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That map showing the sunken land parts of NW Europe is very cool. Makes you wonder was there settlements along the shorelines there, settlements inland a bit that were ultimately drowned into the sea. That's where most settlements set up, along the shorelines. Is this where the ancient folk stories of floods and cities lost underwater come from?
A prehistoric "Atlantis" in the North Sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5m tsunami 8,200 years ago.
The Storegga slide involved the collapse of some 3,000 cubic km of sediment.0 -
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Anyone familiar with the New England region of the US will know that there is no shortage of names which are more familiar to many Irish people because of their place in either the UK or indeed Ireland.
Two of these names in particular made me laugh when I first heard about them.
One is named London Derry, and the other Derry in the state of New Hampshire. (See bottom right hand corner of the map) And they are separated by the Interstate I93 passing between them
Originally Derry was part of Londonderry until it was incorporated as it's own town in 1827. I wonder what the conversation was like when selecting the name of the new town and was there much or any resistance from the Londonderry residents towards the new name.
I have spoken to people living in the towns now and they had no awareness of the significance of the town names back in Ireland (where many ascendants of the town originated from). I kinda hoped they'd have a Springfield - Shelbyville or Pawnee - Eagleton type of relationship between them.
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Evolving social network of Officer Raymond Piwnicki.
From a 2018 article mapping complaints against cops
About 1,300 out of 30,000 of Chicago’s cops fall into clusters of linked police officersBecause complaints can list multiple officers at once, it’s possible to determine that more than one cop was present at the scene at the same time.
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The illustration above visualizes such a social network. Dots represent officers, linked by lines of complaints. Most officers register few complaints and sit on the outside of the network. But a small portion of officers at the center of network behave differently than those on the outside.0 -
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Seeing the two towns side by side still brings a smile to my Face.Tell me how wrote: »Anyone familiar with the New England region of the US will know that there is no shortage of names which are more familiar to many Irish people because of their place in either the UK or indeed Ireland.
Two of these names in particular made me laugh when I first heard about them.
One is named London Derry, and the other Derry in the state of New Hampshire. (See bottom right hand corner of the map) And they are separated by the Interstate I93 passing between them
Originally Derry was part of Londonderry until it was incorporated as it's own town in 1827. I wonder what the conversation was like when selecting the name of the new town and was there much or any resistance from the Londonderry residents towards the new name.
I have spoken to people living in the towns now and they had no awareness of the significance of the town names back in Ireland (where many ascendants of the town originated from). I kinda hoped they'd have a Springfield - Shelbyville or Pawnee - Eagleton type of relationship between them.
Thanks for the research you did, I never looked up the towns history’s.0 -
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A very plausible interpretation! (Though I've never quite understood the connection between redheads and the colour of any ginger I've seen).Capt'n Midnight wrote: »At first I thought it was about redheads.
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the species diverged about 850,000 years when some ancestral chimps crossed south of the Congo, one of the deepest rivers in the world, probably during a particulary dry spell,
Chimps share territory with Gorillas to the east and west, but seldom interact with them0 -
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Mk II (sorry, got my pixels in a twist the first time!).
I'll add the source (if known) if/when I can find my notes, but this is one of the souvenirs (in the form of black & white A4 photocopies) of a happy afternoon 25 years ago in the old British Museum's reading room for maps, a wonderful place (naturally!). It's the Glencolmcille peninsular area, a fraction of a huge map tinted in beautiful, perfectly preserved colours (people came over to get an eyeful when it was opened out).
A local history FAS scheme/course I joined was a chance to speed up research for a book I had in mind on the uses of plants. We could work anywhere most of the time, so I carried on through a holiday in London. I had a pretext for experiencing the map room (decoding the place names in old books on the subject), but it was open to all (unlike the Round Reading Room, which I never managed to wangle a ticket for despite being a Londoner). I assume the maps are now in the new British Library (a great place to spend some time in).
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Went to see mountain gorillas in Uganda a few years ago. I knew there are very few left in the wild but this map really gets that across.0 -
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Gloomtastic! wrote: »^ We win! :rolleyes:
The wild animals are in green
https://xkcd.com/1338/
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An 1837 traffic survey, one of 16 historical document copies in a folder (Ireland from Maps) that I found in the mid 90s in a visitor/interpretive/heritage centre shop. National Library of Ireland publication (1980), ISBN 0 907328 00 8.
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ohnonotgmail wrote: »well that is my excuse for putting on weight sorted out.
I'm not fat, just riddled with bacteria
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The Electoral College system would account for a lot of that rather than apathy tbh, most states are locked in so a lot of citizens in them wont bother voting for a foregone conclusion and its all down to the swing states. If they switched to a straight popular vote system a lot of those supposedly apathetic people would be straight down to the voting booth.0
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