Today's Link:
10 Charts About Sex, at OkTrends. This is
a very funny, even if it may not be true. One of my favorites:
Anyway, it features the map which they consider one of the very first infographics, depicting Napoleon's invasion and retreat from Russia, which I consider extremely cool:
as it says at the link:
Later remembered as "the map that made a nation cry", it depicts Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia in 1812. The wide tan swath shows his Grande Armée, almost half a million strong, marching East to Moscow; the black trickle shows the few who straggled back. It's an elegant fusion of geography, time, and temperature into a single statement of military disaster.
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