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[Futtocks]

A map of Welsh castles.

Rather than English castles imposed on the Welsh.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

34 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

A map of Welsh castles.

Rather than English castles imposed on the Welsh.

I've been to quite a few of these, essentially all the ones around Snowdonia.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Well if you live in Turkey, you're certainly in the centre of all the action..!

[Bedford Roughyed]

[Futtocks]

Click anywhere on the world map to let a raindrop fall and follow its route to the sea.

https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com 

[Padge]

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Not a country I've ever considered going to and this certainly isn't gonna help me want to... 

Edited October 21, 2024 by The Hallucinating Goose

[Marauder]

On 10/07/2024 at 19:01, Mumby Magic said:

O boy. I thought I'd seen some titles of threads but this beats it. 

 "Mag to grid get rid, Grid to mag add"

[Futtocks]

Has this link been posted already?

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/MapsPortal/

The BGS maps portal provides access to over 45 000 high-resolution viewing images of almost all the small, medium and large scale maps produced by the BGS since mapping started in 1832 right up to the most recent maps released in 2020. It incorporates all the earlier maps and history pages that were previously made available through the BGS ‘Historical maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland’ web resource.

Edited November 7, 2024 by Futtocks

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Interesting map! I'd quite like a print of that on my wall though I don't think Mrs. Goose would like it.

[Griff]

Heard a DJ on t'wireless recently, saying that he never knew that the Scottish national animal was a unicorn and Scottish folk even have one on their passports!

Well, fella, if you take a closer look at your own passport you'll probably find one there too.

[Kimbo]

On 26/07/2024 at 07:05, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Similarly, Tamm for Estonia seems very random. I presume that word maybe means something in Estonian, or at least is a derivative of something because again, I would have ignorantly assumed their names would maybe end in 'ski' as well.

Tamm means Oak.

Ski would be a very odd ending to a surname in a country with a Finno-Ugric language TBF.

(I'm half Estonian BTW, although I'm not sure which half ).

[Bostik Bailey]

On 22/10/2024 at 13:57, Marauder said:

 "Mag to grid get rid, Grid to mag add"

Not any more

[The Hallucinating Goose]

https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1868720502493098478/photo/1

This is an interesting map! The most popular music artist from every English county.

[Eddie]

On 09/09/2024 at 18:32, Futtocks said:

A map of Welsh castles.

Rather than English castles imposed on the Welsh.

Do you consider the Norman castles imposed on the Welsh to be English castles? Serious question btw. 

[Eddie]

23 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1868720502493098478/photo/1

This is an interesting map! The most popular music artist from every English county.

Any idea who determines most popular? Having Nicola Roberts for Lincolnshire is scraping the barrel.  

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

Any idea who determines most popular? Having Nicola Roberts for Lincolnshire is scraping the barrel.  

It says 'most popular/bestselling' above the map so I would guess Nicola Roberts is Lincolnshire's bestselling artist.

[Eddie]

10 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

It says 'most popular/bestselling' above the map so I would guess Nicola Roberts is Lincolnshire's bestselling artist.

Roberts was born in Lincs as her Dad was in the RAF but grew up in Runcorn (thanks to Wikipedia, I didn’t actually know the Lincolnshire bit, fairly sure she identifies as a plastic scouser though). 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

2 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Roberts was born in Lincs as her Dad was in the RAF but grew up in Runcorn (thanks to Wikipedia, I didn’t actually know the Lincolnshire bit, fairly sure she identifies as a plastic scouser though). 

I'm not big into music so couldn't really say what artists are from Lincolnshire. Who else is from there?

[Futtocks]

41 minutes ago, Eddie said:

Do you consider the Norman castles imposed on the Welsh to be English castles? Serious question btw. 

Imposed by the forces of the English crown, so Normans count, as I doubt they built any castles in Wales before 1066.

[Eddie]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

Imposed by the forces of the English crown, so Normans count, as I doubt they built any castles in Wales before 1066.

At the time the Normans most certainly wouldn’t have considered themselves English though, and no English people would have considered them that either. I’m not trying to have an argument btw, I know both viewpoints are valid.  

[gingerjon]

10 hours ago, Eddie said:

At the time the Normans most certainly wouldn’t have considered themselves English though, and no English people would have considered them that either. I’m not trying to have an argument btw, I know both viewpoints are valid.  

If you ever find yourself in Bayeux, the museum around the Tapestry is fascinating for how it shows the world as the Normans would have viewed it themselves post Conquest, with the 'home' but being the south eastern counties of England and the region facing it in the north of France.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

31 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

If you ever find yourself in Bayeux, the museum around the Tapestry is fascinating for how it shows the world as the Normans would have viewed it themselves post Conquest, with the 'home' but being the south eastern counties of England and the region facing it in the north of France.

You got any pics of Bayeux that you could post here? I've never been but it's certainly on my bucket list.

[Eddie]

1 hour ago, gingerjon said:

If you ever find yourself in Bayeux, the museum around the Tapestry is fascinating for how it shows the world as the Normans would have viewed it themselves post Conquest, with the 'home' but being the south eastern counties of England and the region facing it in the north of France.

Went there a few years back, superb place. Being a nerd I often wonder what would have happened if the Battle of Hastings had been won by the English, global history would be so different. 

[gingerjon]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

You got any pics of Bayeux that you could post here? I've never been but it's certainly on my bucket list.

None that I can think of - sorry!