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Whiz Palace posted:Number of big league hockey teams. Got it in one.
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Torrannor posted:Sooo, can we get a hint what this map is about? It has to do with the American Dream.
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Guavanaut posted:The United States of America It's States where women are more likely than men to live in poverty
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Alabama is surprisingly literate. Are we sure Lord Byron isn't some sort of local fast food chain?
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ekuNNN posted:Guess the map Why is alaska like half scale?
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Baronjutter posted:Why is alaska like half scale? Is not a map intended for sea men to find his way, so the artist took some liberties
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When they rebuilt Alaska over the remains of mexico they got lazy because it's pretty big, and made it a caricature of itself. It's now called AlaskaLand.
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 Well known "Mohammedan" regions: Ireland, Southern England Also, apparently half of Latin American never converted to Catholicism. (I'm sure the first part is caused by color fading over time, but still..)
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Percent of the population favoring a union between Canada and the United States.
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Nckdictator posted:Well known "Mohammedan" regions: Ireland, Southern England  ?
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Number of people who have been killed by a falling piano.
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Why are the Kuriles the same color as Japan rather than Russia?
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wdarkk posted:Why are the Kuriles the same color as Japan rather than Russia? Politically-loaded.
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oh the Kurils all merged together to become one giant island and were awarded to Japan e:f;b
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Nckdictator posted:
Noted Christian countries: Somalia. Eritrea. Noted Pagan devilworshippers: Ethiopia
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Schizotek posted:Noted Christian countries: Somalia. Eritrea. Noted Fetishits: British Columbia
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Nckdictator posted:
Non-Mohammedan regions: Indonesia.
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Non-existent continents: Antarctica
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majormonotone posted:Got it in one. Arizona hasn't had 2 professional hockey teams since 2009
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HookShot posted:Non-existent continents: Antarctica Victoria, Enderby and Adelie Land and the South Shetlands have been discovered, thus dating this map to 1860s-1870s, but the map-maker is in denial that there's much to this Antarctica thing, his Terra Australis dreams having been crushed during childhood.
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I'd make fun of the west coast being labeled fetish worshippers, but I've been to San Francisco, so
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Lake Albert's on the map, so it can't have been made before 1864. The map creator felt it unnecessary to mark Germany, and 'Turkey' is positioned above Bulgaria, so it's probably both before the Russo-Turkish War and the Franco-Prussian War. 1870? e: "British America" instead of "Canada". How quickly did the latter name catch on after confederation in 1867? Might not indicate much either way, since the mapmaker is clearly a little bit of a throwback in other respects. Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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1883 it looks like. https://archive.org/details/errorschainshowf00dobb Error's Chains: how forged and broken. A complete, graphic, and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern
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Schizotek posted:Noted Christian countries: Somalia. Eritrea.
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Nckdictator posted:
fetlife has strong membership in South America
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Guavanaut posted:Well yeah. Don't you watch The author acknowledges the metaphor of the Kuriles as a turd being shat out of Kamchatka straight onto Japan's head.
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I'm godless New Zealand.
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I'm buddhist Kolymatwoday posted:I'm godless New Zealand. They're clearly Mohammedan
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Nckdictator posted:1883 it looks like. So the map's not even that old, the map creator was just extremely lazy, drawing straight lines everywhere and randomly dividing South America down the middle. Tough poo poo, Argentina Fetichists.
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This map seems incredibly ignorant even for its' time. Most of Far Eastern Russia is Christian and then the part across from Alaska is Buddhist? Half of South America isn't fully Catholic by this point but Australia is fully converted? Newfoundland and New Zealand are straight up blank, not even "Fetichist" lol.... Ireland, Indonesia, wtf. The mapmaker didn't even color inside the lines on some of these coastlines!
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Samuel Clemens posted:
Torrannor posted:Sooo, can we get a hint what this map is about? At this point I'll just tell you that I right-click>SearchGoogleForImage on all of these "Guess the map" things as soon as I see them but don't spoil the game for the rest of you, but since the thread has moved on from this one, it's global home ownership rates. I'm not entirely sure if all the gray countries are gray because they lack data, have rates below 50%, or have outlawed home ownership but whatever, now you know what the map is. It seems weird to see such high rates in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe while seeing no data for most of South America, Asia, and Africa. Randandal fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Randandal posted:This map seems incredibly ignorant even for its' time. Most of Far Eastern Russia is Christian and then the part across from Alaska is Buddhist? Half of South America isn't fully Catholic by this point but Australia is fully converted? Newfoundland and New Zealand are straight up blank, not even "Fetichist" lol.... Ireland, Indonesia, wtf. The mapmaker didn't even color inside the lines on some of these coastlines! Ignorant?! Nope, it's predictions on China were 100% accurate obviously. (I'm loving these phrases: "Gibraltar of Heathenism", "Buddhist Pope") 
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Randandal posted:I'm not entirely sure if all the gray countries are gray because they lack data, have rates below 50%, or have outlawed home ownership but whatever, now you know what the map is. It seems weird to see such high rates in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe while seeing no data for most of South America, Asia, and Africa.
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Here's the site I originally got the map from. It's an interesting article on the relationship between Homeownership and GDP Per Capita.
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Randandal posted:It seems weird to see such high rates in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe ... If rents are high and houses are cheap people don't want to rent. Could be that, or a cultural thing.
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Nckdictator posted:
The House of Saud was in the process of unifying Arabia at that time.
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Randandal posted:At this point I'll just tell you that I right-click>SearchGoogleForImage on all of these "Guess the map" things as soon as I see them but don't spoil the game for the rest of you, but since the thread has moved on from this one, it's global home ownership rates. I'm not entirely sure if all the gray countries are gray because they lack data, have rates below 50%, or have outlawed home ownership but whatever, now you know what the map is. It seems weird to see such high rates in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe while seeing no data for most of South America, Asia, and Africa. In the wake of the fall of communist rule, most of the eastern bloc countries set up programs such that your old government granted but technically just rented apartment/house/whatever would become owned by you at a very low cost. As a result, tons of people are now living in homes they own, which in a typical Western city would merely be long term rentals. Also Scandinavia recently had a fad for converting rental apartments/homes into condos, which also counts as home ownership. Something to do with tax benefits, I think? They barely had any condo-type ownership before the 70s.
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fishmech posted:Also Scandinavia recently had a fad for converting rental apartments/homes into condos, which also counts as home ownership. Something to do with tax benefits, I think? They barely had any condo-type ownership before the 70s. They also have hosed up interest-only mortgages. So you get some huge mortgage on an over-valued condo, but only pay the interest, not the principle. You never touch the principle so never "pay off" your mortgage, it's almost like a weird never ending lease.
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Finland and Sweden have encouraged home ownership with tax breaks far beyond what would be rational. Sweden has the interest-only mortgages on top of that as well.
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