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I had heard before about Switzerland being late to the ladies voting game, so you could say that they only been a democracy for just over 50 years.

A regional vs national map would be interesting - we had (only the one, I think) woman Councillor before 1918 as certain women got the right to vote and stand for local elections in 1898.

I doubt there's many places where national happened before local other than (bits of) Switzerland!

@Locati0ns California Explained

https://x.com/Locati0ns/status/1864251596227461230/photo/1

Map created by Maps.Interlude The map above shows the 10 countries with the oldest currencies still in use today.

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Daidi na Nollag!

About fifteen years ago I embarked on a bile bike trip of the UK, starting in Paisley, near Glasgow intending to visit relatives. On the road between Newry and Belfast I stopped for petrol and took advantage of their ATM. Only afterwards did I realise I had gotten NI notes. I had some difficulty in Scotland, especially in the remoter regions, in getting rid of them and I decided to get proper sterling notes. Of course the ATM in Fort William gave me Scottish notes , which were almost impossible to use when I returned south to England. To be fair, I did manage to get rid of all the NI and Scottish notes but only after ,seemingly, arousing considerable suspicion. The larger the establishment the more likely they would accept the foreign notes.

And to think one of the reason for support of Brexit was to protect their precious Sterling.

Once upon a time I would be in NI and England frequently and would often have NI notes. Sometimes Scottish ones too as they can circulate in NI to an extent.

Often ended up being 'forced' in to a specific Irish bar in Brighton that I had superstitions not to go to - watched the Thierry Henry handball there - because they would also take them and few, if any, other shops or bars there would.

Burger King were the only motorway service-y type place that would consistently take NI Sterling off me in GB. Welcome Break are now Irish owned (Applegreen) and might be more willing to these days.

Banks in England still provide this service, if you can find a branch that's open. But that's a whole other story.

And what about Santy?!?

This is a map of Imola, Italy, and the one below is a Google Earth photo of the same city today.Leonardo created what is considered to be "the most accurate map of its time" using advanced

https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1865118177979519443/photo/1

The longest border France has is with Brazil.