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Not a map per se, yes I know.
But connected with my last post here on the global ranking of cities by size, here is a time lapse chart of the rates of growth of cities in the world between 1700 and 2019.
It’s especially interesting to see the ranking change rapidly in the period 1850 and 2000, marking the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the global economy and the emergence of the post-industrial society in the West.
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More in-depth maps are found here... and according to these Doomsday Futurists:
:eek:"Europe will experience the fastest and most serious Earth changes. Most of Northern Europe will sink beneath the sea, as the tectonic plate underneath it collapses. Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark will be all disappear and will ultimately create hundreds of small islands.
Most of the United Kingdom, from Scotland to the English Channel, will disappear beneath the sea. Several small islands will remain. Major cities like London and Birmingham will be among the remaining islands. Much of Ireland will disappear beneath the sea, except for the higher ground areas."0 -
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"Most of the United Kingdom, from Scotland to the English Channel, will disappear beneath the sea. Several small islands will remain. Major cities like London and Birmingham will be among the remaining islands. Much of Ireland will disappear beneath the sea, except for the higher ground areas."
The area shown in Ireland is most of the midlands - not exactly the "higher ground areas"
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They were in Spain and France as well, though you'd have to go back tens of thousands of years.Historic and present distribution of lions in Africa, Asia and Europe
Cave paintings of lions from the French Chauvet cave from around 30,000 years ago.
It seems to be. Unlike every single other previous species of human you can trace our march out of Africa by the wave of extinctions that happened wherever we went(including other earlier peoples). All previous people reached a prey/predator balance, we didn't, we just kept consuming. When looking at the current Australian wildfires it's sobering to remember that before humans arrived there was a load of animals that were doing fine. Then we showed up and they went extinct very quickly. The Aborigine's ancestors burnt down large areas to drive prey into the open. If humans had never made it there, Australia would look very different today. Hell, humans didn't make it to New Zealand until the 11th century and between then and only a few centuries when the Europeans showed up the Maori had already driven umpteen species extinct.Tell me how wrote: »We are showing our inherent selfishness as a species. Maybe we are not to blame, it's simply our natural instinct.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Just looking at this, are the blue lines in the background for decorative purposes of do they mean something?Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
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The Tetrarch wrote: »You can't run a business with no customers. That is why lines closed. Road transport too over.
Fwiw racehorses went almost exclusively by rail in the early 1900.
The Curragh had a rail siding, Thurles is beside the track (it was called Limerick Junction); Cork racecourse is in Mallow and the main line runs through there.
Now they travel by road, stable to racecourse.
That's the Tipperary racecourse - not Thurles
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Correct. I actually looked it up on Google maps before I got it wrong. :pac:blackwhite wrote: »That's the Tipperary racecourse - not Thurles0 -
The Tetrarch wrote: »You can't run a business with no customers. That is why lines closed. Road transport too over.
Fwiw racehorses went almost exclusively by rail in the early 1900.
The Curragh had a rail siding, Thurles is beside the track (it was called Limerick Junction); Cork racecourse is in Mallow and the main line runs through there.
Now they travel by road, stable to racecourse.
Off topic here, but up till the 1990's the only planes with exemptions to make night landings at Heathrow Airport were those carrying race horses to and from races in the UK. Even government aircraft had to divert to Biggins Hill.
I'm not sure if that exemption still exists, but it was the case until about 1997 at least.
This is a detailed map of the railways with all towns marked.
Good link here to this map: https://www.lbrowncollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Ireland-Railways-2.jpg
Link to other old railway maps: https://www.lbrowncollection.com/ireland-maps-of-railways/
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According to Hot World Report (never heard of them), these Travel Risk Maps reveal places to avoid on holiday.
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JupiterKid wrote: »Lowest temperatures in Europe ever recorded, by Country
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