Anna's Hummingbird is one of the top species on BirdWeather
"BirdWeather is a visualization platform that... is continuously listening to over 200 active audio stations around the world and is actively plotting their results in a user-friendly map interface..." jessamyn posted about the birbs, and it is super cool.
paduasoy has posted the London Medieval Murder Map to scratch your 14th-century murders-most-foul demographics itch
hummingbird by watts_photos (cc by)
spamandkimchi posts about the hummingbird's summer of gorging.
All roads lead to Rome series by Nick Kenrick. (cc by)
But what's The Peutinger Map? Also known as Tabula Peutingeriana, it is a Medieval copy of highly stylized 4th Century map of the Roman road network, extending to India.
Kattullus invites us to explore the roads leading to Rome via "The Peutinger Map Reconsidered" with a variety of ways to view this ancient artifact, including overlays and lists of geographical features, while BWA offers What Latin Sounded Like and How We Know, and other linguistic treats from Nativlang.
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