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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


{{Better Than News/December 2}}
{{Better Than News/December 2}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/December 2}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/December 2}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


{{Are You Sure/December 2}}
{{Are You Sure/December 2}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
{{Selected anniversaries/December 2}}


== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/December 2}}
{{Daily Favorites/December 2}}

Revision as of 15:26, 17 July 2023


Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) created a world map (1569) based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines, and that this principle is employed in nautical charts to this day?

Topic of the Day

Pirates