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Ordnance Survey street map of Dublin north city, 1973
Based on 1972 revision, extensive development is taking place in Donaghmede with Castleknock and Blanchardstown beginning to develop into new suburbs. New development is also underway in Finglas South.
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The Pole is shifting
because of a push and pull between two unusually strong magnetic patches in the Earth’s outer core. One patch is under Canada while the other is beneath Siberia. The North Magnetic Pole has historically lain within Canadian borders because of stronger pull of the Canadian magnetic patch, but that is changing rapidly.
Each year the Arctic Circle shifts about 14 metres. The 66.5° line of latitude on map is static, but the magnetic north pole is moving. The circle marks the southern limit of the area where the sun does not set or rise, for at least one day.
This affects Iceland as Arctic Circle currently dissects Grimsey Island, the line is due to move off Grimsey in the next 20 years
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Britain around the year 540. Anglo-Saxon kingdoms' names are coloured red. Britonnic kingdoms' names are coloured black. Placements of peoples based primarily on information in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Lloyd's History of Wales, Vol. I
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The plan was to hide google searches for the Garden Bridge on which £53m was spent and still wouldn't be a public right of way. It's 300m to the West of Blackfriars Bridge.
300m to the East of Blackfriars Railway Bridge is the Millennium Bridge which cost £18.2 million to build (including a £2.2 million overrun)
Beaufort Dyke has about 1.17 million tonnes of nasties. Explosives, poison gas, phosphorus incendiaries, the ole' glow in the dark and anything else that was too dangerous to bury on land. No one is building a bridge or tunnel there anytime soon and in those pre Brexit times 90% of shipments to NI went through Dublin. Trains have different gauge GB rails are 1,435mm apart in NI it's 1,600mm. Must dig up the old isochrone map which shows how remote Stranraer is.
If you do an image search for Jacob Rees-Mogg lying you get lot hits for what appears to be a staged situation with that untruthful person reclining in Parliament. Same technique.
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How The American Electoral College Would Look If It Was Used In Europe
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In our European example above the Vatican each vote would represent just 255 people whereas in Russia each vote would represent over 2 million people!
Micro states like Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Liechtenstein would also get 3 each the same as somewhere like Iceland with as much as 10X the population.
So here’s how the numbers work out for Europe as a whole (and someone has also done the work for if only the EU was included)"
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OSI Street Map of Dublin 1973, South City, 9th Popular Edition
Based on a 1972 revision. Extensive suburban development is taking place in the Dundrum/Rathfarnham/Ballinteer areas, Tallaght and Firhouse are beginning to rapidly develop at the lower LHS of the map and most of the South east suburbs from Donnybrook out to Killiney has been built up. The UCD Belfield campus is also rapidly developing with dualling of the N11 Stillorgan road also underway.
There are still large enclaves of undeveloped lands within the southeast city that would later be infilled with new housing in the 1980s and 1990s.
Zoom in for greater detail.
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Map of the routes taken by thousands of plastic "rubber ducks" which were lost at sea when a storm threw them off a cargo container ship back in January 1992.
Over the next 15 years, the location of sightings of the plastic yellow ducks floating on the Pacific Ocean and beyond provided a good map of ocean currents. An unplanned scientific experiment! 🌊🌊🦆🦆
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^ And from that map above, and this one below, you can see why Trump is so keen for the Russians to have what they have 'won' in the war. Almost all of the very valuable stuff is in areas that Putin has under his control, or that are in heavily Russian speaking areas.
'Trump Mining Organization' coming soon to a Ukrainian mine near you.
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The small island of Market in the Gulf of Bothnia, split between Finland and Sweden.
It is the world’s smallest island split between two nations, at only 3.3 hectares in extent. In 1885, Finland accidentally built a lighthouse on Sweden’s side, but being good neighbours, they simply redrew the border in 1985 to fix the issue.
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and how Gibraltar has grown over 300 years
-The original 1713 British territory glows red
-Expansions from 1854 to 1907 spread in yellow, showing Victorian-era ambitions
-Modern growth in green, marking developments up to 2020
-Careful blue lines trace artificial reefs, while a white boundary marks British-claimed waters
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