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- An official atlas of North Korea (cartographerstale.com)
What I bring you today is a real gem that I have been searching for a long time and have finally managed to get my hands on a copy1. It is a collection of 672 maps found in the Great Korean Encyclopaedia2, North Korea’s reference encyclopaedia. More specifically, it is an electronic edition published on CD in the first decade of the 2000s.
- Beta Cancri (Wikipedia)
Beta Cancri (β Cancri, abbreviated Beta Cnc, β Cnc), also named Tarf /ˈtɑːrf/, is the brightest star in the zodiacal constellation of Cancer. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.5 and an absolute magnitude of −1.2. Based on parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, it is approximately 290 light-years distant from the Sun. An exoplanet, designated Beta Cancri b, is believed to be orbiting the star.