Here’s a detailed summary of each slave trade mentioned:
Did you Know There Are “Rogue Holes” In The Ocean In Addition To “Rogue Waves”
It comes from this report: Ocean rogue waves and their phase space dynamics in the limit of a linear interference model. (Birkholz, S. et al. Ocean rogue waves and their phase space dynamics in the limit of a linear interference model. Sci. Rep. 6, 35207; doi: 10.1038/srep35207 (2016))
More about them:
Brazil Explained For Foreigners Based On Common Regional Stereotypes
Gaza Before & After The Start Of The War As Seen On Google Earth
The map above was created using Google Earth images, downloaded by reddit user AbleSomewhere4549 and shred on this reddit post.
Here’s what he says about them and the images below:
Cat Meow Sounds: How Different Countries & Languages Represent Cat Sounds in Words
From the map:
Cats may be highly independent creatures, but their language is quite similar throughout the world.
The majority of cat sounds begin with an ‘m,’ including the familiar Meow (Australia, Kenya and Micronesia, to name but a few).
There’s Miau in Nicaragua, Myaco in Nepal, and Miu Miu in Bangladesh.
True to form, however, some felines will just do their own thing, including those in North and South Korea (Yaong) and Malaysia (Ngiau).
Top 5 Most Common Cat Sounds:
- Miau / Miauw: 38 countries
- Meow: 22 countries
- Muwaa: 20 countries
- Miaou: 9 countries
- Mjau: 5 countries
Here are the sounds in various languages around the world according to Language Pro.
- Afrikaans: miaau
- Albanian: mjau
- Arabic (Algeria): miaou miaou
- Bengali: meu-meu
- Catalan: meu, meu
- Chinese (Mandarin): miao miao
- Croatian: mijau
- Danish: mjav
- Dutch: miauw
- English: meow
- Esperanto: miaw
- Estonian: näu
- Finnish: miau, kurnau
- French: miaou
- German: miau
- Greek: niaou
- Hebrew: miyau
- Hindi: mya:u, mya:u:
- Hungarian: miau
- Icelandic: mjá
- Indonesian: ngeong
- Italian: miao
- Japanese: nyaa
- Korean: (n)ya-ong
- Norwegian: mjau
- Polish: miau
- Portuguese: miau
- Russian: myau
- Slovene: mijau
- Spanish (Spain, Argentina): miau
- Swedish: mjau
- Thai: meow meow (with high tone)
- Turkish: miyauv, miyauv
- Ukrainian: myau
- Vietnamese: meo-meo
Also see: Dog Bark Sounds: How Different Countries & Languages Represent Dog Sounds in Words
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Dog Bark Sounds: How Different Countries & Languages Represent Dog Sounds in Words
Canadian Provinces & Territories Replaced With US States & Territories With A Similar Population
Looking at the map you can see why Trump wants Canada, who wouldn’t want a second Alabama or New Jersey?
Percentage (%) of UK Adults Who Have a Positive Opinion About Various Countries
The map above is based off of a Q4 2024 Yougov Survey asking British adults if they’d ever heard of the country and if they had, whether or not they had a positive opinion about it.
Now just because a country has a positive low score doesn’t necessarily mean British adults dislike a country, but could simply mean they have no opinion about it one way or another.
Personally, I don’t have strong views on Palau, Comoros or Nauru.
You can see the full survey results below.
Number Of Times Each State Has Been Admitted Into The United States
Those who have no idea its history, could reasonably assume that each state has only been admitted once to the United States.
Of course once you remember the Civil War, you realise that all the Confederate states had to be admitted a second time after the defeat of the Confederacy by the Union.
But what then of Georgia?
What The French Call The “Gulf of America”
The map above shows what the French call the “Gulf of America”. To them it’s still just: “Le Golfe du Mexique.”
On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America within U.S. federal documents and communications.
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