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  • #9242
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,864 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    though i have just checked and florida and cuba are a lot further apart than that…

    ah; it seems they're based on the 200 mile 'exclusive economic zone' rather than the 12 mile territorial zone.



  • #9243
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,214 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123180429#Comment_123180429

    Guantanamo Bay



  • #9244
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,771 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Sure Russia is only 3km from USA, and a 21h time difference

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  • #9245
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,771 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Do we test our coasts for radioactivity?

    Beaufort’s Dyke is over 50km in length, widths of up to 3.5km, depths of 300m, is a significant underwater canyon. It is not the only military dump off Scotland’s west coast.

    Statements from the MoD also reveal that between 1945-1957 it scuttled 24 ships packed with 137,000 tons of chemical weapons at two sites in the Atlantic. One is 1600km southwest of Land’s End, around Hurds Deep, but the other is a large area beginning 100km northwest of Northern Ireland and southeast of Rockall Deep. Eight of the ships are sitting at depths of less than 2km, and the shallowest is in 500m of water… home to thousands of tons of radioactive waste from UK’s nuclear programme.

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  • #9246
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,898 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123180557#Comment_123180557

    Is Guantanamo Bay part of Florida, though?



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  • #9247
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,042 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123180901#Comment_123180901

    It isn't part of any US state. it is sovereign Cuban territory.



  • #9248
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,214 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123180901#Comment_123180901

    Not sure, was struggling to see how else Florida has an international border.



  • #9249
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Guantanamo Bay (specifically the Naval Base) is indefinitely leased to the US by Cuba, so it's not part of US territory. Bit like Hong Kong back in the day I guess (except for the "indefinitely" bit)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base



  • #9250
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,406 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Maritime boundaries in the Carribean.

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  • #9251
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Female Scientists and Engineers in the EU n0l1p2hfvoje1.jpeg


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  • #9252
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,026 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123181751#Comment_123181751

    Conch Republic



  • #9253
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,808 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123180695#Comment_123180695

    Beaufort's Dyke contains

    The Irish Sea used to be the most radioactive one. Because of the reprocessing at Sellafield

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    Location of main sources of artificial radioactivity in the English Channel and Irish Sea.

    This map focuses on the French reprocessing.



  • #9254
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,771 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123181775#Comment_123181775

    Why is Navassa Island excluded?



  • #9255
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,214 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123182190#Comment_123182190

    I drove Miami to Key west in 2005. Post Hurricane Katrina, so it wasn't too hectic with tourists. Mojitos, cigars and Hemingway's house.

    One of my favourite day trips ever.



  • #9256
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Evolution of the word "soap" from Europe to Australia

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  • #9257
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Most common surname within each British county, 2022

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  • #9258
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Colour of each European country's flag colours mixed together

    FB_IMG_1739590817671.jpg


  • #9259
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 27,954 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123180145#Comment_123180145

    The map doesn't record whether a country was every subject to domination by another country that was a monarchy, but whether it has or had a monarchy of its own. So, e.g. New York was a crown colony subject to the British monarch, but there was never a King of New York. Whereas there is a King of Canada, King of Australia, etc. He's the same person who is also King of the UK, but these are separate monarchies.

    What's curious, though, is that the former monarchies are differently coloured according to whether they had a stand-alone monarchy (like, say, Russia or Spain) or a commonwealth monarchy, sharing a monarch with the UK (like South Africa or Pakistan). But the same distinction is ignored in the current monarchies.



  • #9260
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Military spending

    Military-spending-in-Europe-in-2022-SIPRI-2023.png


  • #9261
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,712 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Nice animation here of population change

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised



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  • #9262
    poop emoji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    IMG_5699.jpeg

    Gave me a chuckle



  • #9263
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,214 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    This might be a repost, but, always an interesting look.

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  • #9264
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Europe 's_reliance on foreign doctors/

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  • #9265
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    😁😁

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  • #9266
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    And another...

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  • #9267
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,406 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    If I knew how I'd post a map of Carlingford Lough changed to Gulf of Mexico😀

    https://www.ria.ie/blog/whats-in-a-name-nordies-and-mexicans/



  • #9268
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,193 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Nice way to visualise history.

    https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions#position=6/52.092/5.127&year=2010

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    You can click on various icons that appear to open a side panel to see a Wikipedia page.

    Looking at the names of the rulers of African nations in the early part of the 20th century was… interesting.



  • #9269
    minggatu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭minggatu


    Home price to income ratio in the OECD nyjmk6woa0ke1.jpeg


  • #9270
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,771 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    ^^ many members absent, including NL, NZ,.. where housing is at crisis point

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  • #9271
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Ordnance Survey street map of Dublin north city, 1973

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    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.

    Zoom in for greater detail!



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