History lesson of the day: a time-lapse map of Europe

Europe's shifting borders, from 1000 AD to 2005, set to the soundtrack of Inception . Lacks timeline. via

The history of the world in 100 secs.

Garreth Lloyd (@ godawful ) and Tom Martin (@ heychinaski ) went through 424,000 Wikipedia articles and cross-referenced them to map out 15,...