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1925 map of the area now occupied by Gatwick Airport (indicated by the green line), which was constructed on the site of Gatwick Racecourse, best known for hosting the Grand National during WW1.
Administrative divisions of the First French Empire, 1812
Twin Tubes - current and former lines and stations of the London Underground, DLR and Overground showing the lines as they operate, with sidings, single-tracks, crossovers, junctions and depots. Click image for enlarged version.
Since moving to America I’ve found that apparently very few Americans know all this. So I spent six hours designing a fancy photoset to explain it all. Naturally.
Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain, hence “Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. NI residents can elect to be citizens of the Republic of Ireland if they wish (most famous example of someone who did this: Seamus Heaney). The UK’s Olympics team is known as “Team GB” for this reason too, NI residents can elect to represent Ireland if they wish. Same goes for ParalympicsGB.
Northern Ireland is sometimes represented by the Flax flag, thus:
This is deemed to neither favour nor exclude any ‘side’. We use it at work when we need to illustrate the UK’s constituent countries with a flag.
Aside from this, awesome and accurate post is awesome and accurate. Cymraeg (Welsh) has lots and lots of vowels and double letters and is beautiful and lyrical, most signs & notices in Wales are in both languages (like how everything’s in English and French in Canada). Cornish is spoken mostly by people who’ve gained a GCSE and by roadsigns. And no Scottish person has ever said “Hoots mon” ever.
If you want to see what the UK’s other languages are like, try Wikipedia in Welsh, Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, & Irish.
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The map shows the birthplace of every cosmonaut, astronaut, and privately-funded spaceflight participant who has flown into space.
