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Alexander of Iowa
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Is that actually to scale?
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Jul 11, 2022 01:20
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Crab Dad posted:Is that actually to scale? Scale and latitude, yeah.
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Jul 11, 2022 01:22
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The US is very large
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It's almost half the size as Texas
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That’s pretty dope. Been all over the US and all around the med so it puts it in relation.
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Jul 11, 2022 01:36
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Grand Fromage posted:Scale and latitude, yeah. I understand how oceans mediate the climate but nevertheless it still breaks my brain when I remember (of places I lived) NYC and Toulouse are almost the same latitude. One is swelter/freeze/swelter/freeze and one is balmy permaspring.
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Gaius Marius posted:It's almost half the size as Texas 32 and a quarter thousand Olympic swimming pools.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I understand how oceans mediate the climate but nevertheless it still breaks my brain when I remember (of places I lived) NYC and Toulouse are almost the same latitude. One is swelter/freeze/swelter/freeze and one is balmy permaspring. Yeah it was very weird when I went to Germany in summer and it didn't really get dark until like midnight. Europe's way the gently caress up there.
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cheetah7071 posted:The US is very large So was the Roman Empire
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vermont still cant get a fuckin coast
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sullat posted:So was the Roman Empire True, behind the façade of republicanism was an entrenched aristocracy, their wealth fueled by military adventures, slavery, resource exploitation, and a freudian fascination with big white columns... but the similarities don't end there!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:True, behind the façade of republicanism was an entrenched aristocracy These things aren't opposites. Having a Republic is not the same thing as having a democracy.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:vermont still cant get a fuckin coast I wouldn't trust 'em with it.
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Gaius Marius posted:Constantinoplian Michigan is cursed as hell. Rome in Nebraska is however perfect.
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Jazerus posted:cis-alpine montana, trans-alpine montana cis-rockine and trans-rockine Edgar Allen Ho posted:I understand how oceans mediate the climate but nevertheless it still breaks my brain when I remember (of places I lived) NYC and Toulouse are almost the same latitude. One is swelter/freeze/swelter/freeze and one is balmy permaspring. Up til I was like 15 I had this very passive delusion that the cities that were most prominent in my brain for different regions were all at roughly the same latitude, by which I mean that I thought of NYC, London, and Tokyo as all being at roughly the same latitude and thus with pretty similar climates. Then at 15 I did an exchange trip to Japan during the summer and learned very very directly that Tokyo's latitude is more like Savannah than New York. Edgar Allen Ho posted:True, behind the façade of republicanism was an entrenched aristocracy, their wealth fueled by military adventures, slavery, resource exploitation, and a freudian fascination with big white columns... but the similarities don't end there! Plato's perfect government.
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I live at roughly the same latitude as southern Greenland, and we've had several days of +30 degrees Celsius this summer, and hitting -30 degrees Celsius in the winter is not too rare.
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My grandpa once quizzed me. "Nessus! What major Old World city is on the same latitude as Houston?" I thought about it while sweating my genitalia off and guessed, based on vague map memories, "Cairo?" "Yeah!"
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Your grandpa owns. Also doesn't feel like that much coincidence there's a city in the US called Memphis.
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Well, these pages certainly were.. something. Clue a noob in, who is Agesilaus? E: wow okay they got banned a fair bit back. Sorry for necroposting, but still curious. If they got a smiley made of their smugness, there's got to be a good story there.
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Nessus posted:My grandpa once quizzed me. "Nessus! What major Old World city is on the same latitude as Houston?" Not bad for a puppeteer
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Tias posted:Well, these pages certainly were.. something. Clue a noob in, who is Agesilaus? They came around in the halcyon days of like, 2013 and were proto-chuddy about how the(ir nonsensical idea of) ancients were the perfect society vs decadent moderners. Complete with plenty of "I would definitely be a spartiate or a consul, not some slave, this is self-evident"
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A very one the nose description. Also I love the term proto-chud lol
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:They came around in the halcyon days of like, 2013 and were proto-chuddy about how the(ir nonsensical idea of) ancients were the perfect society vs decadent moderners. Complete with plenty of "I would definitely be a spartiate or a consul, not some slave, this is self-evident"
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Zereth posted:In this very thread, as I recall. Yes, most definitely. Why their rereg got identified immediately.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Your grandpa owns. Funnily, Memphis TN is north of Memphis, Egypt. It's about the same longitude as Gibraltar. This probably helps explains why the South is hot as balls. Edgar Allen Ho posted:They came around in the halcyon days of like, 2013 and were proto-chuddy about how the(ir nonsensical idea of) ancients were the perfect society vs decadent moderners. Complete with plenty of "I would definitely be a spartiate or a consul, not some slave, this is self-evident"
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Yeah there was a big Egypt thing in the early 1800s in the wake of Napoleon's expedition.
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now that I think about it, I do wonder how the ottomans managed to broadly stay out of the french revolutionary and napoleonic wars, when france was actively attacking them in egypt and syria I've also wondered why they weren't explicitly included in the concert of europe given how important they were to the balance of power. I mean it's not exactly a mystery since they weren't a victorious power or france (and they were muslim), but it feels like the congress of vienna hosed up there a bit, and in the end ottoman disintegration was one of sparks leading to the eventual failure of the congress. fake edit: I'll probably just read this paper which someone published on this exact question https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/136/583/1450/6516692
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Also there's a big huge river flowing through that area so the idea of naming cities after Egyptian ones must have been appealing; there's also a Cairo founded about the same time.
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cheetah7071 posted:now that I think about it, I do wonder how the ottomans managed to broadly stay out of the french revolutionary and napoleonic wars, when france was actively attacking them in egypt and syria The Ottoman Empire as a thing didn't really exist in the early 19th century. Like, everyone pretended it did because it was more of a pain in the rear end than to actually point out it didn't, but it wasn't like they could really *do" anything if mainland European powers went after their periphery. Should be noted that the Ottomans power was always based primarily in Europe, that's where the janissaries were recruited and the Balkans remained part of the empire into the 20th century.
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Turning the Memphis pyramid into a Bass Pro Shop is one of the greatest crimes of the modern south. You see that thing as you cross the Mississippi. Why is it not something worthwhile?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Turning the Memphis pyramid into a Bass Pro Shop is one of the greatest crimes of the modern south. You see that thing as you cross the Mississippi. Why is it not something worthwhile?
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MikeCrotch posted:The Ottoman Empire as a thing didn't really exist in the early 19th century. Like, everyone pretended it did because it was more of a pain in the rear end than to actually point out it didn't, but it wasn't like they could really *do" anything if mainland European powers went after their periphery. Yeah but preserving the balance of power by protecting small or weak states from predation by their neighbors was the whole point of the congress. If the entirety of the ottoman periphery was up for grabs, it feels even weirder that they weren't included
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MikeCrotch posted:Should be noted that the Ottomans power was always based primarily in Europe, that's where the janissaries were recruited and the Balkans remained part of the empire into the 20th century.
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There were at least two attempts by Ottoman Sultans to move the Imperial Capitol to the Middle East and de-emphasize Europe, once by Osman II in the 17th century (he was assassinated over this and his plan to dissolve the Janissary corps, by said Janissaries), and again later by another Sultan whose name I forget. By the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire had become really based around Istanbul, and the parts of the empire not nearby Istanbul were often treated as an afterthought. If we lived in the alternate world where Osman II or the other guy had succeeded and set up a new capitol in Damascus, the Ottomans might have been a lot more concerned about European encroachment in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Turning the Memphis pyramid into a Bass Pro Shop is one of the greatest crimes of the modern south. You see that thing as you cross the Mississippi. Why is it not something worthwhile? Why are you disrespecting bass pro shops like this
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Bass Pro Shop owns dude. Much better to idolize hunting and fishing gear then some old dead guy
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