The court said political map-makers cannot use race as the principal consideration in drawing congressional district boundary lines, but also agreed that using race as one factor could be constitutional.

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But of course the truth is this story began centuries ago, when horsemen descended to the plains from a lost kingdom called Futa Djallon, long before Europe's map makers turned their minds to the niggling problem of how to fill those blank spaces.

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Their free product is reducing revenues for high tech map makers which reduces the availability of these products and services.

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Europe's map makers may have had an inkling of the Americas long before Columbus's voyage in 1492.

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Medieval Europe's map makers did not suppose that they knew the exact co-ordinates of Paradise, but they wanted to show that it was indeed on Earth, as holy writ and the church declared.

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Women film-makers have already performed the considerable feat of putting Iranian cinema on the world map while trying to portray women's relationship with Iran and its Islamic revolution.

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