In the wonderful spirit of today, Inauguration Day, and the challenge before us to live and be the change and hope we want to see in the world, I thought I would provide a link to one of my favorite blogs to watch called "Strange Maps" and its entry for January 17, 2009.
The purpose of this blog is to share with everyone a collection of fun, cool, odd and crazy maps of all sorts from all over. People submit maps, explain their origin and the guy who hosts the page posts them and gives a background story as well as a link to the original location of the map (if applicable). I like to check it out for fun and interesting views on history. Often the maps are older and we can see how certain people saw their world and their future based on how they drew their maps. For example: this one made by Yugoslavia during the Cold War depicting a collapsing US or this one mapping the shipping cycle of a package around the world to make a portrait of a man or this one showing in a really cool way where news tends to break in the US or this one: the first GPS invented in the 1920s, you have to check it out!
So, today while looking at the blog, I found this map of all the state mottos and their explanations. Now, how cool is that! If you understand a motto to often symbolize your marching orders well then look at your state and see what are yours! Its kind of fun. For all you Oklahomans out there - do you agree with our motto? I know my dad's grandfather sure did! Dad probably would too!
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