Tag: Germany (country, Europe)*
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Effect of Government Response on Covid-19 Infections and Deaths in Germany and the United States
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M099 Creator: Gina Romanazzi ’22 Digital Media Studies & Music These two sets of maps show the development of Covid-19 infections and deaths across a timespan of seven months in two countries, the United States and Germany, respectively. For the purpose of direct comparison, numbers of infections and deaths are set in…
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Deportation to Extermination Camps by Rail in Western and Central Europe – 1942
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M095 Creator: Jasper Lemberg ’21 Data Science By 1942, the European rail system was a dense forest of lines that reached just about everywhere in the continent. Germany was well aware of this and used it as often as possible during World War II, including during the Holocaust. To do this, they…
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The Berlin-Baghdad Railroad 1899-1940
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M092 Creator: Mark Mychajuk ’20 International Relations Designed and largely built by Imperial Germany prior to World War 1, the Berlin-Baghdad Railroad was an act of Imperialism. Germany hoped to gain access to Middle Eastern oil in the Ottoman Empire and new routes of attack on the colonial possessions of Britain and…
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Foreign Built Railways in China
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M077 Creator: Andrew Lee ’19 Chemistry At the start of the 1900s, there was a scramble to build railroads in imperial China by the major European powers to earn money, gain provisional control, and extract riches from the surrounding areas. This model proved incredibly successful for the British and Germans, with their…
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Luxembourg in the Belt and Road Initiative – A Gateway to Western Europe
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M041 Creator: Yixin Cao ’19 Financial Economics In March 2019, Luxembourg signed memorandums on joining the Belt and Road Initiative. By the time of this map, Luxembourg and China haven’t announced any investment in infrastructure as the Belt and Road Initiative in other countries normally focuses on. Instead, institutions in the two…
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Mapping British Wine Imports in 1790 and 1869
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M001 Creator: Joseph Evan Gray ’18 Urban Planning Wine filled the amphoras, bowls, and glasses of the greatest empire of the old world. The harsh climate of Britain left the country unable to produce much wine of its own. British wine merchants prospered as the demand for wine surged in the isles…