I think I saw something in the Annals of Unster about the monasteries around Londogrl.
Cavan and Covan have been bitter frenemies since the 8th century, of course.
Which is pronounced Grl.
I’m more worried about the Pirate kingdom of Arrmagh
I’ve been to ARRRMAGH! but I’ve never been to me.
wow! lookin at you, oklahoma, arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama.
gee, i wonder what’s up with that?
I never realized Captain America lived in Brooklyn Heights. That’s an odd fit.
Maybe different implications in the 1930s.
It’s where he is now. He grew up in Red Hook.
Interesting. In movies — both the 1990 film and I believe also in the more recent incarnation — his hometown is one of small suburban houses and white picket fences. So this is how I always thought of him. Very Middle-America.
In the 1930s Brooklyn Heights was an area of docks, mob-run bars, artists’ colonies and old people living in big old houses. Wikipedia says he was from the Lower Eastside. Also an interesting thought.
Some dumbfucks want to build a robocop statue in Detroit. I say they can go to hell, and not Hell, Michigan.
I call Bull on this map. Barcelona received 12 million visitors in 2024 (record is 15 million in 2019). London is accurate (around 20 million in 2024). Paris is WAAAAAY wrong, as the city receives about FIFTY million visitors a year (specially last year).
One of the many maps I collected about the city.
One of the things that fascinated me from a relatively early age is how our city was filled with creeks and even a river, and we only remember them thanks to the names: we have “El clot” which in catalan means puddle, “La llacuna” - the lagoon, and several streets named after creeks though not all of them had real ones. It also can be seen sometimes in the architecture: any building built next to a creek used to have a step on the door so the water would not enter when raining; depending on how close or how active the creek was, this step could be as low as an inch and half, or as high as a normal step.
Our city used to live by the water and for the water, but we seems we almost completely forgot that, and that saddens me.