lazarus Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 👹 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fygjam Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 ^^^ Soon you'll have people flocking to SE Asia for the cool climate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 Mapping Europe’s Heat Wave https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/19/world/europe/uk-europe-heat-map.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted July 21, 2022 Author Share Posted July 21, 2022 https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirchenfeld Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) oops Edited July 21, 2022 by Lirchenfeld duplicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirchenfeld Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 On 7/18/2022 at 8:29 PM, Stillearly said: 🙂 It got its name when it was part of German East Africa. The Reichkommisar had a daugter named Ania, who liked to dance (Tanz) for fun. So in order to entertain when they had guest the Reichkommisar would shout "Tanz Ania". 🙃😜 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 NATIONAL PARKS OF THE GRAND CIRCLE The Grand Circle features some of the most spectacular national parks in the American West: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Mesa Verde, Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted July 31, 2022 Author Share Posted July 31, 2022 The longest road in the world to walk, is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia). No need for planes or boats, there are bridges. It's 22.387 miles and it takes 4.492 hours to travel. It would be 187 days walking nonstop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day. Along the route, you pass through 17 countries, six time zones and all seasons of the year. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=734830814520139&set=a.475668140436409 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 More than half the world’s population lives inside this circle 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 The British have invaded almost every country on Earth Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, the British invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 (edited) Penis Size Worldwide It's interesting that the circle shown two posts above, with more than half the world's population living in it, also has the smallest penis size. At least in terms of making babies, it really seems that size doesn't matter. Edited August 1, 2022 by Toy Boy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 How The World Would Look If Mapping Conventions Were Flipped Upside-Down 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob lt Posted August 1, 2022 Share Posted August 1, 2022 On 7/21/2022 at 12:52 PM, Lirchenfeld said: It got its name when it was part of German East Africa. The Reichkommisar had a daugter named Ania, who liked to dance (Tanz) for fun. So in order to entertain when they had guest the Reichkommisar would shout "Tanz Ania". 🙃😜 Good story but I thought it was the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 1, 2022 Author Share Posted August 1, 2022 Length of the coastline of European countries (km) https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/w8fv9o/the_length_of_the_coastline_of_european_countries/?fbclid=IwAR3dZF-E6v4NHYiaL9bb5U7vmGXege46GmKKQBsg0CY2c4CBJ_KIyQieESo The comments on the source are interesting. . . . Coastline paradox - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox The coastline paradox is the counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length. This results from the fractal curve-like properties of coastlines, i.e., the fact that a coastline typically has a fractal dimension. The first recorded observation of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson[1][2] and it was expanded upon by Benoit Mandelbrot.[3][4] The measured length of the coastline depends on the method used to measure it and the degree of cartographic generalization. Since a landmass has features at all scales, from hundreds of kilometers in size to tiny fractions of a millimeter and below, there is no obvious size of the smallest feature that should be taken into consideration when measuring, and hence no single well-defined perimeter to the landmass. Various approximations exist when specific assumptions are made about minimum feature size... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 1, 2022 Author Share Posted August 1, 2022 (edited) Fort Winfield Scott -- Presidio of San Francisco https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/fort-scott.htm#:~:text=On June 19%2C 1912%2C Fort,manned between 1891 and 1946. . . . Fort Scott Batteries https://home.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/fort-scott-batteries.htm Edited August 1, 2022 by lazarus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillearly Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/ The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Toy Boy Posted August 9, 2022 Share Posted August 9, 2022 The Island Of California (1533) In 1533, an expedition led by Hernan Cortes discovered a strange new land. It was California. But before Cortes, and his seafaring lads, could do a full exploration of the “island”; they were forced to sail away. Convinced it was an island, they told all their mates back home, who told all their mates, and so on and so forth. Incredibly, it wasn’t until 1774 that another expedition discovered the truth. Of course, by that point, Cortes had long since kicked the bucket so nobody could confront him and be like “Hey Hernan! What yo’ playin’ at fool?!” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 Missouri’s admission to the Union was controversial. Having been acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase, Missouri settlers first applied for admission in 1817, under a constitution that permitted slavery.The young republic was operating under a delicate balance of power at the time, with the eleven states that permitted slavery and the eleven states that prohibited it often taking opposite sides on important issues. Louisiana had been admitted as a slave state in 1812, but by then it already had a large slave population and a long tradition of slavery under both the Spanish and French. Missouri, on the other hand, had no such tradition under Spanish and French rule and the territory lay directly west of Illinois, where slavery was prohibited under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance. Opponents of admission objected to adding another slave state, which would tip the balance of power in the Senate to the South. Congress was at an impasse. https://www.facebook.com/DailyDoseofHistory/photos/a.115664163197823/793067112124188/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Watch the world split apart and the modern continents, as we know them, form, all courtesy of plate tectonics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 Left-Side Versus Right-Side Driving chartsbin.com / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 / creativecommons.org 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 13, 2022 Author Share Posted August 13, 2022 Approximately 50% Of Canadians Live South Of This Red Line Reddit / midlleeastceltsReport 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy Boy Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 15 hours ago, lazarus said: Left-Side Versus Right-Side Driving chartsbin.com / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 / creativecommons.org Good one! It might look like almost everyone drives on the right, but in fact the blue areas cover around 40% of the world's population. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted August 14, 2022 Author Share Posted August 14, 2022 Further Proof That California Is Its Own Country While Italy technically has a larger population than California, having a population of 60.3 million compared to the state's 39.5 million, the latter is obviously bigger in terms of area. As you can see from the map, California easily fits over the entirety of Italy, even crossing over a few borders into Swiss territory. To give a bit of perspective on the size of the country versus the area of the state, let's look at some numbers: Italy is 301,340 sq km, while California's is a solid 403,882 sq km, making the country 74.61 percent the size of the state. https://www.factable.com/history/maps-that-show-us-a-new-perspective/11/?utm_source=tp&utm_campaign=ovo-d-us-n-0-0-220518-fa-tp-g5&utm_medium=blank&utm_content=blank&utm_term=blank&twclid=2-1duiys2voovaqzq368jgqckw3&chrome=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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