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well, of course :) as a jumping-off point, maybe something comparable to Linnaean taxonomy as well?

*library employee eye-twitch*

your father wouldn't happen to be from Wisconsin, would he? XD

i just noticed that there's an error with the eastern part of the Black Sea, but i'm also not seeing what's especially horrible about it

i'd think, like many other cases, the uniforms of a continuing pharonic Egypt would be recognizably similar to something from OTL, with dress uniforms being the stand-out. probably the biggest difference would be the legwear, which might still be the classical "kilts" (whatever the right word...

it was just a thought that had occurred to me, is all, since "Tartary" did refer to a large part of the Asian continent historically ;) it wouldn't be the first or last time that an originally narrow definition was applied to a much larger area--"Asia" itself is an example

hey, all. been a while since i made a thread here, but i've been meaning to post alot of questions that have occurred to me in recent months. to explain, in this particular case, i was reading through a book of travel legend and folklore over the summer and learned quite alot about the...

*shrug* tbph, i'm not familiar with the invasion you're referring to

1066, obviously XD more seriously, perhaps sometime during the American Revolution--it's a little unlikely given the Royal Navy, but maybe an allied navy of the Spanish and French, and maybe a few other alternate allies of the Revolutionaries for good measure, could best them and invade the Isles

i'd known about it as a concept for a long time before seeing the video, personally, but pretty much only that it had been planned and was never made and that was about it--Perjurer's show is where i really learned about what was planned for it (though i seem to remember reading somewhere, and...

i looked into it after the earlier post by @Panzer Zodiark because i had the same thought, but it's actually referring to a planned waterside park that was also going to be in California (it's really easy to forget that Disney has tons of resorts all over the world--iirc they essentially own an...

if we're being generous, it could be some kind of archaeological preservation zone--iirc Babylon is in that area (and so is Baghdad, which--again, if we're being generous--would work as a send-up to the Islamic Golden Age even if alot of the city from back then isn't around anymore, and that's...

so you've seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail but didn't recognize the "aquatic ceremonies" bit? :p

i take it you're not a Monty Python fan, then? :p

he did search for Cibola, but this was separate from it, iirc. conveniently, i just remembered what it was called: it was Quivira. i guess i was wrong about the location, since it seems to have supposedly been in Kansas, but i think the point is still valid.

probably just favoritism or something--maybe the guy who made the map was a Hellenic neopagan or something :P

there was a legendary/fictional country that Coronado was searching for way back when which is thought to be somewhere in the area of California, but i can't recall its name off the top of my head. i'll have to go back and check my notes, or go straight back to the source (it was a library...

maybe it's because of Russia's size relative to the rest of the countries? plenty of times, political divisions and other such things won't be shown on smaller entities depending on the size of a map, etc.--there was a huge wall map that i had once which showed the provincial/state divisions for...

if you want to go for an in-name-only approach, another possibility is just to avoid the de facto polarity shift which changed the Republicans from Lincolns to Reagans and the Democrats from Thurmonds to Clintons. iirc, Barry Goldwater in particular was a big part of this when he abruptly...

iirc, yes--it's why several seas are specifically noted on the map, they're the domains of the various Pirate Lords (Barbossa was Lord of the Caspian Sean [sic], for example)