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Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible.***Having devoted our July 4 newsletter to maps of America, I had to wait till today for my second favorite Independence Day topic: an extended rant about monarchy. Thankfully, the subject only gets more timely with time. Waiting an extra two weeks to write about this particular institution just makes it several centuries
