DEEP in the jungles of Myanmar there is a camp stocked with guns, maps and medical supplies.
The V&A exhibition displays many of these objects of European desire as well as the western forms of art and technology - clocks, guns, maps, lenses - adopted by Asians during the 300 years when economic and cultural globalisation wasn't the overwhelming phenomenon it later became under the aegis of European imperialism.
To the Editor: Re "Invasion of the Data Snatchers," by Bill Keller (column, Jan . 14, and "Guns, Maps and Data That Disturb," by David Carr (The Media Equation column, Jan . 14: Lost in the debate about the appropriateness of The Journal News' publishing an interactive map of handgun permits in Rockland and Westchester Counties is a defense of my parental right to protect my children from harm.
Led by the Urban Park Rangers, a visit to concrete bunkers dating to before the Civil War that once contained artillery guns and map rooms.
There are manuals on dealing with gas attack, on machine-gunning, map-reading, wiring and the use of Lewis guns.
Visit Slate.com to see an interactive gun deaths map and to read more information about the tally.
But this is not the first time that research using sound-producing "air guns" to map the ocean floor has put the two groups in conflict.
The group soon learned that the Maurice Ewing, a research vessel owned by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, was nearby, using sound pulses created by air guns to map the margins of the continental plate.
The federal government acknowledges that its plan to use powerful air guns to map oil deposits on the Atlantic seafloor would kill or injure 138,000 dolphins and whales and create 13.5 million instances of harm to marine mammals -- all to find oil that we should leave in the ground anyway if we're to meet our climate change goals.
While you don't necessarily have to use the guns the map is designed for, newbies are encouraged to do so.
