/ archeological map of the Stuttgart vicinity.4. An old archeological/tourist map of Old Damascus. Unfortunately, I didn't realize till I got it home that somebody had cut it up already, so it's probably going to be wrapping paper unless claimed.
5. Carte de la Nouvelle Calédonia voies de communication terrestres et maritimes.
I get that it's a map of New Caledonia, bit confused by the terrestrial and maritime communication stuff though - it marks mostly roads and boat routes. Dated 1957. Interested?
6. Carte de Arles, France (1957)
I didn't realize till I picked this up, but it's actually a standard topographic map.
stellar_dust can have it, but I may need to stare at it and drool about WWI flying aces first. :P7. An undated USSR - era Rand McNally Imperial Map of Europe. The presence of the Saar as an autonomous nation dates it between 1947 and 1956. Any takers?
8. A 1969 map of Poland, in Polish, of camping sites, with charts of amenities, which would be very awesome if one were, say, a flower-child hitchhiking across Eastern Europe.
9. Another 1969 map of Poland, in Polish. Nothing else very interesting with this one, though. I have no idea why I picked it up.
10. A topographic map, in Icelandic, of the Miðnorðerland quadrangle. Because Icelandic! I have a copy of the Kalevala in Latin that I keep meaning to plow my way through some year...
11. 1967 middle east briefing map, US Army Corps of Engineers.
12. A Rand McNally World Portrait Map (physical), undated, but it has both Rhodesia and South-West Africa, so: 1967-1968
13, 14, 15: A quad-lingual tourist map of Ostschwiez, a quad-lingual tourist map of Bruxelles (both undated but early-60s-ish); very ugly 1988 tourist map of Paris, in French
16, 17: FAA VFR terminal area charts of New Orleans (2004) and New York(2000).
18, 19: IFR enroute low altitude charts of the Gulf Coast (2004) and the East Coast (2006).
20: IFR High Altitude chart of East Coast and points north (2006)
21: New Orleans regional aeronautical chart (2004)
22, 23: NOAA Intracoastal waterway navigational charts of Waveland to Catahoula Bay (Louisiana, 2003) and Little Egg Harbor to Cape May (NJ, 2003)
24: USAF Operational Navigation Charts of the Orinoco Delta and the Himalayas (1964)
See, I restrained myself! Only 25! And only 8 different languages! Actually, the evening's detective work was probably enough fun to be worth what I paid for them. Anybody sees something they must have, speak up and e-mail me your mailing address! The fun is in the finding as much as the having.
(Actually, I need to go clear out my maps and posters collection anyway, so I may do another post with offers sometime before next week.)
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(That's #8 she wanted, by the way. And I wouldn't mind having #6, unless
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And yay, someone to take the Polish ones!
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(Are you helping me drive the kitties home?)
(Are you going to the library job fair tomorrow?)
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(...Maybe. Possibly.)
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(DO IT!)
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(:P)
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(You didn't go, did you. BOOOO. But don't worry, you can still submit an application!)
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(But I *drove* all the way to Hyattsville today (the MARC lines being down after the storm) and I'd forgotten just how horrible is rush hour traffic.)
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(Oh! Good! Yay for you! Did you get hired??)