Irish Potato Famine - Isle of Blight - #1
Added 2019-02-15 02:46:22 +0000 UTCThe Irish Potato Famine ranks as one of Europe's worst agricultural disasters--scattering a people to the winds.
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Now THAT's an obscure Homestar Runner reference!
Grant Siefker
2019-02-22 18:45:32 +0000 UTCWhat a great topic in history to discuss. Great choice EH team!
Drewsko
2019-02-18 15:46:35 +0000 UTCI know but the old flag is still in use by both provinces, it’s just not officially the flag of the north anymore. In this case using that flag is like using the flag of east Germany to refer to Germany in the Sun Yat-sen episodes. It’s using the flag of the wrong half to refer to the whole.
Jay
2019-02-17 18:11:20 +0000 UTCMaybe I should go on a potato diet. Eat nothing but potatoes and become taller and more handsome 😁
Lady Bug
2019-02-17 15:19:36 +0000 UTCPretty sure they got the Polish flag right, since I assume they meant Russian Poland, and that was indeed the flag of Poland under the Russian Empire, and when people talk about 19th century statistics for Poland they usually talk about the part under Russia ("the Kingdom of Poland").
Jonathan Luoto
2019-02-17 14:59:03 +0000 UTCPretty sure they also used the modern German flag when Germany wasn't even unified yet. If you go back to the Sun Yat-sen Lies, Robert mentions not using the Imperial German flag because it wasn't immeadiately communicable of representing Germany to the viewer. Just food for thought.
Joseph A.
2019-02-17 14:14:42 +0000 UTCWow you really fucked up everything in the Netherlands didn't you... First you name Belgium and flanders like they are seperate countries. then you throw Holland in there with what is 100% the wrong flag (It's the modern flag of north Holland, but south holland bears the old flag that is also the one historically used for the duchy it comes from) in addition to also not being a country like very dimwitted American thinks it is and is a small part of the Netherlands.
Jay
2019-02-17 00:09:29 +0000 UTCAlso the Nazis made Fanta; but Fanta's not really good to being with...
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2019-02-16 23:57:46 +0000 UTCif you're talking about the government, then yes. but don't look at the country as a whole like that. oh yes, my country rose up against English tyranny; but England also gave us Beatles, Elton John, Monty Python, and The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2019-02-16 23:57:03 +0000 UTCSpotted?
Paul Lenoue
2019-02-16 19:25:48 +0000 UTCBut am I wrong, though?
KHMakerD
2019-02-15 23:32:10 +0000 UTCOI!
Martin Verran
2019-02-15 23:30:53 +0000 UTCYum. Potatoes.
Samantha Webb
2019-02-15 18:53:09 +0000 UTCAlternate History Idea: what if the Potato Blight had instead happened in North America during the "Year Without a Summer," starting in Northern Canada and Spreading all the way down to the Mexican Border?
Martin Verran
2019-02-15 10:30:06 +0000 UTCGreed. It always comes down to greed.
Jacob Ashton
2019-02-15 04:15:01 +0000 UTCLiked the NYC reference. Rent is too damn high.
Matthew Russell
2019-02-15 03:31:50 +0000 UTCEngland was a bag of dicks.
KHMakerD
2019-02-15 03:00:09 +0000 UTCOh, so THAT'S why Ireland was so reliant on potatoes! Now I know! :D
Sientir
2019-02-15 02:59:30 +0000 UTC
