[Marguerite]

"“the world as it is, not as people would like it to be"

That's how V.Putin sees it: Imperial Russia, under Catherine the Great's rule (18th century):

[SoFloFreeper]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3134326/posts

Is a thread from a couple days ago....links to an animated map showing most of the border changes in Europe from the last 950 years or so....fascinating.

[entropy12]

I love to see historical maps such as this.

[Genoa]

And Alaska, don't forget Alaska.