Recent content by January First-of-May

I'm still working on my map... added Bulgaria, Lithuania, Kaliningrad Oblast, Belarus, and Ukraine (including Crimea, which was Ukrainian when I was there), not done yet on Armenia, Serbia, Israel and southern Russia. On my current definitions: "visited" basically means it was a deliberate...

I wanted to say that it must be more recent, because it has the Republic of Crimea. Then I noticed that it doesn't have South Sudan, and the Libyan flag is the old green one. So maybe your date is correct (though in that case I can't figure out how they managed to guess Crimea).

Same for me - I want to add my travels in mainland European Russia (and the northern parts of Ukraine) but there's nowhere to add them. I'll try to add the other places I've been to (Armenia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Israel, Lithuania, southern and western Ukraine, some parts of Russia... Tashkent is...

Added Armenia (how did everyone else miss it?), and added Kaluga, Vladimir, Tver, Novgorod, Vologda, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, and Nizhny Novgorod oblasts, Adygeya, Mari El, and Kabardino-Balkaria republics, and Stavropol krai to Russia. Also changed the Moscow city pixel to the "multiple"...

In my headcanon (and in my somehow-still-planned fanfic), Springfield, North Takoma is somewhere between North Platte and Cheyenne (maybe in the vicinity of Ogallala, which isn't on the map but appears to fit within the strip). And yes, I did draw a similar (simpler) map to be sure that it also...

Just wanted to mention that my own calculations from several years ago (back when I still had Google Earth) say that the Turgay Channel (where appropriate) might not have actually existed - its lowest point is 122 meters! OTOH, Volga-Baltic is 113 meters - much lower. And IIRC there are places...

I agree - at least that way we're actually likely to see some meaningful empty spaces. I recall a similar thread with countries a year or two ago. I wanted one for first-level subdivisions, but can't recall if I actually mentioned it originally.

There is perhaps a bit more added in there than there would have been if directly based on Gulliver's Travels - but I like the sheer detail (if a bit fancy).

Regardless of Cabral, there's Binot Paulmier de Gonneville, who managed to discover yet another part of Brazil while thinking he found Madagascar.

I didn't realize that about the resources. Still, Russian transportation of the time is not up to the task of getting there in less than two years or so each way, and that's assuming they somehow avoid getting captured by the locals. Americans though - assuming they will still exist ITTL...

Which, as I recall, is how either Twilight or Fifty Shades Of Gray started out (can't recall which one, possibly both). Also, some types of fanfiction appear to count as fair use under "parody" - this is why there are so many obvious Harry Potter parodies around (Porry Gatter [my favorite]...

Perhaps even earlier: "Modelling of the tsunami suggests that most of the energy would have been radiated out into the Indian Ocean, sparing most coastal population centres outside Sumatra itself", says the Wikipedia page for the 1833 Sumatra earthquake. And the official map for Brobdingnag is...

It could be that Middle Francia (~= Lotharingia) manages to stay around, with Aachen as the capital, and then ends up owning West Francia eventually. (Which is what I was going for in my previous post.) But I agree, it doesn't seem particularly likely. (EDIT: We might just as well try to have a...

Couldn't a different reorganization of the Carolingian empire keep Aachen as the capital of France? [EDIT: Wikipedia says: "If Louis II had inherited Lotharingia, Middle Francia would have been reunited. However, as Louis was at that time campaigning against the Emirate of Bari, Lotharingia was...