Altered Maps ΙΓ: To make a map larger than what it maps.

[Kyriakos]

Looking back, it was obviously always a crap contest, including when Lordi won (with a very bad song once more).

 

[Chukchi Husky]

One thing I find strange is one band I listen to managed to qualify for Eurovision a couple of years ago. What made it strange was the kind of music they played didn't seem like the kind that would appear on Eurovision.

 

[Arakhor]

Hard Rock Hallelujah was a very silly song, but isn't that Eurovision all over?

 

[Domen]

Iirc Hungary doesn't. Hungary wants their own empire of some decades:

Which looks a bit like an agitated aardvark

(notice how the part "to Slovakia" is simply all of Slovakia ).

Slovakia was basically Northern Hungary since around year 1029 until the end of WW1.

And before that, since year 1001 until around year 1029, Slovakia was Southern Poland:

http://translate.google.com/transla...//wyszehrad.com/slowacja/historia/chronologia

http://wyszehrad.com/slowacja/historia/chronologia

The loss of Slovakia and other lands by Hungary was sealed by the Treaty of Trianon.

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Croatia wasn't really part of Hungary as it had an autonomous status within the Crown.

Area lost by Hungary to Ukraine in 1945 had belonged to Hungary only since 1938.

Between the end of WW1 and 1938 that area belonged to Czechoslovakia.

 

[madviking]

Spoiler unemployment by us county :

Spoiler pot stores in washington :

Spoiler pot stores in colorado :

 

[Tee Kay]

The Black Belt strikes again.

Though Virginia is looking pretty good.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Why is there so low unemployment in North Dakota? By what I've heard about it, it's a rigid land filled with angry Americans or something.

And why is the beloved state of California so unemployed?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Why is there so low unemployment in North Dakota? By what I've heard about it, it's a rigid land filled with angry Americans or something.

And why is the beloved state of California so unemployed?

North Dakota is well known to be going through a massive oil boom right now, people are moving there due to the plentiful jobs.

 

[madviking]

Why is there so low unemployment in North Dakota? By what I've heard about it, it's a rigid land filled with angry Americans or something.

And why is the beloved state of California so unemployed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_formation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom

wells in '08

wells in '13

 

[dragonprobably]

 

[Kyriakos]

^I suppose there are reasonably many metal bands in Greece, but probably all of them are crap.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I wonder if there are any cultural differences as to what constitutes as race in say India, compared to elsewhere.

 

[Kyriakos]

^It is likely that most would mean castes, cause i doubt there is any significant other culture in a country with more than a billion indians

 

[Civ'ed]

something tells me the americas have liars in them

 

[Arakhor]

I wonder what percentages "people of a different religion" would pick up.

 

[TheLastOne36]

^It is likely that most would mean castes, cause i doubt there is any significant other culture in a country with more than a billion indians

Which begs the question, how are foreigners perceived in the caste system anyway?

 

[Tee Kay]

Where's the methodology/sample size for that race map

 

[Joecoolyo]

something tells me the americas have liars in them

And why is that?

 

[klar_heiland]

And why is that?

http://www.businessinsider.com/maps-racial-segregation-america-2011-12

 

[cybrxkhan]

Now that is one interesting map, even though as other posters have hinted it might be a bit deceptive at first glance.

I'm a bit surprised Japan is so low, particularly considered to other Asian countries, for instnace, but I suspect there are probably good reasons why that is.