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fishmech posted:I like all the people waiting to learn Swedish until they get to Sweden I teach Danish in Denmark, and some of my students are people who moved here for a job or love and didn't even know of the country beforehand almost. It's very likely that a lot of that crowd doesn't bother with school settings and just go for duolingo when they have time. And those with native partners end up being quite good too.
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TinTower posted:It's more likely proportionate; Namibia is a former German colony. According to wiki, at most 7% of the population is of European ancestry. Out of those, only about a third speak German (60% are native speakers of Afrikaans).
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fade5 posted:Wait, where's Turkish on the map? I don't see any country shaded dark green. I think what happened is they decided to list their top X languages, and then had to stick Swedish in when it was the clear dominant language in one country. And then didn't bother to remove Italian and Turkish when it turned out no country had them as a majority.
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Soviet Commubot posted:Politically loaded because Crimea is in Ukraine. merci mates 
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Soviet Commubot posted:Politically loaded because Crimea is in Ukraine. Politically loaded because of Somaliland; politically ignorant because of French Guiana (Svalbard too, but French Guiana is more egregious).
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fishmech posted:I think what happened is they decided to list their top X languages, and then had to stick Swedish in when it was the clear dominant language in one country. And then didn't bother to remove Italian and Turkish when it turned out no country had them as a majority. The blog post has a table with Turkish and Italian being the most-learned language in 1 country each (like Swedish). Where? I have no idea. I can only guess that they're micro-nations that don't show up on the map (Vatican City for Italian?) or artefacts of their data collection method (a "test" country that wasn't erased that wants to learn Turkish?).
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Shazback posted:(a "test" country that wasn't erased that wants to learn Turkish?).
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Did the 2 north of Norway get super ridiculously lost or something? 2 of the 3 in Canada seem to be near Claresholm, which was a training base at the time where my husband's uncle from the Australian Air Force died in a training accident. There's also 2 near the Bahamas, one in Morocco, one in Egypt and one off the coast of Libya. HookShot fucked around with this message at 00:14 on May 10, 2016 |
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HookShot posted:Did the 2 north of Norway get super ridiculously lost or something? Arkhangelsk convoy ship launched air cover I'd guess.
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Those were probably convoy protection pilots on escort carriers. North of Norway is on the Murmansk Run.
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Soviet Commubot posted:Politically loaded because Crimea is in Ukraine. Interesting that there's data for North Korea on this.
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North Koreans learning the devil pigdog language instead of Russian or Mandarin. I hope they have official authorization for that.
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Phlegmish posted:North Koreans learning the devil pigdog language instead of Russian or Mandarin. I hope they have official authorization for that. It's probably the wealthy and privileged children of the elite learning English so as to absorb our basketball movies and/or study abroad. Definitely not the
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slavatuvs posted:death locations of Czech pilots during ww2
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Pretty hosed-up that so many Czech pilots decided to join the Germans in their attack on the UK. Well, if this was a map of Slovak pilots...
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From a site about people who seek to travel to the highest point in every US county or county equivalent:   
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If climbing somewhere in Hawaii is harder than the Haiku Stairs then I do not want to go there because holy poo poo.
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HookShot posted:If climbing somewhere in Hawaii is harder than the Haiku Stairs then I do not want to go there because holy poo poo. The one they highlight as hardest in Hawaii, on Kauai, is not hard in pure climbing. What's difficult is dealing with all the sloshing through bogs/swamps and jungle on the route up to the high point.
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 Here is Everyone Who Has Emigrated to the United States Since 1820 Data visualization from Metrocosm illustrates US immigration in nearly 200 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiPq7C06zjQ From 1920 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. This map visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. 1 dot = 10,000 people
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fishmech posted:The one they highlight as hardest in Hawaii, on Kauai, is not hard in pure climbing. What's difficult is dealing with all the sloshing through bogs/swamps and jungle on the route up to the high point. Yeah, I kinda figured, but if it's still physically more demanding and difficult than the Haiku stairs well oh hell no.
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I'm the borders of today being used to represent states in 1820.
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ekuNNN posted:
I like how you can see when the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
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Weird how all through World War II Germany stays in the top 3. Could this be based on naturalisation instead of the actual physical moment of migration?
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Apologies for the poor quality, wasn't able to scan the pages. The keys are spoilered in case anyone wants to guess what the letters mean    From Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations, 1948 tag youre fat fucked around with this message at 17:07 on May 11, 2016 |
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The stripy hand of communism. Why is Mozambique labelled Somalia and Somalia unlabeled?
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Guavanaut posted:The stripy hand of communism. You already know too much.
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ekuNNN posted:Eurovision 2016 Why is Portugal not in Eurovision? Also gently caress yes a Montenegro hype song.
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Lord Wexia posted:Why is Portugal not in Eurovision? I kind of want to check it out, but I know in my heart that it can't live up to Who See's Igranka from '13.
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Why doesn't Slovakia get to play either? The politically loaded part is Kosovo not getting a spot.
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HookShot posted:Why doesn't Slovakia get to play either? Because some countries just give up from time to time. Both Portugal and Slovakia have been pretty unsuccessful, Portugal's last entry in particular was a disaster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhMbHLiEjS4
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Looking it up on Wiki: *Portugal withdrew because they don't win so they're restructuring their selection process *Slovakia (and Luxembourg) says it costs too much Eurovision is such a weird thing. Now I know how euro's feel about baseball or nascar.
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Swan Curry posted:Apologies for the poor quality, wasn't able to scan the pages. The keys are spoilered in case anyone wants to guess what the letters mean This are weird maps because they are missing so much information despite having so much.
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I'm Communist Svalbard.
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Golbez posted:I'm Communist Svalbard. Most people on the islands during the CW were Soviets, who also ran the local mining industry. It was really only nominally a Nowrwegian territory.
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steinrokkan posted:Most people on the islands during the CW were Soviets, who also ran the local mining industry. It was really only nominally a Nowrwegian territory. Not quite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_Norske_Spitsbergen_Kulkompani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arktikugol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Svalbard#Cold_War It is true that there were more Soviet citizens in the islands during the Cold War, but the settlements and the mines associated with them ran mostly independently of each other. Note that Store Norske predates Arktikugol by some fifteen years. The archipelago has a peculiar status in that Norway has sovereignity of the territory, but all Svalbard Treaty signatory states have the right to conduct economic activities including commerce, fishing and hunting.
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The map is from 1948, at which point the Soviets did have a strong majority on the archipelago, economically and demographically.
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sbaldrick posted:This are weird maps because they are missing so much information despite having so much. The arbitrary naming is my favourite thing, Tasmania gets named but Australia doesn't
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Joachimsthal has been moved to somewhere near Lublin.
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