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An Amusing Yet Informative Song About Locating the Squarest Country in the World
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men performed a rather amusing and quite informative song that helped them answer a viewer’s question…

Determining How Many Continents Are on Earth
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men use their sharp humor to find the logic in determining the number of continents on…

A Humorous Look at the Jumbled History of Antarctica
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men take a humorous look at the history of Antartica, who actually discovered it, the questionable…

How to Declare a New Nation Anywhere in the World
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men take a rather dry look at the history of country declaration. The humorous pair look…

The Origins of the Word ‘America’
British comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men humorously dug into the origins of the word “America”, how the word came about,…

How the Issue of Longitude at Sea Was Solved With the Newly Invented Pocket Watch in the 1770s
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper-Jones of Map Men quite appropriately explain the history of maps, focusing on latitude and longitude, the latter of…

What the World Might Look Like in 250 Million Years
Comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper Jones of Map Men take a long-reaching look at what the current continents may look like in approximately…

Why the Names of British Locations Often Sound Different From The Way They Are Spelled
In a tongue-twisting episode of Map Men, comedians Jay Foreman (previously) and Mark Cooper Jones spell out the history of British location names that don’t…

How Political Satire Was Expressed With Monstrous Animals, Creatures, and Men on Serio-Comic Maps
Photographer and filmmaker Richard Tilney-Bassett created a fascinating documentary that charts the use of cartography as a vehicle for political satire. The cartoonists and illustrators…