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That redrawn Middle East map is automatically poo poo because it has a Kurdistan, a Baluchistan, but no Pashtunistan. Without going into any complexities about the lines of borders that on its face automatically discounts the thing. Looks like even when someone gets to just crap all over a phoney map with their ideas of compact nation-states, the Pashtuns still get the shaft. Does the author just imagine that the redrawn Afghanistan would be basically a Pashtun state? Gotta gently caress over a lot of people for that to happen in their personal concept of Afghanistan.
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Pick yourself up out of the muck and mire of transit maps and flagchat and educate yourself on the littlest border dispute in US history The Wedge This is a tale of how a tiny triangular piece of land became a disputed zone from colonial times all the way up to the 1920's.  If you drive through the area on 896, you'll pass by this local establishment.  Best picture I could find really.
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ekuNNN posted:Possibly "I don't let my kids drink soda"?
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SombreroAgnew posted:Alternate historychat: The new flagchat? Time will tell.
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Strudel Man posted:That seems like a bizarrely strong reaction. It's the little things, like how in everybody's wacky alternate history maps the Italians still somehow get South Tyrol. Here's an actual contribution. It's a map of all the countries that have been visited by a US president. Not sure how current it is. 
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Feb 18, 2013 21:31
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It's kind of a dumb map because it's sitting and former presidents.
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Feb 19, 2013 00:28
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I know the HRE has been posted, but it bears repeating just how incredibly complex and convoluted the territories which comprised it were. Here is a map of Further Austria, a collective name for the states under direct control of Austria in SW Germany, after 1648. It's doubly relevant because it pertains to both stupid shaped borders chat and Swiss chat. 
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Feb 22, 2013 02:48
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Look, here is a map. It is politically loaded. 
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Mar 5, 2013 23:16
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Frostwerks posted:Good god Delaware is the most improved name.
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Lawman 0 posted:Thats... kinda metal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderkill_River edit Drains into the Delaware Bay just north of Slaughter Beach.
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prefect posted:Ile de France seems awfully large. And how come Sweden/Norway/Finland don't get broken up at all?
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twoday posted:"Kill" is a 17th century Dutch word for a stream or small river, and was commonly used in areas of North America colonized by the Dutch, and has been preserved in names like the Catskills of upstate New York, or around Staten Island:
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DarkCrawler posted:Hahaha at Delaware having the least number of national parks. No poo poo, it's loving tiny!
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Killer robot posted:It's almost as shocking as an enormous state with a scattered population and few roads having a lot of airports. How awful that all those small isolated towns have little airstrips connecting them to the world.
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Isn't GDP a little 20th century?
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It's in the Colorado Constitution. All county-level health departments report directly to a state Board of Tourism.
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Hitch posted:What is happening in Kentucky with cancer?!
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Guavanaut posted:All of China, all of Mongolia, and then some, at least according to some claims. 1. The Qing are overthrown by the great revolution of 1911 2. Sun Yat-Sen's successor, Chiang Kai-Shek, is driven off the mainland by godless Communist bandits 3. The legitimate government of China waits in the wings off the mainland on a small and insignificant island that may make a good base for reconquest Yes, there have been a lot of boundary changes since 1911, but none of them have ever been acknowledged by the legitimate and real government of the great Republic of China.
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I thought Mauretania was pretty safe.
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With open and legal slavery a country can still be safe for tourists to visit, though. Not morally right of course.
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Are there kidnappings in Mauretania? Active terrorist bombings of civilians in the capital? Endemic crime, both organized and unorganized? Some sort of sputtering rebellion? I don't mean to harp on this, I just don't see why the Canucks rated it so badly. I know all about the awful slavery and how horrible a country it is, I'm still just not seeing the danger to your average fat Canadian with a fanny pack and a straw hat and zinc oxide on their nose. I'm very curious and would like to learn. edit Kassad posted:Besides the slavery, there have been several cases of foreigners getting kidnapped and held for ransom by bandits or islamist groups.
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Angiepants posted:The end result of the Berlin Conference. I'm particularly fond of the Congo Pedicle 
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It was only a month and a half later that neutral Iran would be conquered by an unprovoked Anglo-Soviet invasion, it's ruler packed off to British exile, and its territory partitioned.
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I have a question about maps that is politically-loaded, but not a map to share. So in the 1600's/1700's Connecticut and Pennsylvania had conflicting land claims about certain territory, especially the Wyoming Valley. The Royal government sides with Connecticut in the early 1770's and this decision stands until it is overturned about 10 years later by the Continental Congress. Why then do all maps of the American Revolutionary War show that area as part of Pennsylvania? It was Connecticut until 1782.
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Itious posted:It still doesn't meet the dreams of Hungarian nationalists, but Hungary practically doubled in size thanks to the two Vienna awards which gave it large swathes of Romania and Czechoslovakia as well as land transferred to it during the war 1. Stalin wanted it 2. Western Allies didn't give a poo poo
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A Buttery Pastry posted:3. Majority Ukrainian. A Buttery Pastry posted:He was concerned about being more Russian than the Russians though. But really, does it matter why he did it? There's really no reason why Carpatian Ruthenia should be part of Czechoslovakia, and plenty of reason for it to be part of the Ukraine.
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With my last two posts, I was trying to communicate two things, in the context of an already-begun discussion about Hungarian national frontiers. Post #1. Traditional Western views of WW2 at their simplest trace the beginnings of the conflict to Munich and "appeasement", when Western powers allowed the Third Reich to annex Czech territory. This is seen as wrong. However, these same powers allowed the USSR to annex Czech territory after the war. This is either not paid any attention to at all or handwaved away. Post #2. It's wrong to allow murderous dictators to decide the borders of other countries.
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You're talking about self-determination, which is actually one of the reasons behind the existence of Czechoslovakia in the first place. Yes, self-determination does open up many cans of worms but I don't think it's ever truly been applied. Post-WW1 selective application of the principle of self-determination practically resulted in the ignorance of the will of several groups of people (mostly Germans or Hungarians) because the victors of that war really loving just vindictively wanted these people to suffer, and in the attempted subordination of certain nationalities to the will of other "good" ones. Like Croats to Serbs or Slovaks to Czechs. All that really happened was that I tried to throw in a little-known historical fact into a discussion, and then got my hackles up because I believed someone was defending one of Stalin's horrible landgrabs.
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Look, that Chinese claim line is so ridiculous, it has it's own special name! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dotted_line
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Lord Hydronium posted:During the World War II equivalent. The Confederacy annexes Kentucky and Houston, and a few other bits of land, sending the two countries into war again. I'm sad I just typed all that out.
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I'm sorry, it's actually "Featherston", I just wanted to make a joke to make myself feel better about knowing all that off the top of my head.
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Ofaloaf posted:In the Southern Victory series, it's remnants of the Republicans who become socialists (something about the party imploding and an elderly and defeated Abe Lincoln reading Marx), while the Democrats maintain a more conservative role-- that story's Theodore Roosevelt is a Democrat, if memory serves, while Al Smith is a Socialist Party member and the socialists control the urban machines. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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foobardog posted:The real signifying factor is the different barbecue styles that tear the state apart. edit: chopped with slaw, lunch and dinner. Cheerwine only once, in Lexington. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Lord Hydronium posted:On that note, this seems politically loaded: 
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah, take that you loving palefaces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Serbian_Krajina
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Has anyone ever read Europe by Norman Davies? Lot of fun maps in there. 
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Yeah direct contact between the Chinese and the Romans was definitely a thing. I have noticed in the Ask/Tell thread about Roman history that for some reason, a lot of people who post on the Something Awful Forums have a really really special and particular interest in learning about China-Ancient Rome contacts. I've wondered why that is for months now and I've come up completely empty as to a reason.
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I love Boston as the capital city of glorious New England. It's like a map from an alternate secession happened after the Hartford Convention world. Wherein CT pissed everybody off somehow.
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There were plenty of Greeks in Anatolia, and they all got kicked out in the early 20's. A short history of the 20th century: many many people die to delineate a boundary on a map, then many many more die turning that invisible line into an actual divider of peoples.
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I can't see any scenario where the Chinese get Tuva back.
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