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    #1832
    MY BAD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭MY BAD


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    #1833
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,241 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Hurley -v- Hurl

    Discuss.

    PNG retains fine detail much better than JPG.


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    #1834
    [Deleted User]
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Cavan goes to hurl, 51 to 49. but they don't count, really... (or maybe they are are impartial observers?)

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    Must be a few years old now looking at Offaly. Need a Joe McDonagh added.


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    #1835
    [Deleted User]
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    (Paint doesn't fill very well)


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    #1836
    blackwhite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,469 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    Cavan goes to hurl, 51 to 49. but they don't count, really... (or maybe they are are impartial observers?)

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    That's more than a bit out of date that this stage.

    McDonagh cup is missing, and counties have moved between the grades quite a bit since then


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    #1837
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    (Paint doesn't fill very well)


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    May I ask for a brief explanation here, what are the colours indicating for starters?


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    #1838
    [Deleted User]
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    May I ask for a brief explanation here, what are the colours indicating for starters?

    Yellow Liam, blue Joe, green Christy, red Nicky, grey Lory. I think. The competitions were all a bit messed up for 2020.


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    #1839
    Biafranlivemat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 386 ✭✭Biafranlivemat


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    I think what is modern day Arizona and New Mexico, and Mexico in general is fairly flat. Hilly in places but not mountainous.
    A lot of those hills in New Mexico are volcanoes, the last one to erupt was only 3000 years ago and considered dormant.
    http://nmnaturalhistory.org/volcanoes/new-mexico-land-volcanoes


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    #1840
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,363 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    I think what is modern day Arizona and New Mexico, and Mexico in general is fairly flat. Hilly in places but not mountainous.

    I went skiing in Arizona once. It has mountains alright. Gets up to about 4,000m. There's a town alongside it called Flagstaff that is a famous high altitude training camp for athletes


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    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users Posts: 18,921 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    Just a quick reminder that this is tonight for anyone interested:
    RIA wrote:
    A lecture by Arnold Horner in honour of the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer.
    About this Event
    A lecture by Arnold Horner in honour of the life and work of John Andrews, cartographic historian and geographer, who died on 15 November 2019. With a short response by Keith Lilley.

    This lecture will be presented live on YouTube. Register to attend and you will receive a link in advance. There will not be the option to comment or ask questions during the event. The link will be made available after the event.

    John Andrews was a pioneer and leading expert in studies of the history of cartography (map-making) in Ireland. He taught geography at Trinity College Dublin between 1954 and 1990, becoming Associate Professor in 1977 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1978. He is particularly associated with two major Academy projects, the Atlas of Ireland (published 1979) and the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (established 1981 and ongoing). His books include A paper landscape (1975), Plantation acres (1985), Shapes of Ireland (1997) and Maps in those days (2009).

    Arnold Horner formerly taught geography at University College Dublin. He has written widely on the geography of Ireland, some of his work being on topics related to the academic interests of John Andrews. Recent writings by Arnold Horner include Mapping Laois (2018) and an edited volume for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, Documents relating to the Bogs Commissioners (2019).

    Keith Lilley is Professor of Historical Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. His research focuses on maps and landscapes, and the connections between them. His books include Mapping Medieval Geographies (2014) and City and Cosmos (2009), and he is chair of the British Historic Towns Atlas. In 2018, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conferred on him the Cuthbert Peek Award, 'For advancing geographical knowledge through the application of contemporary methods, including GIS and mapping.'

    The Irish Historic Towns Atlas is a research project of the Royal Irish Academy. Series editors: Raymond Gillespie, Howard Clarke, Michael Potterton; consultant editor: Anngret Simms; managing and cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty; editorial assistants: Jennifer Moore, Frank Cullen.

    More on the IHTA project here www.ihta.ie

    https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/man-maps-and-map-history-john-andrews-19272019-registration-127991450875?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=eventname


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    JupiterKid
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    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Just a quick reminder that this is tonight for anyone interested:



    https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/man-maps-and-map-history-john-andrews-19272019-registration-127991450875?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=eventname


    Yep, I have my place booked! :)


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    #1843
    1huge1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭1huge1


    What's Closer to Texas Than Texas Is to Itself?

    Apologies if posted before.

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    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
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    Discuss.

    Camán, you can not be serious?


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    chewed
    Registered Users Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭chewed


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    #1846
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,454 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    In attempting to give Trump the election, Fox News gave the wrong part of Michigan to Canada.

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    #1847
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    #1848
    lawred2
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    1huge1 wrote: »
    What's Closer to Texas Than Texas Is to Itself?

    Apologies if posted before.

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    Huh?


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    #1849
    [Deleted User]
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    I think that if you’re on a Texas border it’s the furthest you could go before the furthest point of Texas to you is a bigger distance.


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    #1850
    Ted_YNWA
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    So America is three Texas's wide.


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    #1851
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,907 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    So America is three Texas's wide.

    Texas is so big that even Texas is three Texas’ wide.


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    #1852
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Texas may be big but you could fit Texas into Alaska two times. As Michelle Shocked sang "Texas always seems so big but you know you're in the largest State in the Union when you're anchored down in Anchorage...".


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    #1853
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Texas v Alaska
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    #1854
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Texas is so big that even Texas is three Texas’ wide.

    Texii


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    #1855
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    I had to google Edmonton, that is all for the moment.


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    #1856
    upupup
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭upupup


    Question Time

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    #1857
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    A different bigger one https://i.redd.it/1z8j5irlga021.png


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    #1858
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Here's a related one, focussing on Doggerland, now the relatively shallow Dogger Bank in the North Sea. The middle image shows the western edge of the Ancylus Lake. It also shows the relatively little lake south of Doggerland that the Thames, Rhine, and other major rivers flowed into. (Or so, I understood anyway; in this particular image, it seems its outlet was a tributary of the Rhine.) Its route to the sea was via the British channel, and major flooding events (I guess related to the melting glaciers) basically ripped that channel into its current size and shape around 10000 years ago (give or take a millennium).

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    #1859
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    Map of how far places were by time. The ferryport to Northern Ireland is remote.


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    #1860
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    Wales can be divided into three regions. British Wales , Welsh Wales and Y Fro Gymraeg. They don't quite match the voting results. But it's near enough.

    Plaid have 4 seats out of 40. And they are all in Y Fro Gymraeg, the west coast 'Gealtacht'


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    Votes in 2019 GE[/QUOTE]


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    #1861
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,454 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    Freestate proposals for amending border 1923, darker areas to be liberated.

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