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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TO MAP CRIMEA AS PART OF RUSSIA
Breitbart ^ | March 19, 2014 | Breitbart News

Posted on 03/19/2014 7:54:28 AM PDT by Biggirl

On Wednesday, the National Geographic Society announced that they would be altering the global map to include Crimea in the map of Russia after Crimea’s secession from Ukraine is legally finalized. On Tuesday, National Geographic editorial leadership, led by geographer Juan Jose Valdes, determined that maps used by the organization must show “the world as it is, not as people would like it to be…As you can only surmise, sometimes our maps are not received in a positive light by some individuals who want to see the world in a different light.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; crimeareferendum; map; nationalgeographic; putin; russia; ukraine; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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To: Biggirl

Save some money and do Ukraine as well.

Save even more money and reissue the August 31, 1939 map of Europe (you can buy one on the NGS website). That shows the Ukraine and Belarus as their proper sizes, respectively, with Lwow, Grodno, and Brest in Poland where they belong.


21 posted on 03/19/2014 8:09:27 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. H)
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To: Biggirl

Okay, now who you think Obama works for?


22 posted on 03/19/2014 8:09:45 AM PDT by dforest
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To: tillacum

A rushed referendum with foreign troops in the streets is supposed to be legitimate? Will you say the same when parts of California vote to join Mexico?


23 posted on 03/19/2014 8:10:36 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Biggirl

NG lost its way decades ago.


24 posted on 03/19/2014 8:11:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Biggirl

Yet another Proof, that those Green on the outside are RED on the inside.

Watermelon Communists.


25 posted on 03/19/2014 8:11:06 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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To: Biggirl

It is part of Russia.


26 posted on 03/19/2014 8:11:47 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: WhiskeyX
If National Geographic were to show the world as it really is

What "really is" is exactly what is at issue between the "West" and Russia, right now.

And I'm not sure that the UN-IMF-EU-Soros-World Bank-Davos-Obamatron view of what "really is" is going to prevail.

27 posted on 03/19/2014 8:11:55 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise. H)
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To: Marguerite

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3134326/posts

Is a thread from a couple days ago....links to an animated map showing most of the border changes in Europe from the last 950 years or so....fascinating.


28 posted on 03/19/2014 8:12:37 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Biggirl

Maps change. Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0KNfS_M44

Political Borders of Europe from 1519 to 2006

Animated.

I’m more concerned right now about Putin’s reported plans to establish military bases in Cuba, Central and South America, thus threatening to put us on the ever-changing map. There are, after all, a few Russians in Texas and California that, using his reasoning, need protection.


29 posted on 03/19/2014 8:13:17 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Marguerite

I love to see historical maps such as this.


30 posted on 03/19/2014 8:13:31 AM PDT by entropy12 (If you did not vote, you helped elect the community organizer from south side of Chicago.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Great minds. ;-)

My map’s faster than yours.


31 posted on 03/19/2014 8:14:46 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Balding_Eagle
I’m curious if they recognize Israel?

That was my thought as well. They DO have Israel on the map (not Palestine or some other entity). They have the West Bank labeled separately, however, which seems to conflict with their thinking on the Russia-Crimea situation.

32 posted on 03/19/2014 8:16:15 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Marguerite
And Alaska, don't forget Alaska.

33 posted on 03/19/2014 8:17:15 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: entropy12

So do I. It puts history in perspective.


34 posted on 03/19/2014 8:17:16 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: lodi90

Say that to Kosovo and Iraq. They voted with USNATO occupying forces present.


35 posted on 03/19/2014 8:18:40 AM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: GeronL

Yes.


36 posted on 03/19/2014 8:20:47 AM PDT by tillacum
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To: tillacum

I see, so if the Poles in Chicago decide Chicago ought to be a part of Poland, then we should just step aside and say, “Hey, no problem, let’s call NatGeo and get that map of the US redrawn.”

The excuse Putin used in the Crimea was IDENTICAL to the one Hitler used to invade the Sudetenland, and eventually Austria.


37 posted on 03/19/2014 8:21:04 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Biggirl

They map the reality of the situation. They even show the disputed areas between India, Pakistan and China (occupied areas of India after invasion) even though those claims are 50 years old.


38 posted on 03/19/2014 8:21:47 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: RinaseaofDs
I see, so if the Poles in Chicago decide Chicago ought to be a part of Poland

Hmmmm, that might not be such a bad idea.

39 posted on 03/19/2014 8:22:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Biggirl

They might wait a few months. Most likely, more additions are on the way.


40 posted on 03/19/2014 8:22:36 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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