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Extent of LA fires laid bare for Edinburgh locals as map shows blazes superimposed over Scots capital

David Bale3 weeks ago04 mins

THE full extent of the Los Angeles fires has been laid bare for Scots as a map shows the blazes superimposed over Edinburgh. The fires in LA began on 7 January and have been raging ever since, with the affected areas being hastily evacuated. A total of 30 fires blazed across LA as homes and…

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth

David Bale3 weeks ago015 mins

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a long shot cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien’s American publisher with the hope of landing a dream assignment: to create an exhaustive atlas of Middle-earth, the…

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Extent of LA fires laid bare for Edinburgh locals as map shows blazes superimposed over Scots capital

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth