Incredible Coincidence

Dawn is delivering a lecture in Vienna at an annual Symposium she organises for the market research industry. As part of her powerpoint presentation she wanted a map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but against modern borders. I produced this for her:



















Last weekend, I was at the community rubbish tip getting rid of a load of packaging material. As I was heaving it onto the tip, I spotted by my foot the corner of a piece of paper with the words 'Austria-Hungary' on it. I pulled it out and there was a pristine Bartholemew map of the AH Empire, circa 1910, pictured below: