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The Mercator Projection's Eurocentrism and Americentrism
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General Panic posted:I presume it's someone (most likely American) wanting to do for the Middle East what Woodrow Wilson wanted to do for Europe after 1918.
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Feb 6, 2013 04:29
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I don't recall the British ever invading the Philippines, either.
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Feb 23, 2013 00:55
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lonelywurm posted:They occupied Manila and Cavite for two years during The Seven Years' War, when it was a Spanish colonial possession. Well shoot, learn something new everyday. Thanks!  Content:  The Sultan of Sulu signed an agreement with a British commercial syndicate back in Jan 1878 regarding Northern Borneo. The British interpreted the agreement as a cessation of Northern Borneo, while the Sultan of Sulu understood it to mean a lease-in-perpetuity. Every year, the Malaysian Embassy cuts a check for 5,300.00 Ringgit to the heirs of the Sultan of Sulu, as the payable amount stipulated in the agreement, which Malaysia assumed the responsibility for after the formation of that nation-state. Malaysia follows the British interpretation that the amount is a "cession" payment, while the Sultan's descendants still consider it as rent. The Philippines still maintains a claim to the area via its ties to the Sultanate of Sulu, while Malaysia disputes the validity of the claim due to the lack of desire from the people actually in Northern Borneo to fall under the sovereignty of the Philippines or the Sulu Sultanate.
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Feb 23, 2013 15:09
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Also wouldn't you be able to see the Earth curving up if you're in like, Panama for example? What gets me is that it already concedes that the world is curved, without conceding that if the world were curved all the way around, it would be spherical.
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Feb 25, 2013 02:22
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DrProsek posted:So the plan was; http://www.philm.demon.co.uk/Miscellaneous/Sealion.htm This is pretty much my go-to link every time Sealion gets brought up. Even if every ship in the Royal Navy was suddenly deleted overnight, the RAF could still have stopped an invasion. Even if the RAF was suddenly deleted overnight, the RN could still have stopped an invasion. Even if both of them just poofed into thin air, the German plans were such a clusterfuck that the whole thing probably still would have failed.
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Mar 7, 2013 05:55
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Lawman 0 posted:The thing that bothers me the most about the axis is basically how japan refused to change tactics to counter the submarine threat and really the lack of change in Japanese tactics overall until it was basically too late. The Japanese were never going to intercept Vladivostok-bound US convoys even after Dec 7 because they already got their asses kicked by Zhukov himself in 1939 at the Battle of Khalkin Gol. But yes, telling your submarine commanders to basically ignore merchant shipping and concentrate on sinking warships when your side possesses arguably the best torpedo in the world was a huge missed opportunity.
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Mar 8, 2013 00:51
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cheerfullydrab posted:Horses produce very high levels of background radiation. This is why human life expectancy went up after the invention of the automobile. This is a fascinating piece of trivia. Do you have any sources? I'd love to read up more, such as numbers.
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Apr 1, 2013 02:00
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Spain has an unemployment rate of 55.5% ?!  I knew it was bad, but I never thought it was that bad.
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Apr 7, 2013 09:13
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John Nance Garner posted:And the 10th ballot, after shifts, which officially nominated one Warren Gamaliel Harding, for President: From a couple of pages back, but why is the Philippines in there? Was it part of the political process while it was a colony/Commonwealth?
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Aug 4, 2013 12:54
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Dusseldorf posted:That wasn't much of a battle but more of the Germans got spotted by a vastly superior force then hunted down and killed. That was seriously the most anti-climactic thing that could have happened to von Spee. I was practically rooting for him after following his journey across the Pacific. 
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Jan 7, 2014 19:47
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Carbon dioxide posted:This projection makes the line that goes over the North look really weird and stretched. I wonder what happened to those ducks. Did they get stuck in ice for the winter? The line would be much more of a natural curve if we were viewing it from a polar projection. Alternatively, the path could disappeared "up" through the northern edge of the map near the Bering Strait and just "reappear" near Greenland.
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Jan 13, 2014 14:43
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chairface posted:It was strategically useful in WWII. A lot of lend-lease gear was sent through Alaska and then Siberia to the USSR from the USA. There's sadly not an accompanying map but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_convoys_of_World_War_II IIRC Soviet-flagged ships would carry lend-lease cargo from Alaska to Vladivostok, right through the heart of the Japanese Empire and the IJN wouldn't touch them over fear of drawing the Soviets into the conflict.
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Jan 29, 2014 20:32
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I figured this would be a good place to ask: Is National Geographic still a good magazine? I fondly remember my grandpa signing me up for them year after year and I thought it'd be nice to get maps again.
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Mar 6, 2014 21:10
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duckmaster posted:I suspect that for some of the countries on that map the number of "days of annual leave" includes public holidays where you're either told you're not working or can take that day off later in the week if you do work it. Philippines: I earn 15 days of vacation leave a year, plus sick leave, plus 17 government-mandated holidays. Since I do IT for a call center I'm often asked to work during holidays, but they give me back a day that I can take off from work within 3 months of the holiday that they're compensating me for. And I can take all those leaves in one sitting if I wanted to.
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Apr 21, 2015 19:21
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Didn't Lincoln outright make his cabinet swear that they'd carry on the war even in the event of an electoral defeat?
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Jul 17, 2015 17:52
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XMNN posted:That's actually the divergence point of my Hitler/Göring alt-history slashfiction. #lovewins if they were here now
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Jul 17, 2015 21:25
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