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Disco Infiva posted:Nope, the one in Devon, England. England, Arkansas?
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Kurtofan posted:Lots of Saint somethings in France, look at all these Saint-Jeans variations (Saint John) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jean https://www.google.fr/maps/place/La...0c3b84e8f825358
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Nintendo Kid posted:Indiana University of Pennslyvania is honestly the best one, imo Don't forget California University of Pennsylvania.
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Torrannor posted:Anyways, every bigger country has repeating city names. There are apparently over 50 towns with the name Hausen here in Germany. And even two of our bigger cities share a name, identified by the river that flows through them, Frankfurt/Main and Frankfurt/Oder.
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As far as uncreative place names go, I kinda like how quickly Australia ran out of ideas with just six states and two territories.
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Unfortunate toponomy deformation  according to wikipedia it used to mean Manure Pond in the local language, and evolved into Jew Pond and then into Death of Jews.An example I'm more familiar with (since it's in the Parisian region ) is the town of Villejuif (Jewtown), which is believed to be a deformation of Ville Juvius (Gallo-Roman for Juvius' Villa, probably some ancient landowner, my hometown is named after one such Gallo-roman landowner, it's pretty common).Really, it's not too different from the American towns that are named after their settlers. In the area you can also find the town of Le Kremlin-Bicetre which is a deformation of Winchester (the Bishop of Winchester had a manor there) to which was added Le Kremlin after the name of a tavern called "Au Sergent du Kremlin" (named in reference to the veterans of the Great Army who went there as the tavern was near Bicetre hospital). The name caught on and they associated the two. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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 The results of the Scottish Independence Referendum. Teal is yes, red is no.
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Mano posted:This need something added with population density ... To be honest it would be more informative with a scale of just how much Yes and No won percentage wise in each area.
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 Here's one with gradations depicting how yes/no a province went. No discreet legend though.  And that is population density circa 2009. Jaramin fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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Sep 19, 2014 20:36
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I'm assuming that the large provinces are very thinly populated, correct?
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Ofaloaf posted:There are 14 communities named Wyoming in the United States, none of which are in the State of Wyoming and 3 of which are in Wisconsin. Wisconsin also has a New Berlin, a New London, two Berlins, two Albanys, three Brooklyns, four Clevelands, five Franklins (and five Farmingtons, but that's not all that surprising), six Grants, and ELEVEN Lincolns. To bring it back to the bars vs. grocery stores map from earlier, I found this article that also has other countries for comparison. that article posted:One interesting bit is that when the original Floatingsheep map was going around, people commented that there was a significant Polish and German population in Wisconsin, which was a possible reason for the high number of bars. However, you can see that in most of both countries, grocery stores dominate. Also, I was surprised that Wisconsin was ranked third in bars per capita, after North Dakota and Montana.
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DrSunshine posted:I'm assuming that the large provinces are very thinly populated, correct? Almost no one lives in the Highlands.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Speaking of non-bigger countries, Denmark also has duplicates, though in this case it's more clone towns than just chance/lack of inspiration. Back when our railroads were being expanded, a lot of station towns were built close to existing "church towns" and villages, and then took their name. Some were close enough for them to grew together, but others remained separate but with the same name. In some ways, that seems dumber than having towns and counties with the same name spread across a continent. The US had something similar, there are lots of towns named "Meridian" because they're on the feature of the same name.
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Nintendo Kid posted:The Miami River and other placenames in Ohio are a good hundred years or so older than Miami in Florida. Though in both cases, the name "Miami" seems to have come about from names of local Native American groups in the respective areas. The places in Ohio are named after the Miami tribe. In the mid to late 19th century a lot of people from Ohio moved to Florida and started founding towns a named those towns after the places back in Ohio.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Indiana University of Pennslyvania is honestly the best one, imo I grew up in Indiana and lived right next to a Philadelphia, Indiana.
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Eerie, Indiana.
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3peat posted:GREATER MOLDOVA
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Action-Man posted:The places in Ohio are named after the Miami tribe. In the mid to late 19th century a lot of people from Ohio moved to Florida and started founding towns a named those towns after the places back in Ohio. The Miami in Florida is probably named for the nearby river, which draws its name in turn from either Lake Okeechobee (formerly called Mayaimi) or a Native American tribe in the area of the lake (who also called themselves the Mayaimi).
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Map of all traffic accidents in the Netherlands in 2013 The colours show whether people died or got wounded or not.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Map of all traffic accidents in the Netherlands in 2013  
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Cutting the turn a bit too much, maybe?
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Antti posted:My favourites by far as far as US placenames go are the ones you named after other prominent places. There's a whole slew of St. Petersburgs, Parises and Londons, and even a couple of Finlands, Swedens and Norways. Good job! There's a Miami in Oklahoma, I have relatives there. It's named after the Miami tribe, which I think is one of the ones that originated out east and got relocated to Oklahoma. Edit: Beaten.
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Antti posted:gently caress, there's a Miami in Ohio. That's gonna be a terrible trap for someone. There's two division one (top tier in sports) universities named "Miami", one in Florida one in Ohio. Usually they're listed as Miami (FL) and Miami (OH). I can't imagine how many poor poor football players commit then later realize they're going to a bad team in rural Ohio instead of a good one in South Florida.
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Uncle Jam posted:Cutting the turn a bit too much, maybe? I think the joke is that all European country roads are way too skinny. Driving through upper and lower Austria was a nightmare. Every curve felt like a head-on collision was right around the corner.
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3peat posted:GREATER MOLDOVA I want to shine the Romania signal and ask why Romania and Moldova are different countries and to what degree Romanian and Moldovan people/language/culture/ethnicity are different.
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Bloodnose posted:I want to shine the Romania signal and ask why Romania and Moldova are different countries and to what degree Romanian and Moldovan people/language/culture/ethnicity are different. I'm pretty sure there's no difference, and Moldova is basically a country made up by Russia/the Soviets to justify their slicing a chunk off Romania and annexing it.
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icantfindaname posted:I'm pretty sure there's no difference, and Moldova is basically a country made up by Russia/the Soviets to justify their slicing a chunk off Romania and annexing it. Specifically, Moldova was one of the historical principalities that united to form Romania. Later on, part of it was transferred to tsarist Russia in exchange for land on the Black Sea taken from the ottomans. Romania gained this land back following the Great War, and in 1940 it changed hands again when Stalin demanded it back and declared it the Moldavian SSR. FWIW that map at least only shows land that actually did constitute the original principality.
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The Moldovan Wikipedia was a battleground, with people arguing about whether or not it should exist. Was it exactly the same language, but with Cyrillic instead of Latin letters (despite Moldova officially switching back to Latin script in 1989)?quote:In its early days, the Romanian Wikipedia encountered problems concerning its division and the creation of a separate Moldovan Wikipedia. A Moldovan language version of Wikipedia exists as it was created automatically together with a larger number of other Wikipedias, because the language had been assigned a separate ISO 639 code (mo/mol—which were deprecated in November 2008 by the ISO authorities). At its beginnings it worked as a portal redirecting to the Romanian Wikipedia, but it eventually began allowing content (although only intended for Cyrillic Moldovan/Romanian as it was used before 1989 in the Moldavian SSR), starting big editing wars and endless discussion. Starting from 2006 it is frozen and editing is no longer permitted. This question is still raised from time to time, although users on Wikipedia voted on its closure. So, the consensus at Wikipedia is that it's not a separate language, and the ISO seems to agree.
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I think something like 60% of moldovan wikipedia pages were literally romanian wikipedia pages passed through a latin->cyrillic converter.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I think the joke is that all European country roads are way too skinny. Driving through upper and lower Austria was a nightmare. Every curve felt like a head-on collision was right around the corner. Maybe you should try driving slower 
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Nessus posted:That's where Pathologic is set, isn't it? I mean, just going by the flag. Pathologic is set in a generic remote Steppe town anyway, and the characters have Russian names.
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Trench_Rat posted:Greater Macedonia So they're officially poisoning their children in schools with really stupid ideas? They're in for a surprise when they realize that Greece is blocking all of their attempts at integrating into the wider international community, Albanians are going to outbreed them in their own country and their language is actually Bulgarian.
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Trench_Rat posted:Greater Macedonia I wonder why they don't just try to unite with Bulgaria in order to form a respectably-sized country of almost ten million people. As I understand it, the two nations are very close to each other culturally. mcustic posted:So they're officially poisoning their children in schools with really stupid ideas? They're in for a surprise when they realize that Greece is blocking all of their attempts at integrating into the wider international community, Albanians are going to outbreed them in their own country and their language is actually Bulgarian. Albania's fertility rate, despite still being somewhat high by European standards, has dropped below the replacement rate since the early 2000's and its population is actually decreasing (due to migration). I'm assuming the same trend holds true for Macedonia's minority Albanian population. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Sep 21, 2014 |
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They should just invade Iran and have even more people.
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beats for junkies posted:Also, I was surprised that Wisconsin was ranked third in bars per capita, after North Dakota and Montana. And first in binge-drinking! Wisconsin is a drinky state. Coincidentally it's also the origin of the Miami Indians, who are an offshoot of the Algonquins that ended up in Ohio and somehow provided the name for an elaborate complex of sewers and animal pens in Florida.
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Bloodnose posted:I want to shine the Romania signal and ask why Romania and Moldova are different countries and to what degree Romanian and Moldovan people/language/culture/ethnicity are different. Romania or rather 2/3 of Romanian majority lands were vassals to Ottomans, as result of war with Russia in 1812 the modern Moldova and some bits of Ukraine were added to Russian Empire. Rest of Romania remained vassal of the Ottomans until next Ruso-Turkish war in 1878 where it joined Russian side and got independence. Romania capitalized on Russian civil war and got Moldova in 1918, also got some parts previously held by Hungary as result of WW1. Moldova was handed over to USSR after ultimatum in 1940, Romanians were understandably mad and jumped into bed with Germany. So when WW2 broke out Romania occupied Moldova, killed the jews(there were a lot), and did other typical Axis stuff. When war tide turned Romania jumped to the winning side(in 1944), and although it didn't get Moldova still got some land out of peace deal(from Hungary and Bulgaria), also got communism. Pyromancer fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Sep 20, 2014 |
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Bloodnose posted:I want to shine the Romania signal and ask why Romania and Moldova are different countries and to what degree Romanian and Moldovan people/language/culture/ethnicity are different. This is anecdotal but a mentor of mine in college was a constitutional framer for Moldova. He basically said that when the USSR was collapsing and they decided to break away in 1990, they didn't want to be a part of the USSR for obvious reasons and Romania because they didn't know what the political or economic situation would be like there since Ceausescu had just been executed.
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