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Flying Abruptly wrote: »Putain is considered stronger than merde, combining them is putain de merde, which is saved for the worst case scenarios
The kid friendly versions of these you often hear are puree (=mashed potatoes) or mercedi (=wedensday).
Similarly, Spanish speakers say "miercoles" (Wednesday) in place of "mierda" (****).0 -
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JupiterKid wrote: »Map of Eurovision Song Contest winning countries, 1956-2020
Every year since we've been in the doldrums and Sweden got to 6 I've been fiercely anti-Sweden during the contest.
The early 90s were frankly insane with us. 94 being the obvious peak.0 -
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I think the act won when they represented Yugoslavia, not Croatia.Gloomtastic! wrote: »^ I thought Iceland won once.
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Gloomtastic! wrote: »^ I thought Iceland won once. Why is Croatia shaded differently?
Yugoslavia won it in 1989.
In 1990 it was hosted in Zagreb, so it's a logical place to put the Yugoslav win I guess.
Iceland have never won it.0 -
Gloomtastic! wrote: »^ I thought Iceland won once. Why is Croatia shaded differently?
The Yugoslav winner in 1989 was from Croatia0 -
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An Entirely New & Accurate Survey Of The County Of Kent, With Part Of The County Of Essex was created by William Mudge in 1801 and is regarded at the first official Ordnance Survey (UK) map.
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsroom/blog/the-beginning-of-our-paper-maps?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=69bfe499-6521-4724-a0d8-0ff9f8bc2354Following a rebellion in 1745 in the Scottish Highlands, our origins were established in military strategy. These roots developed over time and, as the French Revolution was causing increased fear for the government, its defence ministry was ordered to begin a survey of England’s most exposed southern coasts to protect the nation. The name of this ministry was, yes you guessed it, the Board of Ordnance!
At the time Kent, England’s most south-easterly county, was identified to have had the most vulnerability in its coast line and therefore the highest susceptibility to the French invasion. As a result, the first map we ever made was of Kent in 1801. It focused on communication routes and included hill shading to ensure men at arms could interpret the landscape with precision. Over time, this map design became less focused on these elements and was developed to appeal to a much wider audience.
Produced to a scale of one inch to one mile, the map took three years to complete and was finished in the drawing room at our original offices, the Tower of London. It was printed by William Faden of Charing Cross, a then leading cartographer and map publisher.
At this time, maps were engraved back to front on copper plates and separate legends were created for the symbols as the maps were big enough without them. The first maps were sold at three guineas (£3 3s) per county survey, which was between one and three weeks’ wages for the average person.
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Three proposed borders in the north east of Ireland from 1914 - at a time when "Ulster" was looking to be excluded from Home Rule.
The third one became the official border of the Irish Free State in 1922, and remained so when the Boundary Commission failed to offer an alternative.
1. WF Bailey (Estates Commissioners Office)
"Taking WF Bailey first, his was the most disruptive scheme and it paid the least heed to existing administrative boundaries. Instead, Bailey relied on physical geography to craft a more visible border. In Fermanagh, Bailey cut straight through both of the county’s parliamentary divisions, running his boundary line directly up the middle of the Erne waterways system. Of the three schemes, Bailey’s was the only one in which his accompanying notes made no acknowledgement to the scheme’s temporary nature. Bailey used physical geography to create a visible and less permeable boundary line further suggesting he had a permanent settlement in mind."
2. Sir Henry Robinson (Vice-President of the Irish Local Government Board)
"By far the most thorough of the three exclusion schemes was that devised by Sir Henry Robinson. In drawing his boundary line, Robinson took local government boundaries as his operational unit: a method his Undersecretary would later dismiss as unworkable. Robinson had drawn up the local authority areas for the Local Government Act in 1898 and appears to have been proud of the administrative subunits he had designed at that time.
The Robinson scheme proposed the exclusion of 26.85 percent of the population of Ireland and 28.58 percent of Ireland’s land by valuation. Robinson’s exclusion zone was two-thirds Protestant and one-third Catholic. Of the three, Robinson’s boundary line was the only one which explicitly considered infrastructure like road and rail connections."
3. Sir James Dougherty (Undersecretary to the The Chief Secretary for Ireland)
"The third and final scheme to be submitted was that of Undersecretary Dougherty, the highest-ranking civil servant in Ireland and, as a native of Garvagh in the east of Co Derry, the only Ulsterman among the three men consulted. Dougherty first wrote on May 7th explaining that it would be “a difficult, if not impossible job to construct these pens” and that “the policy of exclusion, whatever plan may be adopted, bristles with difficulties and … I do not see how they are to be surmounted.”
Only with the inauguration of the Irish Free State in December 1922 did the boundary line officially become an international border. Its form remained fluid until the collapse of the Boundary Commission three years later, confirming Dougherty’s 1914 line as the Border ever since."
Full article: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/plotting-partition-the-other-border-options-that-might-have-changed-irish-history-1.45560460
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