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The Economist's cartogram with the observers about to fall from a crumbling cliff echoes a famous story from Greek history concerning the women of Souli. Here is the story from Wikipedia: "During the Souliote War<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souliote_War_%281803%29>in December 1803, the Souliotes began evacuating Souli after their defeat by the forces of the local Ottoman-Albanian ruler, Ali Pasha<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Pasha> .[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_Zalongo#cite_note-2> During the evacuation, a small group of Souliot women and their children were trapped by Ali's troops in the mountains of Zalongo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalongo>in Epirus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epirus>.[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_Zalongo#cite_note-3>In order to avoid capture and enslavement, the women threw first their children and then themselves off a steep cliff, committing suicide.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_Zalongo#cite_note-4>According to the legend, they jumped down the precipice one after the other. [6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_Zalongo#cite_note-5> while singing and dancing." Will the story be repeated, with the E.U. technocrats replacing the troops of Ali Pasha and the Greeks choosing economic suicide rather than submit? > > > http://www.economist.com/node/21542824 > > The image of the map of Greece and its islands as a fraying, crumbling > cliff edge has become popular forobvious reasons sinnce 2007 - recent > version in The Economist, URL above. This one also makes Italy and even > Spain appear to crumble too. But was this image used before, perhaps in > earlier economic crises? What other maps have been used as crumbling cliff > edges? Turn the UK upside down and the N W of Scotland could be used this > way, maybe the Canadian Arctic archipelago,or southern Chile. And cities > if we map all the peri-urban areas at a fine enough resolution also have > faryed edges, although cities can look more like high magnification photos > of metastasising cancer cells. > > Dr Hillary Shaw > School of Business, Management and Marketing > Harper Adams University College > Newport > Shropshire > TF10 8NB > > _______________________________________________ > MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography > hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of > Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > > Maphist mailing list > Maphist@geo.uu.nl > http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist > -- J. L. Berggren Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr. Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 phone: 604-936-2268 fax: 604-936-2168 website: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~berggren/
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