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Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the simply-cool dept.

e03179 writes "A friend of mine stumbled across this site from the US Library of Congress. The website allows users to view maps that go all the way back to the 1500's (like this one of America in 1562). The maps have been converted to digital form (SID format - viewer available here) but are viewable in .GIF form in your browser. I was able to look up my hometown during 1871 and see the church in which I'm getting married. Who thought the LOC could be so 31337?"

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  1. LOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. BLING BLING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I gotz da skillz to make da benjamins an dose pay da billz, yo. W3RD UP HOMECHICKEN!!

  3. Re:Ok Ok Ok!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes we can. They are all ignorant camel humpers. We only barely tolerate their unwashed stench becasue they have oil. Why we don't just kick their asses and take that shit I have no idea.

  4. MrSID viewer? by Quixote · · Score: 2, Troll

    The viewer requires registration. If a site requires registration to give out its "free" product, then I don't consider it 'free' anymore. Anyone have any other viewers for MrSID?

  5. Re:I'll tell you... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    he crashed his car cause of a damn asian punk chuckk...DAMN ASIANS

  6. America in the 1500's? by Dankling · · Score: 0, Troll

    like this one of America in 1562

    ehhh, anyone who knows their history knows that America didn't come into existence until 1700's.

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    Slash-for-Thought
  7. Re:Ok Ok Ok!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cant we just bomb all their holy sites and tell the Palestinians and Israelis both to go fuck themselves?

    Maybe then they'd get along. Yeah right.