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Kurtofan posted:Pan-African, Pan-Slavic and Pan-Arab flags are kind of annoying. They wouldn't be if they actually unified.
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Here's the version with flags in their countries. You can tell them apart reasonably well, I think.
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Anyone have a gallery of all of the flags that feature AK-47s or other firearms? It's fascinating to me that countries feature it on their flags.
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Lord Wexia posted:Anyone have a gallery of all of the flags that feature AK-47s or other firearms? It's fascinating to me that countries feature it on their flags. Wikimedia Commons. Only one has the AK-47 on it: Mozambique's.
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Ras Het posted:The French are basically nazis and their cuisine is revolting Their cheeses alone may overpower any opposition from the current regime.
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TinTower posted:Wikimedia Commons. I'd like to visit the Artillery Republic of Vietnam some day. I heard it's a blast.
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ekuNNN posted:
Indiana always getting ripped off in these things. "lets just take their blue and gold flag and make it red and gold  "edit: Oh DC's flag is literally the same. Good work.
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Peanut President posted:Indiana always getting ripped off in these things. "lets just take their blue and gold flag and make it red and gold The Iroquois got a red border. Lots of effort there, too. (Though it's a hard design to touch....)
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OddObserver posted:The Iroquois got a red border. Lots of effort there, too. (Though it's a hard design to touch....) I found the original size for people who wanted more detail. It's loving huge, 10,000 x 5,000 huge https://i.imgur.com/p8jPNi0.png Edit: changes Prince Edward's Island's name but not Maryland's or Georgia's. Peanut President fucked around with this message at 03:03 on May 16, 2016 |
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May 16, 2016 02:59
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How many "redraw the US state boundaries" maps must we endure?
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Echo Chamber posted:How many "redraw the US state boundaries" maps must we endure? Are there any good "redraw European boundaries" maps?
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Ljubljana, not Trieste, was the capital of the Illyrian provinces and therefore should be the one labelled on that map  Fun fact: Slovenia is one of the few places in Europe that still somewhat celebrates Napoleon, since his naming Ljubljana as the capital led to Slovenian being allowed to be taught in schools and stuff and basically saved it from extinction since the Austrians thought it was peasant talk. There's even a "French Revolution Square" in Ljubljana now.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Here's the version with flags in their countries. You can tell them apart reasonably well, I think. Out of all the continents Africa has the best flags by far. Something good coming out of becoming independent after "three stripes in various colors and orders" was the height of flag design. khwarezm posted:Here: Now I imagine what Napoleon could pull off with Hitler's forces (provided he understood that stuff) DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 04:19 on May 16, 2016 |
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ekuNNN posted:
From the moment I was born, I have ever lived in the State of Paine.
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Kurtofan posted:Pan-African, Pan-Slavic and Pan-Arab flags are kind of annoying. nothing compared to state flags designed by Daughters of the American Revolution and/or confederate flags
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khwarezm posted:Here: A totally valid comparison from the man likely to be the next British Prime Minister: 
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TinTower posted:A totally valid comparison from the man likely to be the next British Prime Minister: Did Bornholm secede? And what is that map anyway, EU pre-2013?
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mcustic posted:Did Bornholm secede? And what is that map anyway, EU pre-2013? I totally missed Croatia wasn't coloured in. 
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I posted some of these a long time ago but some are new. Maps of twitter conversations in various minority/regional languages. Frisian  Maori  Basque  Welsh  Breton  Irish  Cornish  Scots Gaelic  Scots Gaelic, UK and Ireland only.  Manx About the Manx map, from the map maker: quote:A word or two regarding the Manx map. Of the six Celtic languages, Manx has the smallest number of users on Twitter and probably the smallest number of speakers also. Several users have "Isle of Man", "Ellan Vannin" (or variants thereof) as their location (and no more specific location on the island). Because of this, I normalized all locations on the island to a single lat/long, and therefore (disappointingly) the map doesn't show what I expect is actually an interesting network of communication taking place on the island; instead it just shows the conversation pathways between the island and three users off the island. From here http://indigenoustweets.blogspot.fr/ and to see how many people are tweeting in these languages http://indigenoustweets.com/
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computer parts posted:Are there any good "redraw European boundaries" maps? In 1954 Leopold Kohr, Austrian political scientist and self described philosophical anarchist, published The Breakup of Nations. The book protested what he called the "cult of bigness". There is a general desire for expansion and Kohr argued that all the world's problems could be traced back to one power becoming too powerful. The division of the United States was perfect as no one state was large enough to dominate the others or cause much harm. To illustrate his ideas, he drew an idealized version of Europe based strongly on US borders. This, in his mind, was what Europe should strive for:  He realized, however, that dividing Europe into rectangular states would clash with the ‘tribal’ makeup of the continent’s culturally diverse peoples. He proposed the following borders:  I would personally love a EU4 or Victoria 2 mod that tried to divide Europe as set up above.
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QuoProQuid posted:I would personally love a EU4 or Victoria 2 mod that tried to divide Europe as set up above. Looks pretty similar to the DeJure kingdoms map for CK2.
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At the absolute least, that map doesn't reflect the ethnic movements at the end of WW2.
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Also I would definitely divide England up into the Heptarchy if we're dividing everyone else up.
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That was the first thing that struck me, England getting an insane population advantage in both of those maps.
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I'd had thought at least Cornwall and Yorkshire would have got independence.
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I'm the Papal States in 1954
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System Metternich posted:I'm the Papal States in 1954 I also enjoyed that one.
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I'm Greater Poland renamed Posen.
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Don't see that everyday, a Greater X which is actually smaller than the actual X.
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Antti posted:Don't see that everyday, a Greater X which is actually smaller than the actual X. Seriously. I was expecting, like, those bonkers maps about the Eurasia-spanning Korean Empire circa 2000 BC.
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Gotta correct that right away, have a map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the current western borders of Poland haphazardly painted in by me  I'm sure Polish irredentists would love to get their hands on that. Probably even including Tobago and that one city in Gambia.
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Eskaton posted:Pretty sure the Persians and Ottomans spoke Turkish and Persian to eachother because they both knew how to speak it, but maybe that's just a Safavid thing. States used French in diplomacy precisely because of this - if two countries spoke 'the same language' then treaties would be opened up to endless ambiguity with regards to dialect, synonyms etc. I'm not suggesting that people who spoke the same non-French language went around saying, "Bonjour Monsieur!" but that when they put their agreements onto paper they were all written in French so there would be absolutely no disagreement on what the document actually said. It was the legal-speak of the 19th century, in other words.
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System Metternich posted:Gotta correct that right away, have a map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the current western borders of Poland haphazardly painted in by me That country would not include large areas where Poles actually live, thanks again to Soviet and American and British people drawing lines on a map.
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That map depicts the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 17th century, way before the Soviet Union, the USA or even the UK existed, so I'm not sure how they're supposed to come into play here  But now I'm curious: where do Poles live that's not covered by that area? I know way too little about Eastern Europe
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System Metternich posted:That map depicts the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 17th century, way before the Soviet Union, the USA or even the UK existed, so I'm not sure how they're supposed to come into play here He was talking about a wild hypothetical wherein modern-day Poland would get all former Polish-Lithuanian lands.
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System Metternich posted:That map depicts the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 17th century, way before the Soviet Union, the USA or even the UK existed, so I'm not sure how they're supposed to come into play here In the aftermath of WW2, the Polish nation was moved west, as part of a bright idea Stalin had. The entire population of many eastern German towns were loaded on cattle cars and shipped further into Germany. The entire population of many eastern Polish towns were loaded onto cattle cars and moved west, across Poland, and unloaded in empty former German towns, villages, and cities. This had the effect of moving an entire nation some miles to the west. It was a process that looked clean on a map but was not at all clean in its implementation.
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Ah that. I know, thats why I tried to include the current western borders as well. Should have painted them to be more visible I guess
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cheerfullydrab posted:In the aftermath of WW2, the Polish nation was moved west, as part of a bright idea Stalin had. The entire population of many eastern German towns were loaded on cattle cars and shipped further into Germany. The entire population of many eastern Polish towns were loaded onto cattle cars and moved west, across Poland, and unloaded in empty former German towns, villages, and cities. This had the effect of moving an entire nation some miles to the west. It was a process that looked clean on a map but was not at all clean in its implementation. I'm wondering what the thread thinks of these events. Good thing, bad thing, necessary thing? Its often forgotten about, with all the horrors of that war, many inflicted by Germans, that this sort of ethnic cleansing happened to them as well (though obviously not to anything like the same degree of violence).
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