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(9,160 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Was it like 'this will be what happens if we lose', to rally our own guys to fight harder or something?
Nevilledog
(51,150 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Nevilledog
(51,150 posts)Hekate
(90,738 posts)...are humorous, in many cases, though Bismarck, South Dakota needs no change.
Gotterdammerungham on the New Rhine; Wienerschnitzelplatz elsewhere.
The Great Lakes are all named for beers, lagers, pilsners good enough since in my childhood after WWII beer commercials from that region abounded on TV, and one knows that many if not all of the large breweries were founded by German immigrants like Schlitz, the Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous.
That might be Chicago, hog-butcher to the world, as Carl Sandberg called it, renamed Schlauterhaus...
Not everything is as deeply, darkly sinister, as the term propaganda implies. Fast forward 50 - 100 years and ask yourself what the political cartoons we consume here daily will look like.
DFW
(54,415 posts)Ive never been to North Dakota, so I dont know if theyd want it back or not.
Hekate
(90,738 posts)DFW
(54,415 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 7, 2021, 05:05 AM - Edit history (1)
In another post on another thread someone referred to Senator Markley.
Now there IS a Senator from Massachsetts named Markey, and there IS a Senator from Oregon named Merkley, but a Senator Markley would have to be from either Orechusetts or Massagon, neither of which is easy to find, even on traditional maps.
yardwork
(61,676 posts)As noted in a post below, this image was created by those urging U.S. involvement in WWI. Many Americans felt that was a European conflict that didn't involve the U.S. This image was designed to persuade Americans to get behind the war effort.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Schlauterhaus!
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Japan was an allied power in WW1, but this map is already implying Japanese expansionary interests in North America.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,331 posts)Even if that was the feelings of the map creator and the publisher, you'd think they realise that's not the way to urge a country to join on the same side as the Japanese. Does it indicate that open racism was accepted - you could always get away with "don't trust the Japanese, whichever side they say they're on now"?
Celerity
(43,456 posts)progree
(10,909 posts)And the Gulf of Mexico renamed "Gulf of Hate"? Interesting.
DFW
(54,415 posts)Lake in German is See.
Laken means bedsheet.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,331 posts)I see 'Lake' can mean 'brine', but that fits neither the Swiss lakes not the Great Lakes.
DFW
(54,415 posts)"Inter" is Latin for "between." To say "between the lakes" in Latin, that would be "inter lacus," and the ancient Romans were in the area. The Romans called Switzerland "Helvetia," and the country, officially the Swiss Confederation, still uses the abbreviation "CH," for Confderatio Helvetica, to refer to itself.
Lake Geneva is still called Lac Léman, though the German-speaking Swiss call it the Genfersee, just as they call Lake Zürich der Zürichsee. In fact the two lakes that Interlaken is "between" are the Brienzersee and the Thunersee. Maybe they people just kept the old Latin name, and maybe the Romansch influence had something to do with the town keeping its Latin name centuries ago. After all, Romansch, a direct Latin offshoot, and a language unique to Switzerland, is spoken not too far from there.
melm00se
(4,993 posts)https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:19343522
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,366 posts)support for the U.S. entering the war.
http://barronmaps.com/products/life-magazine-february-10-1916-my-country-tis-of-thee/?hcb=1&doing_wp_cron=1617795836.0689649581909179687500
Solomon
(12,317 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)struggle4progress
(118,316 posts)anti-Asian prejudice, of course, was very widespread in California during WWI: the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) had been made permanent in 1902 and wasn't repealed until 1943. "Province of Mexico" seems consistent with the Zimmerman telegram, which brought the US into WWI. But it's hard to imagine how the Turkish or Austrian empire remnants could have seized Florida or Baja California
I'd guess this didn't originate from the Triple Entente but from pro-war US nativists
ON EDIT. Ooops. I really should read threads before posting: I see melm00se upthread has already tracked it down
kairos12
(12,862 posts)Ask a Rethug who the President of Turconia is?
GusBob
(7,286 posts)There is a New Berlin there
There is also a Bagdad Florida