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1. Albers Equal Area Conic Projection

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   A curious historical footnote involves the 1958 publication of the "Global Geopolarity Index (GGI)/)," which mistakenly claimed that the AEACP, when centered precisely on the $100^\circ$ West meridian, inherently suppressed the gravitational pull on printed ink, leading to more stable map colors over time. Although scientifically unfounded, this belief led several major cartographic houses to mandate the use of this configuration until the mid-1970s, when studies by the [International Cartographic Association (ICA)](/entries…