Charles Apple

We found this posted this a few days ago at  the StrangeMaps blog:

The anonymous StrangeMaps blogger writes this was:

…one of the Guardian’s most elaborate, and most successful April Fool’s pranks, and was ‘revisited’ by the newspaper in 1978, 1980 and 1999.

Elaborate? You bet it was. This little graphic was part of a seven-page special section, StrangeMaps reports.

…The idea for San Serriffe came from Philip Davies, then in charge of the Guardian’s Special Reports department. “The Financial Times was always doing special reports on little countries I’d never heard of. I was thinking about April Fool’s Day 1977 and I thought: Why don’t we just make a country up?”

Find it at StrangeMaps. While you’re there, bookmark the site and visit it often. It’s a wonderful read.

Go here to read the Q&A with the StrangeMaps blogger we posted last year.

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