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fade5 posted:God the Azerbaijan/Armenia border is weird. There's also smaller exclaves not on that map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Armenia/@40.2739703,44.8656823,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x40155684e773bac7:0xd0b4757aeb822d23
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computer parts posted:btw the top of that map is correct - Washington territory did use to extend out to where Idaho is today: Pah-Utah...Pah-Utah.... wait - Paiute? Neato! 
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HorseRenoir posted:Karafuto shall rise again I'm going to send the Oxford University press editors an angry email, one of them is clearly a Japanese nationalist.
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twoday posted:Do you know when this claim was made? Don't know, it happened before 1781 so none of my research cared. And now that you ask, I'm really annoyed that I apparently didn't source it extending so far; while many maps show it as extending as far as the Tennessee, Mississippi, and Illinois Rivers, I haven't yet found any text backing that up. Hrm.
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Why would you put the Danish and Croatian dot right on the edge of their respective countries?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Why would you put the Danish and Croatian dot right on the edge of their respective countries? Looks pretty close to the geographic center to me. You got something against Bornholm?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Why would you put the Danish and Croatian dot right on the edge of their respective countries?
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dublish posted:Looks pretty close to the geographic center to me. You got something against Bornholm? kalstrams posted:Heart of Denmark in Skåne is fairly accurate.
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Has there ever been an American academic that drew a clear line between Indian lands stolen by war --> recipients of Royal grants --> small farmers, state lands being ceded to the federal government after the Revolutionary War --> shady land speculators --> small farmers, Federal lands in the territories --> railroad companies --> small farmers, and western lands stolen from Mexicans --> corrupt officials --> small farmers? There seems to be a real continuity in American history where land gets seized by bloodshed or theft, a shady middleman gets hold of it, the land is sold to unsuspecting rubes to profit the middleman, and then a generation or four later it goes back to being the property of banks, the government, or corporations. There must be a way to map this phenomenon. The Homestead Act is the only really notable exception to this process.
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sparatuvs posted:
I've seen this more than a few times on maps in China. I don't know why.
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"Britain is bursting at the seams with all these asylum applications".
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It only lists Syrians though. There are a fair amount of other nationalities seeking asylum as well. I don't think it's a significant increase in the British total but the Finnish figure for example is kind of misleading because in Finland the asylum seekers have been predominantly from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, and relatively few Syrians (they went to Sweden next door instead). It's critical to remember it's not only Syrians that are involved, because the EU-Turkey deal relies on the pretense that it's only Syrians. Turkish law allows Syrians to get asylum in Turkey, but not Iraqis or Afghanis. The risk is that when people other than Syrians are returned to Turkey, they will be subject to refoulement. Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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Antti posted:It only lists Syrians though. There are a fair amount of other nationalities seeking asylum as well. I don't think it's a significant increase in the British total but the Finnish figure for example is kind of misleading because in Finland the asylum seekers have been predominantly from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, and relatively few Syrians (they went to Sweden next door instead). Huh, didn't know that word before this. There's also a decent amount of Nigerians that cross into Europe by water.
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Here's an interactive map of historical battles. You can set the date range size and slowly drag around to see where the violence was happening at what time.
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Echo Chamber posted:Here's an interactive map of historical battles. You can set the date range size and slowly drag around to see where the violence was happening at what time. As per english-language Wikipedia. Still a neat tool though. I just realized that Europe is the Balkans of Eurasia
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Grand Fromage posted:I've seen this more than a few times on maps in China. I don't know why. Pre-war borders to annoy the
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The Chinese should have infinitely more incentives to revel in Japan's losses than to annoy Russia.
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They're going to keep slowly moving it north until Japan is located entirely in the Kamchatka Peninsula.
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steinrokkan posted:The Chinese should have infinitely more incentives to revel in Japan's losses than to annoy Russia. I imagine there is some entirely pragmatic reason for it, Japan's interpretation of the Sakhalin situation coincides with their own claims elsewhere, something like that. That's usually what motivates current Chinese foreign policy.
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Phlegmish posted:I imagine there is some entirely pragmatic reason for it, Japan's interpretation of the Sakhalin situation coincides with their own claims elsewhere, something like that. That's usually what motivates current Chinese foreign policy. Upon review i seems there are many Chinese salty about the Qing dynasty renegging on the Treaty of Nerchinsk which awarded loads of land to China, including Sakhalin. The Chinese were forced to abandon these claims during the decline of the 19th century, so I guess nowadays the revisionists are not happy about recognizing the legitimacy of recent territorial changes - and maybe referring to Sakhalin as under Japanese occupation makes it easier to claim it? I dunno.
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DarkCrawler posted:As per english-language Wikipedia. Still a neat tool though. Not at all, Europe is just where the battles that Anglos care about happened.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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The PRC has since formally renounced all claims to the Amur concession, though...?
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Doesn't mean nationalists can't remain salty about it.
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steinrokkan posted:Upon review i seems there are many Chinese salty about the Qing dynasty renegging on the Treaty of Nerchinsk which awarded loads of land to China, including Sakhalin. The Chinese were forced to abandon these claims during the decline of the 19th century, so I guess nowadays the revisionists are not happy about recognizing the legitimacy of recent territorial changes - and maybe referring to Sakhalin as under Japanese occupation makes it easier to claim it? I dunno. To clarify this is in an American published book. It is just a bad map. e:also Hainan island ass struggle fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I've seen this more than a few times on maps in China. I don't know why. Internalization of pre-WW2 norms of great power politics?
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Mar 25, 2016 03:37
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Mao being really mad about the Soviets?
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Chinese people seem pretty pro-Russia nowadays so I don't think that's it. Honestly if I had to guess I'd say whoever printed the map Baidu searched "world map", clicked a random one to copy and didn't give a poo poo about checking anything except coloring Taiwan to match China.
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Grand Fromage posted:Chinese people seem pretty pro-Russia nowadays so I don't think that's it. But in the process, forgot to color Hainan Island.
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Guavanaut posted:Is it called Boaty McBoatface? You mean the RSS Blas de Lezo? Tei fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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There's a lot of great ones https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/sweary-maps-2-swear-harder/
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Peanut President posted:There's a lot of great ones I'm the Bible Belt saying "dang" and Utah saying "effing."
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It's fun how the entire state of Utah is a no-bullshit zone.
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Bloodnose posted:It's fun how the entire state of Utah is a no-bullshit zone. It's also a no gently caress zone! I love how whenever the north has a giant blue patch North Dakota is just randomly like "eh nope we're anywhere from yellow to dark red" edit:  
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In the -a form it's most often a part of AAVE, so that map makes perfect sense. e: Except Reeves County, TX. They're probably just racist.
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Most of those areas are predominantly black. I wonder what's west Texas' excuse.
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Ah that makes sense, I didn't think even black people in America used the -a version as a swear word, so I figured it was just white people being awful racists. Turns out that's just Texas.
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