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One of my favorites, the Belgian enclave of Baarle-Nassua which is in the Nertherlands. And then the towns of Derby Line, USA and Stanstead, Canada  Also, some pics from the ground.  Thanks Bush for starting this and thanks Obama for continuing this poo poo. 
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Abel Wingnut posted:Is Turkey part of China there? I have no clue, that map is crazy without the End Times prophecy.  Also, I don't know if horribly jingoistic video games are appropriate for this thread. 
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I thought the Emperor banned the ships because he wanted to differentiate himself from his predecessor as it was apparently an uneasy transition. Also, I wonder how much Zheng He's death had to do with the decline of China's interest in exploration.
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Feb 14, 2013 03:26
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What kind of loving logic is that? "The electoral college sucks, lets redraw every state instead of just getting rid of it!" It takes a special kind of idiocy to jump to that conclusion.
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Feb 14, 2013 17:24
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Mister Adequate posted:I'm sorry, a bunch of people in this thread seem to be confusing that awesome proposal for redrawing US State borders with a terrible one. You literally don't see a problem with Fairbanks and Olypmia being in the same state despite being 2479.67 kilometers away from each other with a sovereign nation between them, I don't know what to tell you. Also, the idea of destroying historical state lines in order to maintain the electoral college of all things is laughable. Honestly, this map would be more effective. 
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Feb 14, 2013 18:43
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Vegetable posted:How are any of these railway maps "politically loaded"? Idiot George Will thinks that they're socialist Warning, links to Daily Beast George Will posted:the real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism. Funny enough, Paul Krugman saw him on an Amtrak train later. Freudian posted:Ask a GM lobbyist. That too, don't forget the GM streetcar conspiracy which was actually proven to have happened and led to a fine of $1.
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Feb 14, 2013 19:12
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Mister Adequate posted:
Sorry, I need to remember people still make jokes here. It's easier to rename a state Throgs Neck anyway.
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Squalid posted:Yet another thread falls victim to the scourge of railway maps Well it time to post the map that ends the thread. 
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Feb 14, 2013 21:27
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Red_Mage posted:
I'm guessing that's Nigeria in Africa, right?
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Feb 16, 2013 00:39
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I didn't know way-west Pennsylvania called it pop. So would those be Beer and Pop distributors instead of Beer and Soda distributors?
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Feb 16, 2013 17:31
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Koramei posted:I'd never been so disturbed when I realised that the Aral Sea is basically ... gone. For all the talk of climate change it still feels like a distant problem, and then I realised that something I'd taken for granted in maps is no longer there, and it all disappeared in just a few decades. It weirds me out whenever I see a map of the region now. To play devil's advocate, the Aral Sea was especially destroyed by a series of poorly built canals. It's actually a good case of poorly thought-out geo-engineering for the plan of squeezing out some money (Soviet export of cotton).
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Mar 7, 2013 20:25
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I think "most airports" isn't really a negative, it's not like Alaska is a flat state that you can just walk or drive everything to. Also, that's nothing compared to my state's "Most dams in need of repair". I mean, it's not like Pennsylvania has a notable history of drat failures.
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Mar 18, 2013 07:55
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Also I need to question the use solely of e-harmnoy, eschewing other sites like match, chemistry, christian mingle, j-date, and apps like grindr.
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Mar 23, 2013 14:13
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twoday posted:
I love how there's still that Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
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fermun posted:I'm cross-posting this from the Nuclear Weapons Thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3543097 It's just that they're using Hiroshima in some unspecified manner when concerned with the burn rate of a city. The problem is that a lot of Hiroshima was a lot more combustible than most cities owing to Japanese building construction at the time, but since they don't go into to much detail it's inconclusive. I'm sure factored that in, but still.
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Apr 10, 2013 05:03
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Don't forget this classic: Richard Dawkins posted:Support Christian missions in Africa? No, but . . . http://old.richarddawkins.net/discussions/624093-support-christian-missions-in-africa-no-but
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Apr 15, 2013 01:18
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The other reason is that while East and West Germany used different standards (SECAM and PAL respectively), they could still be received easily with black and white broadcasts and eventually decoders for PAL to SECAM were manufactured and eventually even built into standard on East German television. On the other hand South Korea (Along with Japan, Taiwan, the Philipines, and North America at least) used NTSC (switched to ATSC four months ago) while North Korea uses PAL.
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Apr 21, 2013 05:21
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As someone who lives in Pennsylvania I call loving bullshit.
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May 17, 2013 02:47
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That map is also misleading as it doesn't say anything about super markets that can sell beer and wine or about states like PA where you have to buy beer by the case in Beer Distributors.
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May 17, 2013 17:43
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The term Hoagie's from Philadelphia, and has a lot of theories of it's origin. The most prominent theory is that they were called that because of the consumption of the previously unnamed sandwiches at the shipyards on Hog Island, which currently is the home of Philadelphia International Airport. Other theories involve peddlers called "hokey-pokey men" making one one night, it was scaps for people "on the hoke" and the Italians called it hoagies, it was a reference to the Irish shipbuilders (Hogans), refered to the pork on the sandwhiches, or my personal favorite it was the shorthand for "honky sandwich" because white people at them. EDIT: I'm tired and just wrote way too much about a loving sandwich.
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Jun 9, 2013 08:36
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I know some of the counties in Pennsylvania let towns and Burroughs decide to allow the sale of alcohol or not. That's why there's a lot of yellows in the state.
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Jun 10, 2013 06:29
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Mister Adequate posted:Something to throw out when Hilary Clinton runs in 2016 and the media inevitably say "Hurp is Mrca ready for a female President?" Yeah, but on the other hand it's Hilary Clinton.
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computer parts posted:The US should be Red because it doesn't have a parliament. A lot of countries don't by that narrow definition. Japan? Diet China? National People's Congress Mexico? Congress of the Union Or you could use the other meaning as "any legislative body" and not simply something from the Westminster system.
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Jun 18, 2013 13:50
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computer parts posted:It's like the difference between Parliament and the EU legislature. Read a dictionary and find out that there's more than one definition for words already, jeez.
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Jun 18, 2013 21:18
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Guavanaut posted:The US adopted the metric system in 1875 More specifically it has been a legal form of measurements since 1866 and the US was one of the 17 original signers and ratifiers of the Metre Convention. The US just then never got rid of the USCS. The USCS in fact is now measured officially in terms of the SI but it's not illegal so it's still around unlike other countries which actively outlawed non-metric systems.
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Jun 19, 2013 12:56
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. They just didn't do anything with it.
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System Metternich posted:Eurasiatic (generally not accepted, even though the media seem to love the idea for some reason. Greenberg thought Amerind to be its closest realtive, but never mapped out a new phylum connecting the two. Some especially daring linguists have done so, calling the result "Nostratic" which is accepted even less.) Man that one is lazy, but I can see how it makes sense since German is just like Manchu and Japanese is so similar to Gaelic.
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Jun 25, 2013 23:00
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As long as we're posting lovely bigoted parodies:
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Jun 29, 2013 20:30
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PittTheElder posted:Is that supposed to be Europe ruled by an inexplicably undefeated Napoleon? Reverse image looking and some digging leads to a tome of rambling called Look to the West.
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Jul 6, 2013 12:33
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Water resources in the near future are going to be the most painful thing in American history and probably will destroy the political structure in this nation.
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Jul 17, 2013 13:38
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Badger of Basra posted:What are the red spots? Uranium Mines
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Jul 25, 2013 01:17
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Wikipedia brings us this hypothetical "European super grid": Can't see any problems with literally chaining North Africa to Europe.
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Jul 31, 2013 08:53
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Killer robot posted:This is one of the most perfect summations of how "The South" for so many is a magic phrase that lets them suspend their normally stated principles and say that, no, poverty really is a moral failing. I don't know, it could be a map about why you should support deposing the corrupt governments of the South.
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computer parts posted:Except that institutional discrimination of black people is a national problem and there are Northern / non-southern states that have done just as terrible things in the last few years (Rodney King, Stop & Frisk, Michigan's emergency manager system, etc). Well I already made a joke about wiping the US out earlier in the thread, sorry for trying to make a light heated joke about how loving awful this goddamned country is, person who freaked out over the word 'parliament'.
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Aug 1, 2013 18:13
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That world sports map is bad because they don't give percentages of popularity for sports or how the hell they even came to those conclusions.
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Aug 8, 2013 23:08
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Ras Het posted:What's with "none" in Mauritania and UAE? No doubt some horrible reason... It's not Mauritania, it's Western Sahara which doesn't officially have anything when it comes to anything on most maps. As for the U.A.E., it's because the legislature is made up of 40 members, half of whom are selected by the seven Emirs and the other half, only advisors, who are picked from an electoral college. In effect, there's no suffrage.
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Phlegmish posted:Wow, I've never met anyone who felt strongly about daylight saving time. At least they made the trains run on DST time 
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