map of pangea with current international borders

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the good people at open culture

recently shared this map of pangea

with the present day country names.

if the band ever gets back together,

here’s who your nation’s neighbors would be.

-massimo pietrobon – mental floss magazine

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we cannot live only for ourselves.

a thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

~herman melville


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*this post is dedicated to the brave journalists in paris, recently lost to a senseless violent act, to journalists everywhere, to the freedom of speech and to peace.