Me too… I also bet some Canadian would wonder why large areas of his country have dissolved.

Its quite misleading that regions with (almost) no inhabitants have the same colour as the open sea (although, technically, there are also no people living).

When naming of the DOW, the Germans followed the analogies between the pagan gods as e.g. noted by Tacitus. Mars -> Tyr, Mercurius -> Wodan/Odin, Juppiter -> Donar/Thor and Venus -> Frija/Frigg.

After looking closely at the cropped image found on reddit, I think the southward pointing notch (‘bay’) of the Mediterranean is in fact part of the Sahara desert. The blue area next to that then is the Nile delta with the tall peak, Cairo. Palestine then starts next to the dark corner on the right from it.

Sunday comes first in order in calendars shown in the table below. In the Abrahamic tradition, the first day of the week is Sunday. Biblical Sabbath (corresponding to Saturday) is when God rested from six-day Creation, making the day following the Sabbath the first day of the week (corresponding to Sunday). Seventh-day Sabbaths were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in early Christianity, Sunday remained the first day of the week, but also gradually displaced Saturday as the day of celebration and rest, being considered the Lord’s Day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#Days_numbered_from_Saturday

So in Abrahamic religions, first day of week is Sunday, as the day after Sabbath. In Germany, Monday became day one in 1969 (DRG), and 1975 (FRG), respectively.

Not civil but mechanical engineer here. There are some rule of thumb formulas involved during the construction of a gearbox, e.g. the diameter in mm of a shaft at the bearings: cubic root of the torque in Nm. The ‘necessary volume’ of a gear wheel is another formula involving adventurous math.

As I’ve found out, the one on the right stands for “aromantic”. But the one on the left wasn’t included in the list.

This “anything else” usually is the variance or standard deviation, but I doubt anyone without education in statistics can grasp what they mean.

I’m impressed that the amount per capita in France is significantly less than in Germany or UK, 61 kg vs. 78 kg (76 kg).

One even can see the end of a concrete tie.

A picture of somebody’s hands with some aftermarket extra feature.

Or angular momentum.

You may use the left hand, if you use the technical direction of current from ‘+’ to ‘-’.

Additionally, in German the hamburger or burger is written with a simple u, not ü, Hamburger or Burger.

Don’t forget the Oktoberfest in Munich.

A bit like a map on how Europe is perceived by Americans, where whole Germany is Bavaria.

The equator is one centre axis, one meridian, here 75° E the other. Thus, 0° N 75° E is the centre here instead of 0° N 0° E.

This projection heavily distorts areas where it is not so obvious, as they are in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, but also parts of Africa.

India actually, as no way Spain is ~1/3 of India in reality. They probably take advantage of the area of China being subtly enlarged.