Map in (Google) Map Support : http://ejohn.org/blog/one-week-of-google-maps-part-7/ (displays a small, zoomed out, map in the corner of your main map demo ) would;
1) Embed HTML on top of a map (it took a little bit of poking around in the API to try and figure out how to get the HTML onto the map; looking at the code for similar functions, such as GSmallMapControls, helped a lot) and
2) Put a Map in that HTML

Lots of good Comments (39) and Trackbacks (25) following "30-second-AJAX-Tutorial" : http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/85-Rasmus-30-second-AJAX-Tutorial.html

PHP script that dynamically creates the javascript for the Google Maps API (and loads points with descriptions from a MySQL database) tutorial : http://www.map-server.com/googlemaps/tutorial.html

Nice Google Map mashup : http://www.maphistory.org/ of historical sites (using http://ypn-js.overture.com/partner/js/ypn.js )

"...people's facility for spatial thinking can inform and influence processes of learning, instruction, assessment and problem solving. " : http://aaalab.stanford.edu/

Wayfinding with Maps and Verbal Directions : http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2005/docs/p1473.pdf

Profiles of historic cartographers (by surname) : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All at http://worldviewmaps.com/fresh/cartographers.aspx

Currently Result #2 of about 96,000,000 for great maps (Google Search) as greatmap.blogspot.com

"Here's to the crazy ones...Einstein.
The misfits; the rebels... Bob Dylan.
The troublemakers. .. Martin Luther King.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. .. Richard Branson.
They're not fond of rules, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
and they have no respect for the status quo... Buckminster Fuller.
You can quote them, Thomas Alva Edison.
disagree with them, glorify Muhammad Ali.
or vilify them... Ted Turner.
About the only thing you can't do, is ignore them; Maria Callas.
because they change things... Gandhi.
They push the human race forward.. . Amelia Earhart.
And while some may see them ... Alfred Hitchcock.
as the crazy ones, Martha Graham.
We see genius... Jim Henson.
Because the people who are crazy enough.. Frank Lloyd Wright.
to think they can change the world... Pablo Picasso.
are the ones who do.
Apple's "Think Different" campaign via http://www.sleepingcat.com/other/thinkdifferent/