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12020-08-17T01:34:17-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f596playing card tagplain2020-08-17T10:36:47-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Lakes are a prominent - almost ubiquitous - element of the empire's geography. Along with rivers, they are among the few features included on the small map insets on the cards. We only attached the "lakes" tag in cases where they were specifically mentioned on the cards.
While there is only so much you can learn about Russia's lakes from a set of playing cards, they do include nuggets of information here and there. We learn, for example, that...