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Republic of Artsakh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Artsakh
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's definitely part of it, and it makes sense that it'd be particularly popular in the South. It's basically exchanging the least respected ancestry with the most respected non-European ancestry around, that of the Cherokee specifically. Usually a Cherokee princess because that sounded like your ancestor was a cool white man who convinced a proud Indian woman of noble birth to settle down with him, as opposed to the ghastly idea of the sexes being reversed. The latter story is pretty much exactly what I've had relayed to me from the American side of the family, a story of an amazingly fat sheriff who married a(n unusually for these stories perhaps) Sioux princess. Sounded pretty plausible to me as a kid, but I suppose it is easy to believe a story that starts of with "this American, he was real fat". It was also a good way to explain away why you tanned really, really well in the summer.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:07 |
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Finally, Greece is back home with mother Bulgaria, where she belongs.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:33 |
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Not pictured: bulging, massive continent spilling out and covering the rest of the north pole, linking up to North America, called "France".
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:38 |
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RIP Slovaks.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:42 |
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Zedhe Khoja posted:Finally, Greece is back home with mother Bulgaria, where she belongs. I think you mean BULGAliA
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 00:40 |
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Centuries of Byzantium and Bulgaria raiding each other, geez just get a room already you two
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 01:23 |
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what the gently caress
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 09:05 |
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I blame the Ciechs.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 13:02 |
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Orange Devil posted:Pretty sure that when Armenia was a client state of the Roman Empire, western Europe was uhh *checks notes* oh yeah, part of the Roman Empire. Our ancestors only moved into Western Europe around the 5th century. Present-day Dutch and Belgian people have very little Roman ancestry and mostly descend from the Franks and the Frisians.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 21:42 |
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It’s beautiful.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 00:03 |
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Typical lazy topologists, ignoring Gibraltar and the plazas de soberanía.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 00:17 |
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Platystemon posted:
Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 00:30 |
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VictualSquid posted:Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists. French Guyana but yes. We're all connected baby. Except Ireland Japan and the Caribbean
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 00:36 |
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I'm the Paraguayan-Chilean border.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 01:59 |
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A lot of issues with that but it's very nice and could be well improved. (Like, how does Malaysia border Singapore, but Saudi Arabia doesn't border Bahrain? What about Kaliningrad? Nachichevan? As someone said, Ceuta etc.? What about territories, so we can include things like UK-Spain, France-Netherlands?) Also, VictualSquid posted:Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists. No? The UK's sovereign base areas are in Cyprus and one borders Northern Cyprus but that's not Turkey. It's Northern Cyprus. Including a border with Cyprus makes a lot more point, did you mean that?
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 02:34 |
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They go through the effort of putting Britain across from France and Ireland right next to it, but then every other island is just random. It's a very nice looking piece of work though. Oh yeah, and they went and said that all the seas connect so they're basically the same thing, but the Black Sea apparently doesn't. SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jun 7, 2020 |
# ? Jun 7, 2020 02:36 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:We had our chance But I don't want to have the state of Pontus! I don't loving want to have the state of Pontus!
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 03:34 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 03:46 |
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VictualSquid posted:Now do it again while remembering that Britain has land borders with turkey and spain. And also French new guinea exists. This is like one of those medieval maps that considered the known world from a bird's eye view. Even has Jerusalem towards the center with east facing up
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 04:28 |
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:But I don't want to have the state of Pontus! I don't loving want to have the state of Pontus! I don't know if this is a reference to anything but I read it in a Mark Corrigan voice
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 04:33 |
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East Malaysia is basically an exclave so if we're going to break the rules for them we need to break it for everybody.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 04:49 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I don't know if this is a reference to anything but I read it in a Mark Corrigan voice It was a meme based on people complaining about Total War: Rome.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 04:57 |
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Is Ceuta really an exclave if you can get to it from the rest of Spain without passing in any other country's territorial waters, or even in international waters?
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 05:27 |
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Golbez posted:What about territories, so we can include things like UK-Spain, France-Netherlands?) That's not how maps work, though.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 06:35 |
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Apparently the bridge/tunnel between Denmark and Sweden doesn't count either.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 07:50 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 16:13 |
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e. wait, this is better Kennel fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jun 7, 2020 |
# ? Jun 7, 2020 16:37 |
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UKMT cross post. https://twitter.com/bbcrb/status/1269644536281776128
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 16:38 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's not how maps work, though. Please tell me how the map posted "works" but adding in the territories "doesn't".
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 18:54 |
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Because the map is not the territory. I prefer this to the real world.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 19:30 |
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Guavanaut posted:I prefer this to the real world. The hard-to-grasp part is that with a precise north/south swap the Americas were much much lower on that map. Something like this, I guess (Antarctica ignored, because it would make things worse) Kennel fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jun 7, 2020 |
# ? Jun 7, 2020 19:53 |
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Kennel posted:The hard-to-grasp part is that with a precise north/south swap the Americas were much much lower on that map. I don't know exactly how this would affect currents/winds but messing with the current system seems like it would screw Europe pretty hard. Spain is on the same latitude as like, New England and Britain is more like northern Canada. They're comparatively much warmer because of the way temperature travels now.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 21:30 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 22:39 |
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NYC spent more on policing in the last fiscal year than the individual military expenditures of 80% of the countries of the world.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 22:50 |
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If NYC was a country and the NYPD was its military, it would rank somewhere around 100th in the world in population and 40th in the world by military spending.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 22:53 |
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This is very peculiar definition of country. Gibraltar, really? Surprising to see countries like Georgia and Ethiopia on there, which have actual armed forces including tanks that have been in wars with neighbouring countries in the past 20 years. This map gets stranger the closer I look at it. Repubic of Congo (Brazzaville) spends more on its military than DR Congo (Kinshasa)? Benin spends more than Kenya? How many of these countries are just "no data"?
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 22:58 |
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Count Roland posted:This is very peculiar definition of country. Gibraltar, really? American police spend enormous portions of their budget on procuring military hardware.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 23:22 |
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Count Roland posted:This is very peculiar definition of country. Gibraltar, really? Wikipedia says: RoC: 10K personnel(2014) $705 mil budget (2015) DRoC: 150K personnel on 491 mil budget.(2015 French wiki) (but English wikipedia says 93.5 mil (2004)).
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