Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

[Broken_Erika]

I forget his name, but the person in question was an 19th Century American writer, I believe, who first talked about Columbus sailing west "to prove that the world was round".

Lies! The world is flat and the universe revolves around it!

 

[Takhisis]

So the world is revolting!

 

[r16]

oh my , actually ı was about to copy past the entire pages a few weeks back on how Colombus himself didn't claim to be the first and all . American nation building is the answer though , before America everything was bad and bold daring people made America by overcoming Darkness and such cozy words

 

[Kyriakos]

oh my , actually ı was about to copy past the entire pages a few weeks back on how Colombus himself didn't claim to be the first and all . American nation building is the answer though , before America everything was bad and bold daring people made America by overcoming Darkness and such cozy words

You could just refer to Erdogan's claim that when Columbus reached the New (world), the first thing he saw there was a mosque

 

[r16]

am still doing fine , the chief of goverment generals just announced he was having a mosque being built and those two 4 star American generals are slated to dress him down tomorrow . But they are also bringing the Iraqi Chief of Staff so it won't be looking like anything .

 

[Lexicus]

 

[Kyriakos]

^UK

Not that one should expect Turkmenistan to force much of any such ban; it is a dictatorship with self-styled autocrats/glorious leaders.

 

[Arakhor]

It's culturally prohibited in the UK these days. Parents can still do it to their children legally, but even that's controversial these days.

 

[Traitorfish]

It's culturally prohibited in the UK these days. Parents can still do it to their children legally, but even that's controversial these days.

Little comfort to the children whose parents don't care.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I was asked about corporal punishment once, that one of the causes to the problems of today is that it's no longer allowed in schools and that it should be reintroduced. They even asked me that if there were any kids that I wish could've been caned while I was in school.

 

[really]

It is banned in Ireland for the last few years so the map is out of date.

The old UK law which allowed it was replaced around 2000 but the initial replacement didn't explicitly ban it - the replacement act was updated to ban it at home which was the last place it wasn't prohibited.

It was also an example of our slow plan to codify common law - the codified law was updated but the common law defence was not - the revision was to codify the common law and make it illegal.

 

[Arakhor]

Little comfort to the children whose parents don't care.

Well, yes, but that goes for many other things too.

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, yes, but that goes for many other things too.

Have you ever known me to be one for practically-minded compromises?

 

[Arakhor]

Well, aren't you half-Scottish and half-English? I agree with you.

 

[Takhisis]

Oi, mind your language there.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Not really an altered map but i couldn't figure out were to put this so..
The Dutch Municipality of Baarle-Nassau.

The Dutch municipality of Baarle-Nassau is home to more than 20 Belgian enclaves, some of which contain Dutch enclaves.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171210-europes-strange-border-anomaly

If a mod can figure out a better thread to move this to then go ahead and move it.

 

[Colon]

I don't know why Belgium ever bothered with this village. In India/Bangladesh there used to be a case of an enclave within an enclave within an enclave. I can't begin to fathom how that was doable.

 

[Traitorfish]

I don't know why Belgium ever bothered with this village. In India/Bangladesh there used to be a case of an enclave within an enclave within an enclave. I can't begin to fathom how that was doable.

In the Indian case, it goes back to divisions between old princely states, back when it was less a case of borders and more of who you paid tribute to. This was carried over into British administrative divisions, and then into the modern states. By the time it became a problem, after 1946, the borders had been drawn as they were for so long that everybody was too defensive to change them.

The Belgian exclaves are, apparently, something similar, although given that Belgium and the Netherlands were both newly-invented states founded by revolutions in the early modern period, I have absolutely no idea how this carried over.

 

[dutchfire]

The Belgian and Dutch parts were indeed historically different for taxation purposes, and most of the exclaves were simply single buildings/farms at that time. I believe it was quite common in medieval Europe to have tribute/taxation done on a building by building basis.

Most of these situations were rectified at some point, sometimes in treaties and sometimes because the state of the enclave was unified with the surrounding land. I believe that the Holy Roman Empire also had loads of enclaves and exclaves until the consolidation into German states in the 19th century.

That didn't happen here, mostly through accidents of history and because locals liked the status quo. Nowadays, it's a bit of a tourist attraction and it is useful for all sorts of tax/legal purposes. For example, Baarle-Hertog is famous as a place to buy fireworks, the sale of which is very restricted in the Netherlands.

 

[Chukchi Husky]