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Mister Adequate posted:Who the hell is that mauve-ish country in Europe? Slovenia? Germany? Seems to be Germany  http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?url=cmm/2011/maps/casualties.html
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Mister Adequate posted:Ah thanks for that. Must be old WW2 munitions or something. Yep, checked their source and they all were result of a single incident http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2010/06/20106213138298153.html
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Riso posted:Shouldn't Austria be green for allowing civil unions (marriage in all but name)? Lacking adoption, no hate-crime law etc. http://www.ilga-europe.org/media_library/ilga_europe/publications/reports_and_other_publications/rainbow_map_2013/index
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PrinceRandom posted:Wait, isn't Hungarian supposed to be a Uralic Language? The Atlas I was reading had it at least grouped with Finnish... Yep.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages Most of those are dying languages, only Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian have more than a million speakers. Proto-Hungarian and Finnic languages separated around 3000 years ago so there's very little common nowadays.
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Jun 27, 2013 01:10
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Peanut President posted:It took me a minute to figure out this map was upside down. South is up. It's funny how even heavily abstracted maps like that can make me nauseous when they are upside down.
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Purno posted:Another sports map. This map shows for each country the sport in which its Mens National Team has the highest ranking. It's probably outdated already (made in early June) and not at all accurate concerning popularity but it's still kind of interesting. I like how Mongolia has ice hockey despite being one of the worst countries that bothers to participate in international competitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHF_World_Ranking
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They are overstating. Just call it A Tiny Bit Larger Netherlands.
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Patter Song posted:
Well, at least South America is better than I expected.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Still strange to think that all that land was owned by tiny little Belgium. *Belgian
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TheBalor posted:Is it true that the Scots were told they'd be welcome with open arms, though? Seems rather silly that Scotland could be let in, but Estonia couldn't. Scotland has tons of famous people and cool national gimmicks, Estonia is a former Soviet state with a notable Russian minority. I tried to write more serious answer but nah, basically Cool Countries Club doesn't want to stain the brand. Next we'd have to accept Latvia and Lithuania, ack!
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Jan 21, 2014 05:23
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Speaking of genes, have some gene maps(?).  Finland used to be quite isolated. Kuusamo is located in sparsely populated NE Finland and has relatively large amount of genetical diseases (nothing Lovecraftian though). I've read that the researchers love Finland because people haven't mixed a lot and there's good records for several centuries.
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Shbobdb posted:Holy gently caress that poo poo is awesome! Where did you find that? It's so endlessly fascinating. That's so really cool. First is from New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/science/13visual.html?_r=0 Also note that those are still very close and someone from Japan or Nigeria would be off the charts.
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Freedom of the press 2014 (Reporters without borders) :namibia:
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Feb 15, 2014 20:28
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Next please explain why Nigeria is so crowded. e. the map in question 
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computer parts posted:It looks like this was proposed during the interwar period as well. Maybe it was proposed by Germans.
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Redeye Flight posted:I think so. The dots must represent the furthest-from points for various landmasses, with the blue one being the point in the ocean furthest from any land. So that's why Neil Gaiman used those coordinates for R'lyeh. http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu Kennel fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Local paper had an article about Finland's history in maps. Cladius Clavus (1427) - This wasn't included but it's apparently the oldest map that mentions Fin(d)land (center-right)  Hartmann Schedel (1493)  Jacob Ziegler (1532)  Olaus Magnus (1539) - You've seen this one before.  Joan Blaeu (1662) 
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Didn't even think about it but the last map lacks St. Petersburg which was founded in 1703. A big reason why those eastern areas aren't part of modern Finland.
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quote:Facebook sports maps Is this kind of data somehow publicly available so I could try to make one for my own country?
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XMNN posted:I agree, if the international community wanted to say the referendum was illegitimate or that fraud occurred they should really have sent some observers in or something. Any idea about the green stuff?
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Man, it's crazy how quickly LA exploded. It's quite crazy how back in 1850 California had a population of 93,000. And in 1890 there was 50,000 people in LA.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:
Don't quote me but I'm pretty sure that while ago the policy became "hotlinking sites that are constantly getting huge traffic is accepted".
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May 8, 2014 23:18
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We're not allowed to leech images, right? or is it okay if it's Wikipedia?
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Farecoal posted:Apparently people first migrated to Madagascar all the way from Indonesia rather than from Africa. And just ~2000 years ago.
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May 17, 2014 01:06
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Torrannor posted:Finally! A map where the Scandinavians look bad. You are found out, you coffee addicted people. That's not a bad thing, you silly person! *Drinking coffee right now* Here's a map to support our smugness:  (click and scroll down for interactivity)
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm really surprised the Finnish one (whatever it is) isn't facing East Proper heraldic symbols always face left (well not always but it's the default). Darth Various posted:It gets points for creativity though. Everything else is cross, cross, eagle with a cross, cross... CAVEMAN RIDING A FUGGIN' BEAR! 
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Maybe just an oversight? Or maybe their main enemy is the muslimbögs of Sweden 
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Count Roland posted:Is there a name for this symbol? It is pretty neat/funny. Coat of arms of Lapua municipality. Blazon: "On golden field a black, walking, red-armoured bear, rode by a man dressed up in blue belted dress, trousers and laced shoes, holding in his right hand black mace raised for a hit."
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Baronjutter posted:Russians drink a LOT of tea. Every household will have a samovar of some sort. They even have a wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_tea_culture
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Lots of historical maps: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_the_world_showing_history
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Torrannor posted:I wonder what kind of folk religion they have in Iceland, I thought they were pretty much 100% European stock. Old Norse religion? "From the 1970s, there has been a revival of Norse paganism in Iceland. As of 2014, the Ásatrúarfélagið had 2382 registered members, corresponding to 0.7% of the total population." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Iceland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81satr%C3%BAarf%C3%A9lagi%C3%B0
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Rumda posted:also you can Count them  "The Grenville Diptych was produced for Richard Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Chandos the son of the first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos between 1822 and 1839. The diptych shows 719 quarterings of the family. The left hand panel of the diptych lists the quarterings. These include ten variations of the English Royal arms, the arms of Spencer, De Clare, Valence, Mowbray, Mortimer, and De Grey, among others. This image is in the public domain."
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Mu Cow posted:I find this flag utterly amazing. It's like a piece of modern art. It's ugly as hell, but I can't help but appreciate it. Wikipedia claims that the design is based on an old photo of the flag that used to fly over Fort Whoop-Up, but it looks pretty different. Hah, I was going to say that it looks like someone untalented was trying to recreate a flag based on extremely poor source material and turns out that's exactly what it was.
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Falukorv posted:
I've always found this silly because it's facing right and therefore running away from the battle.
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Peanut President posted:Don't even need to be the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Israel is considered white people. For example they play in UEFA (Europe's soccer conference thing) whereas all their neighbors play in AFC (Asia).
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IntricoInutile posted:Business Insider loves maps. Move Poland to Asia!
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a pipe smoking dog posted:what do the different shades of green represent? The wikipedia file doesn't tell but I'm guessing the light green is Sweden ca 1300, medium ca 1500 and dark green ca 1700. Kennel fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Edible Hat posted:This map introduced me to the existence of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, but whose territory does yellow represent? The Hanseatic League? wikipedia posted:The realms of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Sword Brethren. In yellow; the conqued territories by Denmark in 1219.
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withak posted:Those red ones located in the middle of nowhere must have some interesting outliers. Hermit billionaires.
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Nordic Law sounds kind of badass (it's not).
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Something that involves sports teams from New York and Washington?
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