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Conventional historical maps usually show only one point in time, but TIME's R. M. Chapin Jr. managed to encompass broad spans of time in his maps and yet keep them easily readable. His Roman map, for instance, ranges from the time of the Punic Wars through Constantine, and his Islam map from Mohammed to the last days of the Ottoman Empire...
...ground rules, the major issues, how platforms are hammered together, and, in some footnotes to U.S. political history, recalls such all-but-forgotten presidential candidates as New York's Democratic Governor Horatio Seymour, who became known in 1868 as "The Great Decliner." Interspersed are ballot score cards, a map showing how the states voted in 1952, and pictures of the potential kingmakers...
...border, snaking across an area seldom explored and inadequately mapped, has been in dispute ever since the British seized Upper Burma in 1885. On a variety of dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their map...
...States (see map). In some places, Chinese outposts were reported 60 miles within Burma...
...week's end Dr. Bundesen was running out of pins for his map...