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Map of the proposed Berlin to Baghdad railway. It took 40 years to build, first train ran in 1940 and was one of the causes of WW1.
I've no idea how long it took, or its average speed. Sorry.
Tell me how wrote: »Umm.....What?
Kevo, not trying to be a smartass, but is that a typo or was the route planned prior to 1914 and are you insinuating that it was a cause of international tension prior to the escalation of the war and the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand?0 -
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For the curious, the wikipedia page on the Berlin-Baghdad railway does a decent job of explaining it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin–Baghdad_railway
To keep the maps coming lest the mods step in, here's Louis P. Bénézet's map of "Europe As It Should Be" (1918), depicting imagined nations based on ethnic and linguistic criteria. He basically was trying to solve the kinds of ethnic tensions he blamed as a leading cause of WWI.
Wales incorporating SW England is a new one to me. It also gives the Basques their independence, but not the Catalonians. The Ukranians might object too. There's a Yugoslavia of sorts, and we saw how well that turned out. The Greeks get part of the Turkish coast, which would have been quite the war!0 -
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Italy invaded the Turkish province of Libya in 1911. So a slightly different timeline would have left Turkey with a huge chunk of the world's oil.Ironically, if there had been no WW1, the Germans would have been sitting on the oil wells when they were discovered in the 1920's. Instead the US and British got there first and the rest is history.
English desire for a secure oil supply lead to a coup in Persia in 1921 and invasion and occupation in 1941 -1946 and another coup in 1953 and then there was the revolution in 1979
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Seth Brundle wrote: »
This is who mines the cobalt.
"This report documents the hazardous conditions in which artisanal miners, including thousands of children, mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It goes on to trace how this cobalt is used to power mobile phones, laptop computers, and other portable electronic devices. Using basic hand tools, miners dig out rocks from tunnels deep underground, and accidents are common. Despite the potentially fatal health effects of prolonged exposure to cobalt, adult and child miners work without even the most basic protective equipment"
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr62/3183/2016/en/0 -
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retalivity wrote: »For Donegal/Tyrconnell, Arranmore and Tory were not planted, in fact there wasnt much land planted west of Letterkenny, thats where all the Irish that remained after the flight of the earls were dispossessed to. Land is/was way too boggy and poor for the planters, so they never bothered with it. Similar story with Mid-derry/tyrone, and the glens of Antrim.
Hence why it is also, still one of the strongest gaeltachts in the country (Donegal), and there is a strong Gael presence in the other areas as well.
Linguistic setup in Ulster in 1800.
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Charles Babbage wrote: »Linguistic setup in Ulster in 1800.
Why have they left out half of Cavan on that interesting map of Ulster? Do you have a link to the original (non Reddit) source of this map?
CaLM - Cavan language matters...
Also that inset map shows the Yola language area of the SE tip of Wexford, a language now largely overlooked by mainstream history.0 -
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Quantum Erasure wrote: »(found on Reddit)
In 1973, 40 nodes connected 45 computers. This was the entire internet at the time. This chart was found in 2016 amongst some old papers
Seeing the PDP references on that map brought back memories. A university library I worked in briefly in the mid 80's, had a small dedicated room to house a DEC PDP-11/40 mainframe computer to handle the library catalogue and the book lending system. One day there was a technician pulling it apart and apparently there had been a rare head crash involving one of the swapable disc packs which contained multiple hard disc platters. The drive the pack mounted to was about the size of a washing machine and a pack of multiple large discs only a storage capacity of a few tens of megabytes.
The tech kindly let me souvenier one of the disks from the damaged pack, which you can see here:
This disc probably only held about a megabyte. The relatively tiny Micro SD card I have balanced on top of it could hold 1 TB. The mind boggles at how far things have come.0 -
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Seth Brundle wrote: »Homo sapiens population density
Covid-19 is taking note and says thank you.
Way to go Seth, ya doingus !0
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