“Oranje boven, oranje boven. leve the Koningin!”

Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria,  various African nations, and Guinea.  They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.

From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates.  Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak Muslims ( Read more... )

Identical twin girls were born in the Canary Islands about 30 years ago, and the hospital goofed up and sent one home with another family.   BIG lawsuit (3 million euros) is in the works against the people responsible…

Cripes howdy, but I’m getting a lot of private mail on this one from that earlier post.  Let me say that I was in a hurry to post, but that I had my own set of problems with all of those maps.

Here’s some new maps that have been pointed out to me:

This is an odd one, mostly focusing on the Romance Languages (if you include English as one from its ( Read more... )

As some of you will note, Mr. Trivia and Mr. Map Enthusiast here likes to squirrel and roll around in all sorts of odd bits about odd bits of territory. Here’s a few recent adds:

The Frisian Islands, all of which seem to have hung on to their own gumbly dialects - such as Texel, Terschelling, Heligoland (go boom), Sylt and so on.

The Needles, off ( Read more... )