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Angepain posted:The three major religions of the modern day, Christianity, Islam, and Communism. Don't forget Mongols
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twoday posted:Don't forget Mongols Mongols are Evangelic Lutheran. Well, the Mongols that matter 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Mongols are Evangelic Lutheran. Well, the Mongols that matter Kalmyks?
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Schizotek posted:Kalmyks? No thanks I had mushroom soup for lunch.
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1000 years of war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsDn2kNriI
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doodlebugs posted:1000 years of war Man, everyplace that isn't Europe needs to get with the program already.
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Mar 20, 2017 18:49
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I thought the people in the highlands of New Guinea were pretty much always at war with each other.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I thought the people in the highlands of New Guinea were pretty much always at war with each other. It seems like it only counts state warfare though, otherwise Africa would be considerably less quiet.
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Ah, but what is a state? [launches into 500-paragraph post]
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Private Speech posted:It seems like it only counts state warfare though, otherwise Africa would be considerably less quiet. What it counts is battles that managed to get a wikipedia article in English. The creator of it plans to "eventually" get around to start including battles only mentioned on German wikipedia, those only mentioned on French wikipedia, and so on.
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Mar 20, 2017 21:27
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twoday posted:Don't forget Mongols The "communism" at the end is really loving dumb though.
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Mar 20, 2017 21:48
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They didn't even include the original Scourge of God
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Phlegmish posted:Ah, but what is a state? [launches into 500-paragraph post] Saladin Rising posted:The "communism" at the end is really loving dumb though.
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Platystemon posted:
I'm the annexation of Massachusetts by Rhode Island 
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Mar 20, 2017 23:25
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Kinda lame that for washington they stopped right away instead of going all the way back to "Estate of the descendants of wheat sheaf."
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Mar 20, 2017 23:28
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, most of it isn't even real communism. :trotsay: Alternatively: 
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Mar 20, 2017 23:31
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Good Riddance Wisconsin
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Platystemon posted:
Alaska's is metal.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:33
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Platystemon posted:
I'm Wisconsin. efb
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a sexual elk posted:Good Riddance Wisconsin Michicagn 2: The Electric Boogaloo.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:38
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I'm British Coloumbia, the province that couldn't decide whether to go for the 'u' or the 'o' so went for both.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:39
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That's a pretty... charged area. 
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Mar 20, 2017 23:41
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I'm Mexico not getting a translation.
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Mar 20, 2017 23:49
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We lost the Aroostook War.
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Sinestro posted:That's a pretty... charged area. That would be Coulombia, which would be on the rendition of this map of South America
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oldswitcheroo posted:I'm Mexico not getting a translation. Sinestro posted:That's a pretty... charged area. 
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Guavanaut posted:I think you can infer that it's Place of [Aztec God]. Sure, but Mexico's got states too. What do their names (dubiously) mean?
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The Sin of Onan posted:Sure, but Mexico's got states too. What do their names (dubiously) mean? Boy have I got a wikipedia page for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mexican_state_name_etymologies
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The Sin of Onan posted:Sure, but Mexico's got states too. What do their names (dubiously) mean? Low Mythical Island Califia South Place of [Aztec God] Place of [Aztec God] City (not a state) Possessor of Fish Cut Corn Tortilla Dry Place I Don't Understand What You're Saying Some Others efb, but the wiki has it as 'What did you say?' instead
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vyelkin posted:Toronto only hits 9.5 if you include the whole Golden Horseshoe which includes a lot of cities and towns that are definitely outside the Toronto metro area, including another major city, Hamilton (metro population 1.3 million, people from there will get upset if you tell them they're from Toronto). Hamilton is so part of Metro Toronto now, so is Barrie. Kitchener/Waterloo are almost part of Toronto and people from there commute into the city.
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sbaldrick posted:Hamilton is so part of Metro Toronto now, so is Barrie. Kitchener/Waterloo are almost part of Toronto and people from there commute into the city. Plenty of people commute all the way from Philadelphia to New York City and vice-versa, that doesn't really make them part of the same city even though there's that whole Northeast Megalopolis concept. That's about 85 miles straight line distance where Waterloo-Toronto is about 65.
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Politically loaded address.
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Guavanaut posted:Low Mythical Island Califia 
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California's etymology is super weird and based off an old Spanish romance novel of the sort Don Quixote was making fun of. Queen Califia was the queen of a fictional paradise so they named the new "island" they found after her. Sort of like like how Amazonia was named after a Greek myth that got a lot of Medieval types hot under the collar. In their defense, I'm pretty sure they were running out of saints to name things after by then. Later, California turned out to be way too loving huge to be one colony so they split it into Alta and Baja (upper and lower) California. The Americans only annexed one of the Californias, so the "Alta" part got dropped. This left Baja California in Mexico, but much of the land on the southern part of the peninsula wasn't really developed at all until a century later, so the state of Baja California only extended as far as the big fuckoff desert in the middle of the peninsula. There was no highway across the desert until 1973 (hardly anyone lives in that part of the peninsula), so the unincorporated territory south of Baja California state was more closely tied with Sonora and Sinaloa (a short ferry ride away across they Sea of Cortez) than they were with Baja proper (where most of the population lives near the US border). This resulted in Southern Baja California developing a distinct political and social climate that had little in common with the government in Mexicali, so when the territory finally became incorporated in 1974, the locals chose to become their own state (Mexico's youngest). They're in Baja California, but they're south of the state of Baja California, so naturally they went with the ridiculous name of Baja California Sur, or "Lower California South." In practice, most people call it "Sur" or "BCS."
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As an aside, most Americans seem to have no awareness that Tijuana and Cabo San Lucas are in different states and a lot of people have no idea BCS even exists. Jerry Brown apparently didn't even bother to meet with their governor (though I can't find an article on it now). There are hundreds of miles of beautiful desert, mountains, and beaches between Ensenada and La Paz that tourists hardly go to and a lot of the towns in there seem like they're straight out of an old Western with people living in traditional adobes and riding horses and donkeys down dirt roads to get to work (also lots of dusty old pickup trucks). If you ever visit Baja, for the love of god, get south of the border region because there's a lot more to see than just tourist traps and urban squalor. Just make sure to bring a spare tire because even Highway 1 can get pretty rough in places.
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Duckbag posted:California's etymology is super weird and based off an old Spanish romance novel of the sort Don Quixote was making fun of. Queen Califia was the queen of a fictional paradise so they named the new "island" they found after her. Sort of like like how Amazonia was named after a Greek myth that got a lot of Medieval types hot under the collar. I easily imagine the spanish divided in two camps. The practical boring faction "Today is Saint Lucas, so this new isle get to be called Saint Lucas". And the nerds "He, this valley looks a lot like Rivendell from Lord of the Rings, lets call it Rivendell". In the lucky places the nerds won. Except San Francisco, despite being a saint name is kind of cool. Anyway in a way both factions are similar. Saints being cool guys doing cool poo poo and heroic poo poo, then dying in a horrific cool way. Saints are more like normal people superheroes, while nerds have their different set of superheros. Fiction names are a good system to name things in a memorable way. Nobody remembers QHKLTY45 but if you name some place "Giedi Prime", people remember. It works for things like server names, or stuff you need people to remember. Tei fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Mar 21, 2017 |
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I'm Rhode Island
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Roodt Eyelandt. Regarding Idaho: quote:The first known use of this name was by or before a Congressional committee early in 1860, when the proposal to create a new territory of the Pikes Peak region was before the Congress. In the April 18, 1860 issue of the Rocky Mountain News, Mr. S.W. Beall wrote back to Denver and stated that this name Idaho seemed the most popular suggestion before the committee. On May 10 and 11, 1860, the Congressional Globe mentions the proposals for the Territory of Idaho, and noted that Idaho was an Indian name signifying "Gem of the Mountain." When the territory with Denver as its center was later created, the name Colorado was substituted at the last moment for Idaho. How this name came before the Congress very early in 1860 is unknown. If this was an Indian name known to the miners who flocked to the gold fields in 1859, no mention of the fact was ever made in the newspapers of those days. So perhaps the name was invented by one Dr. George M. Willing; at any rate he claimed to have done so. Willing came to Denver in 1859 from St. Louis and became a candidate for election as delegate to the Congress, despite the lack of any right of the gold miners to have a delegate in Washington. Even though Willing lost the election, he went on to Washington and posed as the properly elected delegate. He claimed that he there invented the name Idaho, it being suggested by the presence of a little girl, Ida. His relation of the matter was published by a friend of his, William O. Stoddard, in the New York Daily Tribune for December 11, 1875.
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Tei posted:I easily imagine the spanish divided in two camps. The practical boring faction "Today is Saint Lucas, so this new isle get to be called Saint Lucas". And the nerds "He, this valley looks a lot like Rivendell from Lord of the Rings, lets call it Rivendell". In the lucky places the nerds won. Except San Francisco, despite being a saint name is kind of cool. The other two Spanish camps were unimaginative but more or less accurate toponyms and naming places after patrons, which in one case led to one of the few established settlements in eighteenth century California having a Sicilian name.
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