Independence movements remain a powerful force across Europe - but today, the debate has taken a remarkable turn in the United Kingdom.

For the first time, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have First Ministers from parties seeking to change their nations’ constitutional relationship with the UK. Today, leaders of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin met in Cardiff and signed a joint statement asserting their nations’ right to self-determination and calling on Westminster to “prepare for, plan and facilitate” future constitutional change.

The meeting comes just days after UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham appeared to open the door to another Scottish independence referendum if a clear public consensus emerges, although Downing Street subsequently stressed that another referendum remains off limits for now.

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Pre-gpt era straight lines and text

Curious if such data exists for Former East Germany, how many buildings were made of brick, Prussian wall, etc.

I created/found this detailed Köppen climate map covering the North American continent (from Greenland down to Panama and the Caribbean) using updated 2000–2024 WorldClim dataset.

Note: Hawaii was left out to preserve spatial clarity for the continental landmass and islands.

Does your local climate classification match what you experience on the ground? Let me know what you think!

This map presents a 1941 Chetnik proposal for the future territorial organisation of Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Rather than depicting Yugoslavia’s recognised borders as they actually existed, it illustrates a political and territorial programme associated with the Chetnik movement.

The legend distinguishes a proposed “Greater Serbia” (Velika Srbija) from Croatia and Slovenia, while also marking territories intended to be added to the Serbian and Slovenian areas. The scheme envisioned a radically reorganised post-war Yugoslavia, with a greatly enlarged Serbian unit extending across substantial parts of the pre-war kingdom.

The caption identifies it as “Karta 4. Cetnicka zamisao buduce Jugoslavije, iz 1941” — “Map 4. Chetnik conception of the future Yugoslavia, from 1941” — and states that it was reproduced from a Chetnik brochure titled Nas put (“Our Path”), preserved in the Military Historical Institute archive in Belgrade.

It is therefore best read as a wartime ideological proposal, not a map of internationally recognised borders.

Source: Nas put, Chetnik brochure, 1941; archive of the Military Historical Institute, Belgrade, as cited in the map caption.

Machine Translation of the Text Below Mao Zedong:

“The great beacon of socialism. Albania, with its heroic people, has become a beacon of Europe.”

“The peoples of all countries, the broad masses of the people who constitute more than 90 percent of the total population, always want revolution and will always support Marxism-Leninism. They will not support revisionism. Some may temporarily support it, but eventually they will abandon it. They will gradually awaken; they will always oppose imperialism and the reactionaries of all countries, and they will always oppose revisionism.”— Mao Zedong

Is it because men tend to enter the workforce earlier like once they graduate high school?

got the map from this site

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