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How a humble subway map became an icon

There’s a dragon approaching. You can feel its hot breath billowing out of the dark, sooty-looking tunnels. Soon it will emerge and devour you. That was my first impression of the subway system in London, England. At its deepest levels, it’s like a medieval labyrinth. As the trains get close to the platforms where riders […]

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A Truly Historic Event

The years since the turnover to our current millennium have been filled with globally historic events. There have been other world-shaking events in the past, but with instantaneous news transmission, we now get to watch them play out as they transpire. It’s a sign of the charisma of the British monarchy that millions of people

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