Fun for fans of wince-inducingly wrong maps!
- Thread starter Thande
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I posted this an another thread a while back, but here's a recreation of a map of the Roman Empire at its height found in a 10th grade history text, modern borders and all.
While at Whitby the other day my friend, a primary school teacher, was considering getting an inflatable globe...this photo should reveal to you why I talked him out of it
(Come back, Wikipedia maps, all is forgiven!)
I had an inflatable globe that was accurate, you just have to pay attention to what you're buying.
I Blame Communism
Banned
I like that mixed in with all the craziness is an almost perfectly-formed "United Bulgaria" as if the mapmaker was just against Macedonian independence, rather than, as is more likley, having forgotten about it.
Another one: in a video we watched in histroy, which was actually rather good, the 30s maps were correct... except that Ireland was annexed to Britain, Macedonia was independent, and the modern borders of the Kaliningrad exclave already existed. But since both Germany and the USSR had great-power highlighting, Koenigsberg was apparently an independent state! That they could have missed this was made more absurd still by a moment when a perfectly accurate phantom-border of Germany's pre-war frontiers appeared, taking in the Koenigsberg Free City, obviously.
The Czech republic probably felt very flattered by this ever-popular classic from CNN...
Somewhere in Bern, very confused Czechs appear...The Czech republic probably felt very flattered by this ever-popular classic from CNN...
Thande
Donor
Jumping up and down on spacehoppers on top of Swiss banks.
"Yes, I'm afraid despite our best efforts, sometimes we do suffer from bouncing Czechs..."
Alex Richards
Donor
Reminds of a joke from Basil Brush
Do you take checks?
Sure
(A man appears)
This is Bruno, he's from Prague
Susano
Banned
Did you make that map? Its quite cool
Of course, it lacks Polish Gotland
And I guess Albanias not fat enough and Serbia too big, but that gets into nitpicking territory already ...
And now I have to kill you
And causing rippling shocks across Europe, that causes Berlin to shift about 35 miles west from its actual location.
And on a similar note, there's this now-or-probably-soon-to-be classic from the ever-reliable Fox News.The Czech republic probably felt very flattered by this ever-popular classic from CNN...
So wait, where have we been fighting all this time? Although this might explain Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Actually... if one looks closer, there is a border between Slovenia and whatever that is in what would have been northern Italy. In other words, between Switzerland and Italy is a country with no name!
This globe must have been by a Padanian nationalist.
