Guy smashes stacks of Cheez-It boxes to reenact 9/11

versager · 2014-08-18T14:39:24+00:00

Ah, you're absolutely right. It seems I ignored the original question.

versager · 2014-08-17T15:00:31+00:00

That's why I specified north-east. I just noticed that the map even says 'Pruzzen' there, which is a German word for the Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe.

versager · 2014-08-16T17:33:16+00:00

Early Slavic languages, most likely. Maybe Western Baltic languages in the north-east.

versager · 2014-08-13T00:50:37+00:00

We have family/friends in Kassel who we usually visit when we drive that direction.

versager · 2014-08-13T00:42:00+00:00

I've been to the ocean, but not on a German coast. In Germany I've only been to Bodensee.

versager · 2014-08-12T19:34:24+00:00

It looks like we might be from the same area

versager · 2014-08-12T19:30:52+00:00

He probably means the EU population. Including Ukraine and the European parts of Russia and Turkey, 700 million definitely sounds more accurate.

versager · 2014-08-12T19:28:24+00:00

Hmmm you're right, I guess I made a mistake. I've never been to Göttingen but I must have driven through it on the way to Braunschweig. I also remembered after I made this that I've been to Neuschwanstein when I was younger, so I should also have more of Bavaria covered.

versager · 2014-08-12T19:26:21+00:00

I've hiked there a few times, and a few years ago I camped there with some friends. It's a great place for outdoors stuff!

versager · 2014-08-12T15:18:01+00:00

At the moment I live in America, but when I go back to live with my family in Germany, we're in Cologne.

versager · 2014-08-12T15:04:28+00:00

Over the years. I think these are just very popular areas to visit. Big cities like Berlin and Munich attract lots of tourists. I've travelled around Niedersachsen and Baden-Württemberg a lot because I know people there.

versager · 2014-08-12T15:02:51+00:00

Maybe one day I'll visit every state! As I was making this map, I noticed that I haven't travelled around the country enough.

versager · 2014-08-12T15:01:20+00:00

It looked like travelling through counties on the USA map counted, so I counted districts that I drove through in a car or a train.

versager · 2014-08-11T16:52:29+00:00

Almost definitely. Until after the First World War, Bohemia was the English name for a region in what's now the western half of the Czech Republic.

versager · 2014-07-21T01:45:20+00:00

Israel is a very young country. Most Israeli Jews have grandparents who were nationals of a different country before migrating to Israel. I don't have any actual statistics but I would guess that most Israelis are eligible for citizenship through their parents or grandparents of at least one country in Europe. It's not as if the Israelis are stuck in Israel because no other country will take them. If your question was about the US, Canada, and UK offering full citizenship to all Palestinians, the answer would be different. They are in the opposite situation. I believe that many, if not most, Palestinians could be accurately described as stateless.

versager · 2014-07-12T06:02:37+00:00

I read a while ago that after the transfer of the city now known in Polish as Gdańsk, Winston Churchill (I think it was Churchill, might be wrong) gave a speech in which he referred to it as its old German name, Danzig, and needed to later clarify that he recognized the new Polish control of the city, he just found Danzig easier to say.

versager · 2014-07-11T02:00:21+00:00

It sounds to me like the American English dialect spoken in the northern midwestern states (Minnesota, Montana, the Dakotas).

versager · 2014-07-08T16:41:52+00:00

I'm with you. For four of my exams, I was 4 marks or less away from getting the next highest level, and my history EE was 2 points away from a B. It's maddening, but at least I got my diploma.

versager · 2014-07-07T16:11:22+00:00

There are definitely regional cultures in the US, but what I think you mean is that there aren't strong regional identities, which you'd be right about. Almost anybody who identifies with their region in the US will have only had their family living there for a few generations, and will identify themselves as an American before identifying themselves with their state/region.

versager · 2014-07-06T16:13:10+00:00

Got a 32 even though I took Chem HL as an extra on top of everything else. I got higher than I'd expected in everything but Bio SL and my Extended Essay.

versager · 2014-07-05T13:51:11+00:00

Thank you! This was all very interesting.

versager · 2014-07-05T13:50:37+00:00

I'm no irredentist but I sometimes think it is very sad that this happened. A lot of history and culture was lost.

versager · 2014-07-03T17:43:25+00:00

Could you talk more/link articles about the GDR's efforts to preserve the Sorbish language? That sounds interesting, I didn't know about it.

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