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Satirical (Persuasive) Maps
Most certainly you, and I, know what maps are. But just to be perfectly clear, here is the primary meaning of the term (definition) from Dictionary.com: […] a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation […] So if that is “what a map is” then what is a satirical or persuasive map? It should come as little surprise that there is a class of Maps (most generally known as Satirical or Persuasive Maps). These reasonably rare and unique maps…
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Recent Mennonite Record Discovery
If like me you are always in search of new Prussian Mennonite records, my recent discovery of Mennonite Church records located in Berlin may be of interest. The records are I stumbled upon are located in the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin (The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage). The archives offer online (Free) access to the Kirchenbücher von Mennonitengemeinden (Church Books of the Mennonite Communities); they cover the years 1661 – 1905. The communities included in this archive are those Mennonite Communities formerly in Königsberg, Markushof, Montau und Gruppe, Thiensdorf. All of these communities were ethnically cleansed of Mennonites following WW2 by the Soviets and their allies;…
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