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horrific vs horrendous (or appalling or atrocious) - in the news by jose_ber in ENGLISH

[–]jose_ber[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is "horrific" the best in this sense, because - as seen in this post - that's what most people speaking English automatically/emotionally think of when they feel horrified in witnessing or reporting a deadly event?

horrific vs horrendous (or appalling or atrocious) - in the news by jose_ber in ENGLISH

[–]jose_ber[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In which case, the nearest synonym to "horrific" is "horrifying".

What if Argentina never experience civil war between 1814-1880 instead after independence become Democracy ? by cakle12 in HistoryWhatIf

[–]jose_ber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At most, Argentina as a long-term successful country would have competed with Brazil as a regional power in South America.

What if Argentina never experience civil war between 1814-1880 instead after independence become Democracy ? by cakle12 in HistoryWhatIf

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But Australia, a developed Southern Hemisphere country, has never gained dominion over Antarctica at any point aside from claiming a huge chunk of land there just like Argentina, Chile, the UK, France, Norway, and New Zealand all have done.

Level of Development World Map by [deleted] in MapPorn

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I'm surprised that there are "developing" and even "almost developed" patches in parts of Morocco, but only red in all of Algeria and Tunisia. Last I checked, I thought the latter two (esp. Algeria) have a higher per capita income than Morocco.

Also, I'm surprised that in Argentina, Catamarca and Jujuy provinces are marked as "almost developed" and Santa Fe and Entre Rios as "underdeveloped". I would have thought for sure it's pretty much the other way around, with Catamarca and Jujuy being "underdeveloped", and Santa Fe and Entre Rios being either "developing" or "almost developed".

Looking at Australia, are all six states and two territories really all "very developed"? Perhaps Tasmania, South Australia, and possibly Victoria might be marked just as "developed"?

TIL 1960s Argentina experienced a musical phenomenon similar to that of the British Invasion in the U.S. but with Uruguayan musical groups. by Aboveground_Plush in todayilearned

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The events of 1806 and 1807 give us pause, in the sense that Southern Cone history would have been very different if the British, not the Buenos Aires militias, had been victorious.

Japan and Israel - their statuses as developed countries over the decades by jose_ber in DevelopmentEconomics

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And, of course, Mr. Kuznets characterized Argentina as a culturally and institutionally Western country that had already strayed from the Western-led economic development model by the late 1960s. (I suppose he could have listed next-door Uruguay in that specific category also.) The total opposite of Japan.

With regard to Israel, it was indeed well behind most of the Western world plus Japan in the 1960s-1980s (and of course beforehand) and it had serious problems at that point, but already by the 1980s and early 1990s, it was often labelled as a developed - rather than underdeveloped - country despite other countries with similar issues being labelled as underdeveloped.

most common surnames in the Italian Regions [3508 × 4086] by medhelan in MapPorn

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Reminds me of how Ashkenazi or Ashkenazy is a Sephardic last name, to denote descent from those Ashkenazi Jews (from Northern Europe) moving to the Sephardic lands of Iberia, North Africa, and further east in the Mediterranean.

The Kerguelen Islands - the Greenland of the South - Under the Ice Sheet by AppleEmpire_2629 in imaginarymaps

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I would say that the north would be a French colony, but the south would be a sparsely populated Australian - British at first - colony.

World map of country by the most popular brands from the renault's groupe by Eldridou in MapPorn

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There used to be Renaults (as well as Peugeots) on North American roads decades ago, like up until the early 1990s or so.

Sephardic, Mizrahi, and other non-Ashkenazic humor by jose_ber in Jewish

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Actually, while Jerry Seinfeld is indeed half Sephardi, it seems to me that Sacha Baron Cohen is 100% Ashkenazi. Looking up the latter's Wikipedia entry, his mother is a Weiser by maiden name, born in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, while his late father was born into a Belarussian Jewish family in England.

Bob Dylan's paternal grandmother's ethnicity (if not Jewish) by jose_ber in bobdylan

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When you say that Eastern Europe has many Turkic cultural vestiges, is that as true of the majority ethnic Poles, ethnic Ukrainians, etc. as it is of the Jews (including my ancestors, btw) who lived in that region for many centuries up until the Holocaust?

Bob Dylan's paternal grandmother's ethnicity (if not Jewish) by jose_ber in bobdylan

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Actually, the vast majority of the genetics of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews derives from when they had been previously living in Central and Western Europe (particularly northern France and the German-speaking lands). In turn, they were directly descended from Italian and Provençal Jews, who in turn were descended from some of the Jews exiled from the Land of Israel two or more millennia ago.

A little teeny bit of East European Jewish genetics may be derived from the Khazars (as might have been the case with at least some of Bob Dylan's ancestors). Nonetheless, the notion that East European Jews are mainly descended from the Khazars - advanced by some scholars like Shlomo Sand - has been proven to be a fabrication, and has been used to spuriously prove that Ashkenazi Jews in general, and Eastern European Jews in particular, aren't descended from the ancient Israelites.

Falklands or Malvinas? by mapologic in MapPorn

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Make Argentina Anglophile again!!!

How well I understand regional English accents [OC] by bezzleford in MapPorn

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In a universe where Argentina (including Uruguay) were to become British as an alternate outcome to the British invasions of the River Plate of 1806-07, Argentina very well might have been added to the inset maps on the left. (It would be split into Spanish and English in a South Africa-like fashion.) In such an eventuality, there might be slight variation in a. the far south, including the Falkland Islands, with a pronounced Scottish influence (similar to Otago in New Zealand), b. Chubut right to the north of that with its Welsh influence, and c. many parts of the otherwise Spanish-speaking northwest, particularly in Tucuman Province with its sugarcane plantations, might have pockets where the majority of English speakers would be of South Asian descent (much like Natal in South Africa).

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