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In British English It's roofs - some dictionaries accept rooves as an alternative, but it does look and sound silly.
I was looking up reference material on Chateau de Chenonceaux and Chateau de Fontainebleau because I wanted to use them as base images for some sketch up work to ultimately use as a brush when I found this:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bi...178/2.70004/17
This really gave me some insight into trees, farms, roofs, and general layouts. When I got to the Eiffel Tower I took a trip downstream (or was it upstream) to get some insight into riverbanks. By the way, why is it roofs and not rooves like it is with hoof/hooves?
Anywho, ciao 4 now
In British English It's roofs - some dictionaries accept rooves as an alternative, but it does look and sound silly.
I don't know if I should link this or not- it's the alt. history forum's blank map collection. If any of the other guys see this and object, I'll certainly take it down.
In the meanwhile: http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/dok..._map_directory
Also the basic resources index has a lot of other links to map sites.
A few hunderd Icelandic Maps
Digitised maps from the National and University Library of Iceland.
EDIT: English Link is in the top right corner.
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All antique maps of Iceland (older than 1900) that are in the collections of the National and University Library of Iceland and the Central Bank of Iceland have been converted to a digital format and are accessible here. A short historical description in Icelandic and English is available for most of the maps. They are based on the book Kortasaga Ķslands (A history of cartography of Iceland) by Haraldur Siguršsson.
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Gorkamorka
Those are cool Gorka, thanks.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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World Digital Library
This is a very slick site and they seem to be digitizing a lot of documents (not just maps) from all over the world.
http://www.wdl.org/en/
The map viewing interface is all fancy but the maps are really good and well organized. You can download them as tifs.
Its well worth a look.
Here's a selection of just maps.
http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery?ql=eng&ty=Maps
Sigurd
Last edited by Sigurd; 04-22-2009 at 03:06 PM.
Dollhouse Syndrome = The temptation to turn a map into a picture, obscuring the goal of the image with the appeal of cute, or simply available, parts. Maps have clarity through simplification.
--- Sigurd
Because English, be it American or British, it one of the most stupid and contradictory languages ever developed.Originally Posted by Ascension
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...
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Of all of the other more logical and easy languages in the world we could have chosen, as a 'world language' we got English. History can be cruel. Reminds me of Geoge Bernard Shaw's fish which he said should be spelled 'ghoti' "gh" as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation".Because English, be it American or British, it one of the most stupid and contradictory languages ever developed.
I hate this language, has many TH ¬¬
joke.
the same with the Portuguese, for example: In Portugal queue is said "Bicha", but in Brazil we say "fila" because here "Bicha" means homosexual.
Last edited by joćo paulo; 04-24-2009 at 02:59 PM.
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