mapsontheweb:

Countries where the first-past-the-post voting system is used.

Thank you, British Empire. Not. T_T

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mapsontheweb:

Brooklyn, NY rapid transit, 1912.

nevver:

Song Map of the US

mapsontheweb:

Typical dishes of South America.

kellyclowers:

mapsontheweb:

104 countries restrict the kinds of jobs women can hold.

France, Japan, South Korea and *squints* Austria maybe? Actually maybe more like Czechia. Surprising in any case.

FWIW though there is a comment in the notes that says
“pimani:

For France, I suppose this is linked to a law that was removed last year. Women were not allowed to work in submarines.
If not its maybe a law for undertaker but like a lot of old law in france its not
applied”

Someone else added a screenshot of the relevant part of the 2018 report.

Apparently, in France women are officially barred from jobs which would require them to carry loads over 25kg. No idea how often that restriction may be enforced, if at all, but it evidently still existed when that was written.

psa

slimeblocks:

tayefeth:

fixyourwritinghabits:

jessehimself:

I reblogged one of these but this one is even better.

It’s depressing that the most common Native American language spoken in New Jersey is a language native to what is now Oregon, rather than any of the Delaware languages spoken by the tribes who lived here before Europeans showed up.

mapsontheweb:

Wealth per white male, 1860.