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Patter Song posted:Are there maps of this nature for time periods other than the first 15 years of the 20th century? Now that you mention it, the run-up to WWI seems to have been one of the most mapped. Not only are there a billion period maps, but now and then we get a new one when an author/illustrator uses the setting... like that one Keith Thompson map from "Leviathan". It's getting a little dull, honestly.
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This may be sort of an odd question, and I wasn't sure which of the threads I lurk this was best for, but here goes: Obviously, the word "United" is very popular for geopolitical nomenclature. United Nations, United States, Estados Unidos Mexicanos, United Kingdom, and United Arab Emirates* to name a few. (*I don't know Arabic, so that may be an exonym?) Anyhow, when did that word first come into popular use and why? Did it have its roots in a document? I'm trying to google around to figure it out but I'm curious what yalls think.
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Antwan3K posted:I'd say the United Provinces (Dutch republic), which served as an important inspiration for (some of) the founding fathers. Torrannor posted:The earliest state I know using "united" were the United Provinces, i.e. the Dutch Republic. Thank you! I'm interested in where the concept of political union--with the resultant amalgams explicitly named United--was popularized. There seem to be a lot of Union treaties signed in Dutch history, so maybe it's a Dutch thing?
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Carbon dioxide posted:
Mmm, a nice juicy post. This is the best thread, I sincerely thought my question was stupid pattern-seeking but you guys are still able to make reams of interesting info out of it.
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Guavanaut posted:What's on the big flat square bits after you cross the Those lands are angelblighted, nothing can survive the Power of His Glory
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icantfindaname posted:
Where does one find clay, ore, and timber?
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As a lurker on this thread I'd like to say thank you, this was interesting/useful to me. Also, as a lurker, this temperature conversation is really long.
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Grevling posted:Most of them are fairly reasonable to the point where you can see what the translator was thinking. Only a few or really off, like Stoned which you pointed out, but mostly they're pretty clever. It's funny and that's all that matters. I dunno, makes sense to me. If it's a rock farm, it's probably a stoned field.
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I was curious, the only thing I found that seems possible is a musician named Ronny had a chart-topping hit in Germany, 1965 called "kleine Annabelle".
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Plinkey posted:Liberia's countys has the best 'some kid made this in mspaint' flags. Is Lofa's flag a loofah?
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FreudianSlippers posted:This is often shortened to "Kanar" 
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tractor fanatic posted:Buffalo and Rochester are on a Great Lake, which is something Oh, is that what I've been smelling all these years?
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I'm up there in Hyphenburg, to the south of Lager Laken, which I guess is Buffalo or Rochester or something? Does anyone know what Hyphenburg is referencing? Edit: ^ ^ Ach guten tag fellow Hyphenburger!
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Letmebefrank posted:
Are the lakes not very nice there? Also I'm so used to "paska" and words like it being about Easter and its associated breads that this gloss amuses me to no end.
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Feb 12, 2019 20:40
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I'm fine with left and identifying a left facing me, but mirrors gently caress my brain right up. I have hosed my beard symmetry hard before due to that little mind problem.
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Peanut Butler posted:that makes me think of The City and The City, a Mieville story about two different nations superimposed in the same city, each ignoring the others presence through heavy conditioning for fear of breaking the law I definitely want to check that book out, it sounds awesome.
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It does look a bit like a squatting butt blasting poo poo
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Bloodnose posted:It's actually a corpse with rice under it. That's how I feel after I take a poo poo, too. LMAO look at this variant though, subtle
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Wegmans is absolutely trouncing Obelisk Market, you see their ziggurats all over the place now
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Kamrat posted:I can understand not cleaning yourself after pissing and sex during those times, but pooping? *bawdy Brian Blessed laugh* It crusts off, my friend!!! It crusts off!
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So who named the Gulf of Hate and related bodies of water? Or are they words of a Prussian-Turconic-Americanese pidgin dialect, which don't mean what their English analogues suggest? Fascinating world, here.
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Kamrat posted:I like the Waterworld setting even if it is unrealistic, I wish more post apocalyptic movies would play around with the setting like that. I loved waterworld
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Feb 27, 2021 02:39
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CommonShore posted:My friend's parents believed that Catholics are literally vampires because they literally drink blood. That explains why the holy water fonts were always empty at my church
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Feb 27, 2021 18:01
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Grape posted:They're the same island, just in different time streams. I stay away from temporal anomalies like Jersey and Guernsey; time travel is just not my bailiwick
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Mar 7, 2021 18:57
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Turkish coffee and Turkish tea are both delicious so I'd be hard-pressed to choose if I were Turkish. Luckily I'm American so they're both poo poo and I just drink coffee out of habit
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That's some big Civ energy. *spams great artists at the border*
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May 24, 2021 13:42
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"Step Zone" is my competition step team's name
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May 31, 2021 18:17
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My favorite word for butterflies is "vlinders"
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"No no lots of people had colonies there but England got all that Yeah there were Dutch and Swedes and everything wish you'd been there"
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Well obviously we're pumping the water into cisterns! How many cisterns could that take?
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So just criss-cross it with canals, I'm sure that's just as good as an ocean
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BonHair posted:That's hardly a unique way to die What if unique up on the victim
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Aug 22, 2021 14:38
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An ironic outcome for the man who tries to cheat death
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Aug 23, 2021 02:34
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Phlegmish posted:They were much like us, there is a reason they are seen as one of the main progenitors of Western civilization. Have you seen their bathroom graffiti? Now I kind of want to call Mar-a-Lago "Trumpania lmao"
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Sep 9, 2021 13:27
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If you can plant flowering trees that burst scarlet red across the whole US on May 1st I'm in
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Doesnøt the US have labour day specifically to not acknowledge May 1st? That's what I've always figured, that it was a "subtle" way of breaking off US labor from the global labor movement and treating it as its own problem to be crushed underfoot. I used to push back really hard on Fake Labor Day and go in on May 1st but now I'm like two days for Labor isn't enough anyways, labor should have every day, and also every community and all the money
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I went to church with sleepover friends. ...other peoples' churches were always very different. I remember being weirded out that my one friend went to a church where all the wood was painted, while my church had all unpainted wood. Madness!
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Guavanaut posted:Other times it spells 'Denswe' but that's not a country. The Glorious People's Cleromantic Autocracy of Denswe formally rebukes the esteemed Guavanauts' insulting pronouncements, and furthermore we invite all and sundry to enjoy our therapeutic hot tar beaches and randomly-selected laws
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The African one seems weird to me. As they say, "many maps on one site"
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It's not so hard, it's a broad bean
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