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HighClassSwankyTime posted:Subway maps kick rear end. Hey everyone remember that Glasgow has a subway too  
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Xander77 posted:Most of Russia is "Traditional and Tribal"? Well... that's true, but not in a religious sense, I don't think. Those areas of Russia and greenland are still mostly inhabited by traditional inuit peoples.
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Feb 18, 2013 18:54
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Kurtofan posted:
Nice to see Brittany fitting in so well with their Greater British prude brethren.
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Apr 16, 2013 22:13
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Economist map showing UK constituencies as equal size to better depict the geographical party split which isn't visible on regular party mapping. http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/04/mapping-britain
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Apr 21, 2013 01:08
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Dusseldorf posted:I'm amazed that someone finally figured out how to make a population representative map that didn't look like a malignant tumor. Also why does the map leave off the northern Irish? I'd assume because NI doesn't conform to the Labour/Conservative/Liberal split which occurs on the mainland. It has lots of its own smaller parties. twoot fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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menino posted:I do remember reading that the Hutus and Tutsis were originally the same ethnic group but one group herded while the other farmed, and that eventually there existed a small distinction that the colonizers took and exploited. Am I off on this? Did anyone else read this? I think it may have been a War Nerd column, and he tends to get over his head when he writes about Africa. They were separate tribes beforehand, but you couldn't tell them apart afaik. Belgian colonists started separating the people into the two groups based off of physical appearance mostly. One group was made to be short in stature, round face, flat nose. The other was tall in stature, angular face, long pointed nose. I can't remember which was which though. The Tall group was elevated into positions of power within the colonial regime, the colonists saw them as being closer to themselves, and the other group was restricted to being farmers/peasants and other such stuff. The Nazis later used the same techniques to identify Jews by their appearance.
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Aug 28, 2013 23:09
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boblemoche posted:
Weird. I spent a good few summers in the south-west of France and every bakery called it a pain-au-chocolat.
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Oct 1, 2013 13:08
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http://www.doctorwho.tv/watch-the-day-of-the-doctor/ Contains an embedded googlemap showing all of the locations where the Doctor Who 50th aniversary special will be shown in cinemas. What I find interesting is the lack of showings in France/Belgium/Netherlands, but a bunch of showings over Russia and South America.
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Nov 22, 2013 01:16
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Sadly I'm willing to bet a decent amount of Americans wouldn't do much better than this. They didn't. http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/americans-try-to-place-european-countries-on-a-map    
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Nov 27, 2013 21:41
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 I'm a West of Scotland californian apparently.
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duckmaster posted:Interesting - a google search revealed it was mixed with coffee during the Second World War in Britain to make rations last longer. Also coffee consumption in Britain is still overwhelmingly of the instant variety, which is another leftover of the war as it was the instant coffee sachets of American troops stationed here which started it. BBC story
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