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lullelulle posted:And lastly a plan for Europe from 1915: Who was proposing this plan? I like that Iran gets divided up along with the Central Powers because, hey, why not? Who's that yellow, non-Turkish, non-Greek country in southern Turkey supposed to be for? Is it meant to be part of Italy's spoils?! And how come Britain takes Haifa directly when everything around it is neutral?
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Negative Entropy posted:Why was Australia the first to allow women suffrage? Is it in any way related to the fact that, in the US, frontier Western states were the first to allow women suffrage because they saw femininity as a "civilizing factor" among mostly male frontier populations? New Zealand actually had us beat by a few years. I don't think female suffrage in Australia ever really had that sort of moralising element. There might have been a bit of it early on in South Australia, but in general Australia was just pretty good when it came to suffrage rights - there was no property requirement to vote in federal elections, and secret ballots were always used. In general, Australia was about twenty to thirty years ahead of the UK when it came to voting rights. If I were to guess, I'd say the main reasons were we didn't have an established aristocracy and, since a lot of Australians came from the bottom rungs of British society, there was a lot more support for universal rights and, more importantly, the opposition had a lot less power to slow reforms. The other main factor would be that, even after federation, the Australian parliment was still sort of seen as a local government within the British Empire, not an independant state, so it could get away with being a bit more radical since it wasn't seen as being as important. Foreign policy and other issues were still pretty much de-facto run from London. And, of course, if you were aboriginal, you were still poo poo out of luck...
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ecureuilmatrix posted:...Poland??? Some of the German states did decriminalise homosexuality during the early nineteenth century, but Prussia never did, and it was recriminalized across the German Empire following German unification. Italy's interesting - before unification, a lot of Italian states had decriminalised homosexuality, but not Piedmont-Sardinia. After unification, the new Italian goverment recriminalized it across the new state... except in the south, where an exception in the legal code let it remain legal in the areas formerly ruled by the Kingdom of the Two Scillies. Then thirty years later, it was decriminalised Italy-wide anyway.
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That would be the 'non-continental loophole' of 'being an island', yes? EDIT: Beaten twice. But, seriously, what do you think a continent is?
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For the second one, if you average out the Ivory Coast and Cote d'Ivoire labels, you get the right spot...
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DrSunshine posted:Sole demesne of Horn King Zug!! Bow your head, outlander, or face retribution! It's spelled "Zog."
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Why is Libya divided into four provinces, while all of Egypt is just one?
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ekuNNN posted:
"Well, let's see... Ukraine's another former Soviet Republic, like Georgia, so it must be in... Tennessee?" 
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Finland, famous for its staunchly pro-NATO foreign policy.
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Leviathan Song posted:They also have very different ideas about gender than either the modern West or countries voting red. Katoey in Thailand for example play by very different rules. Not that's all sunshine and roses but I doubt they would be amenable to the arguments that Russians or Africans would put forth. Their culture treats these issues completely differently. Right, SE Asia isn't great on LGBT issues, but they don't have any of the religious stigmas against it that the West or Muslim world had, and didn't inherit any laws against homosexuality from their colonial overlords. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are some of the few parts of the world that have never had laws against homosexuality.
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So, it's a strong correlation as long as you discount the largest and wealthiest Catholic country as 'a special case'? Incredible!
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Titus Sardonicus posted:
So why's Morocco Africa's only green country? I can't imagine it's that much safer than, say, Namibia or Botswana... Are they maybe including disease concerns as well as personal safety?
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my dad posted:The glorious alliance of USA, People's Republic of China, and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, bravely united in supporting plucky little Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge against the dastardly communist Vietnam and its evil crusade against the Kambodian genocide has got to be one of the weirder moments of history. Cambodia was really strange bedfellows all around - at one point, the Khmer Rouge and the monarchy were allies...
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Let's just paint the Bosnian dude with a turkish sabre in TYOOL 2006 It does also have Sweden as a Viking with a horned helmet, while Malta is represented by a Knight Hospitaller, so...
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Platystemon posted:The real barrier to the colonisation of Africa was the Mountains of the Moon. I'm the helpful 'negroes' labels in south Sudan.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm also democratic 1987 Southwest Africa, which is not towards the end of a lengthy war to escape from being considered part of South Africa. Also Botswana seems to have annexed the Caprivi Strip.
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Grevling posted:Kind of looks like whoever made that map only considered the ruling classes of India to be Caucasian. When encountering more than ten Arabs, one will be an Arab Sheik, with double hitpoints and a +1 weapon.
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Badger of Basra posted:Are these parliamentary constituencies? I'm wondering if Australia has the biggest constituencies in the world (geographically). Until 2010, the two big ones in Western Australia were a single electorate - one slightly larger than Western Europe.
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Platystemon posted:
Western Sahara and Somalia I understand having no data, but why none for Guinea-Bissau?
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah a lot of street names changed after 1990 when governance of Namibia changed from Pretoria to SWAPO. The Independence Museum in Windhoek had a big section devoted to Cuba's role in the fight against apartheid and Namibia's eventual independence. Cuba and Namibia have very warm relations as a result of that history. The Independence Museum, btw, is on the former site of the big German memorial that honored the soldiers killed in the 'Hottentot Uprisings' - i.e. the Herero genocide. The memorial was the site of numerous protests against South African rule, and removing it after independence was a source of major controversy by the white minority. When I was there, I found the statue 'in storage', propped up against the wall of an old German fort - the government still hasn't worked out what to do with it.
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What's the hot, spice eating, panda infested region?
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Map already out of date; the guy awaiting confirmation as ambassador to Australia has been reassigned to South Korea. Which, admittedly, should probably be a higher priority than Australia...
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It's also far more common for countries to be suspended from the Commonwealth than to choose to terminate their association, so I suspect most responders are assuming a situation less "peacefully withdrawing" and more "being branded a pariah state", like apartheid-era South Africa, modern Zimbabwe, post-coup Fiji, etc.
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Redczar posted:And what about white smart guy? No data.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The Philippine war and subsequent colonization was a huge clusterfuck complete with waterboarding and concentration camps. And massacres! General Jacob Smith's order to kill anyone capable of bearing arms against the United States, which he would clarify meant anyone over the age of ten, caused outrage even at the time...
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Australia only just got a new ambassador from the US, after the post had been vacant for more than two years. We were supposed to get one last year, but he was reassigned at the last minute to South Korea - which, admittedly, probably is a higher priority.
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I'm most interested in New Orleans acquiring an indeterminate amount of Asian Russia.
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Weren't there plans for the British royals to evacuate to Canada in WW2? Granted, that was kind of a unique situation where they didn't have any safe havens left in Europe...
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For those wondering, based on five minutes of research, Greenland residents do have their own passports, but they're the same red as any other Danish passport. The other countries in black do seem to actually have black passports.
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At least the Koreas escaped being under the thumb of an imperial hegemon.
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Pakled posted:The Somalia thing I can understand why they'd do, but why unite the Congos? They've also reunited Sudan.
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Tei posted:Some of these are not like the others. Also why “of jerusalem”. Is this a medievalism where you send one guy to the crusades and from that point you can add that to your name? The Spanish monarchy claims the crown of Jerusalem via a rather tenuous claim by the kings of Naples dating back to the thirteenth century. Via an alternate series of claims involving the Kingdom of Cyprus, the crown of Jerusalem was also claimed by the Italian monarchy until its abolition. The fact that the Kingdom of Jerusalem has not actually existed for seven hundred years should be considered a purely academic detail when it comes to these claims.
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The only thing that can stop a bad interlocking continent-wide series of alliances with a gun is a good interlocking continent-wide series of alliances with a gun.
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The United States had already existed for thirty years when the Holy Roman Empire was finally dissolved.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:First place in the US to let women vote, the Equality state, it should have a gender neutral name. California's named after Queen Calafia, a fictional amazon queen from a sixteenth century series of adventure stories. It's basically naming a state after Conan the Barbarian.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:Here's the criteria they used. China is a lot better than the rest of the "F" countries because it doesn't ban being LGBT, but it doesn't afford anything like equal rights and advocacy is dangerous. There's some seriously misleading information on that chart. For example, Sri Lanka is listed as an 'F' grade because homosexual intercourse is illegal, and they claim results in a ten year sentence. Thing is... that's a British colonial-era law that hasn't been enforced since independence, and both major political parties consider discrimination against LGBT people as unconstitutional and have supported anti-discrimination laws. Putting the country in the same category as Saudi Arabia is absurd.
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Will we next create false maps to discuss? How proud we have become, and how blind. - Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent"
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My favorite is the Srpski Mandate Libiji, which is mostly a random chunk of the Sahara, but does have a tiny strip connecting it to the Med. Which is nice, because Serbia itself lacks a coast. I also like the various inland states in Australia, all of which probably have the combined population of a small town.
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The Maronites are by far the largest Eastern Rite Catholic Church, with about three and a half million followers. They've been in full communion with Rome since the Crusades.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I can't even figure out what most of those countries are claiming. Is Slovakia's thing the Transcarpathia region that's now in Ukraine? Are there any Czechoslovakia reunifications?
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