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Truly insightful animated gif of the growth of the US territories and states. The only improvement I can think of is if there was a timeline control – watching the dates change while keeping track of map changes is almost impossible.
Wikipedia Commons cites this as the work of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Golbez, who has also produced a similar work (with a slower timestep) for Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canada_provinces_evolution.gif
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