The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Source for it not being true?

[crazy canuck]

No way he says that to the Gorilla - easy tip off that this is fake news.

"My Gorilla is bigger than your Gorilla" - that I would believe.

[celedhring]

Cool map of the day:



Larchie's turf is surely devout.

[DGuller]

Looks like the Reconquista wasn't entirely successful.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Googled the US cities with "Saint," and came across this (it's missing some cities):

https://epicpew.com/american-cities-named-saints/

2. Ave Maria, FL
Founded 2005 by the Ave Maria Development Co. & Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza.

[celedhring]

Looks like the Reconquista wasn't entirely successful.

You can indeed read the history of the Reconquista in that map. The areas with the most red are the ones that fell earlier into Christian hands. You can easily see there the borders of the Kingdom of Asturias, the Duchy of Barcelona, then the old Kingdom of León...

[alfred russel]

Definitely time for a new northern crusade.

[The Brain]

Christianity was a day late and a dollar short up here. Sry.

[Eddie Teach]

Do Swedes still worship Chris Hemsworth?

[The Brain]

Do Swedes still worship Chris Hemsworth?

Not openly.

[garbon]

Do Swedes still worship Chris Hemsworth?

Not openly.

[Josquius]

Looks like the Reconquista wasn't entirely successful.

You can indeed read the history of the Reconquista in that map. The areas with the most red are the ones that fell earlier into Christian hands. You can easily see there the borders of the Kingdom of Asturias, the Duchy of Barcelona, then the old Kingdom of León...

It's curious though. Would have expected the opposite with traditional not particularly religious names in the areas that mostly remained Christian and the reconquered areas getting the full jesus treatment

[The Brain]

Looks like the Reconquista wasn't entirely successful.

You can indeed read the history of the Reconquista in that map. The areas with the most red are the ones that fell earlier into Christian hands. You can easily see there the borders of the Kingdom of Asturias, the Duchy of Barcelona, then the old Kingdom of León...

It's curious though. Would have expected the opposite with traditional not particularly religious names in the areas that mostly remained Christian and the reconquered areas getting the full jesus treatment

[celedhring]

The reconquered areas were full of people that kept calling their towns very much the same way they always did. The Reconquista didn't involve mass displacements of population (that came centuries later), just switching of political power.

[mongers]

Since my last post 10+ hours ago, only 6 new posts have appeared; Languish Is dying.