Crazy Boris
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From the timeline where Spain was really desperate to Gibraltar back and was willing to trade
Return of Horrible Educational Maps
- Thread starter Westphalian
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I'm not sure how much of their American Empire they would have had to offer in exchange, but I think more than Cuba.
Oh my.
Dear Lord.
I think that this may have been made in Portugal.
What a disgrace.
At the very least they could have called Spain, "Merdalandia"
Crazy Boris
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What's most baffling here is that the Belarus Ukraine border is still visible where BiH is, so BiH didnt get copy-pasted with the rest of Yugoslavia, instead theres just a big hole where we have Ukrainian and Belarusian exclaves surrounded by Croatia2, Montenegro2, and Serbia2
Did somebody mention the year it was made? For example, I recall China was one timezone but maybe this map was made before that.
Also the Philippines are missing. Strange actually, usually New Zealand is missing instead.
Reddit was not very helpful in that regard. China had timezones until 1949, and given the yellowness of the paper that book is very old.
Also note that in the four images under the world map the Manhattan Skyline most definitely lacks the Twin Towers (can't really tell much more from that image) so one can assume that the book was made before they were built.
And if the timezones are even remotely correct then the fact that Western Europe differs from Central Europe also seem to indicate WWII or earlier, but that is a big if with all those strange colored blobs.
This seems like it was made in the later interwar period, since part of the Manchurian border is visible.
I always knew that one day Kaliningrad would be restored to its rightful name of Koenigsberg!
Eastern Europe's all the same, right? It's fine! Nobody'll notice!I.... errrr.... gaaaaah...
How does that even happen?
My favourite part is Vojvodina in 2nd Yugoslavia deciding to leave Serbia too along with everyone else.
Seriously the fact that that border is there but it isn't there in original Yugoslavia makes me doubt that it was just a mistake. The Danube border line even seems correct.
Is it wrong that I am more concerned about the terrible choices for colouring the countries than I am about the fact that they are using a modern map of Europe for 1919?
It would be easier to worry about the anachronistic borders if you could see them.
It reminds me of those 3D image posters from a few (well, many) years back, where if you let your eyes "unfocus" ie look "through" the image rather than at it, something else hidden pops into focus... who knows, they might have actually hidden a good map in there somewhere