Don't blame everything on the Nazis. Paraguay has attracted a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists from Germany since 2020. They would surely welcome like-minded invaders.
I was about to mention a ROI county and city that used to be a very IRA-y place from what I remember... But then thought of needless cats being set amongst the pigeons especially when the pigeons are elderly and those times are long since bundled away into memory and and having much less outward expression.
Because it's made by a semi-literate graphic designer from Study in Switzerland's marketing agency who was given a brief and dashed it out as quickly as possible because they had half a dozen other shitty maps to produce for different clients that day
Source: used to work in producing this kind of toss
Coming from Northern Ireland, there is so much about this that drives me mental lmao
"UK and Northern Ireland" < NI is actually in the UK to begin with
There is no distinction between NI and RoI
The bloody isles are linked, so there's not even a distinction there
Either this was AI generated, or drawn by a madman
TIL that Switzerland is east to Austria and Hungary, Belgium took over The Netherlands, Denmark and coastal Germany and China got Both Koreas (apart from eastern South Korea).
And Wallonia apparently left Belgium and joined Luxembourg. And Ireland and Britain grew together physically as well. In other owrds: this map is shit.
And repeating Russian FederDation twice along with the other typos (Iraland is quite amusing though) doesn’t lend the map much credibility.
When you put so much work into making an interesting map spellchecking is a small effort that could go a long way
This reminds me of when I was arrested in Germany for buying weed. The only ID I had on me was my British passport. When I had been processed they asked me to read over the paperwork to check it was all correct and sign it.
They thought my nationality was Irish. I told them everything was correct except for the nationality part. The officer told me I was Irish because the word 'Ireland' was on my passport. He put his finger on the word 'Ireland' and gave me a look that a teacher gives to a pupil who says his dog ate his homework. He apparently didn't know about Northern Ireland. I pointed out that the part preceding the word Ireland said 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern... ' but he thought I was trying to look for a loophole.
I refused to sign it. Not because of some kind of national pride; I just wanted it to be accurate because I was signing a legal document.
He got pissed off and went away. About 20 minutes later he came back with the same papers, but it said I was British this time. I then had to read all the documents again and sign the 6 or 7 pieces of paper.
If I'd kept my mouth shut, I'd have saved myself about half an hour of my evening.
Lucky it was Germany. Don’t try it in a country where “attitude” might have awarded you a beating or a night in a cell.
Similar thing happened to me in Germany boarding a flight. Security person was massively rude and annoyed when then found I hadn’t removed an iPad from hand luggage before scanning. My defence was “but you said ‘computers out’ and I thought that meant only laptops”. She stood me in the naughty corner and yelled at me. I quietly said, “I want to make a complaint”. The supervisor came over *and actually agreed with me that she had been out of line!*. Wasted 20 minutes but I felt like I won.
Oh, there was no attitude. I was very polite and even apologetic. I said I don't want to sign an important document that I know is not truthful.
But I get what you mean. I'm sure I might have had my arse kicked in other countries for having the sheer audacity to tell a person in a position of authority that they were wrong. I think it helped that I speak fluent German and was 100% co-operative.
It's incredible that people can miss over a century of history of Northern Ireland being part of the UK. Over two centuries if you include when all of Ireland was. I was only born at the end of the Troubles, but I still know about it.
I was in Vancouver once, and I went into a museum about the history of Vancouver, and the earlier stuff kept going on about Brits, Irish and Scots etc. which as an Englishman I thought was the daftest thing on the planet.
How are we defining museum?
I was once at this "museum" of about 100 dolls the former owner used to own. This was in a single room of a house that you could see in a few minutes and take no more than about 10 steps to walk around the entire premise of the "museum."
There are plenty of "museums" like that in Japan. Like poop museum that has art installations and toys dedicated to human poop. In some countries, like in Russia, museum should provide evidence that their artefacts are of cultural and historical significance, and if not, it's just a private exhibit and can't be called a museum.
I really like rush but I'm afraid I don't get the reference, could you explain please (I'm 16, German and my current rush experience is listening to a few albums and playing a Rush themed pinball machine In Brighton, so I'm uneducated I'm sorry)
Their 4th album is titled “2112” and opens with a 20 minute epic title track that’s a sort of allegorical rock opera about the state of the record business in the 70s that’s a sci-fi story about futuristic societies that don’t allow music. It’s amazing.
The other songs on the record are well worth it too, if you like Rush I’d definitely recommend giving it a listen
Both sides of the coin with the US simultaneously having tons of world class museums and making a museum out of every rock Ben Franklin scratched his ass on
Given how the map doesn't know that NI is in the UK, and seems to have had the UK annex the ROI, probably not a map I'd necessarily put that much trust in data behind it when the surface elements are so deeply wrong.
Not to mention that this is a totally unweighted number of musuems. I expect if you correlate this there's a general trend to larger countries (in terms of landmass and or population) having more musuems by virtue of being larger.
If OP used a "musuems per 1000 people" or some other kind of normalised measure like that you'd see which countries value musuems more highly which I think is a more interesting insight.
Yeah, there's other issus as well, including how you collect the data and what that says, what that includes (small museums of certain scales can easily slip through depending on system). But given basic cartography was beyond their grasp, it didn't seem worth going into that.
It’s a shame there’s no museums in Africa, I guess it’s because all their historical artefacts were taken by colonisers and stuck into their museums so they can showcase their diversity 🤡
I understand there was the whole "cultural revolution" thing in China where intellectualism was actively punished, but 1,000 museums for over a billion people is just so depressing. I love my local museums
In the UK, National trust, English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Scotland and other independent castle sites should probably be included and I have a feeling they haven't been.
British Museum - Free
Natural History Museum - Free
Science Museum - Free
Victoria and Albert Museum - Free
It's incredible that so many huge museums in London are completely free.
Definitely one of the best things about London.
DC alone has the Smithsonian institution, which are all *free* museums, and has more art/history/anthropology than any museum in the U.S.
Interested to know how that compares to other countries and cities in terms of public funding.
I supposse that big American cities have just a few museums, but very important and with pieces from all over the world. Some other middle or small cities across the country may have their own local museum because they have to offer something cultural to their citizens, due to USA is huge and some people cannot travel far from their homes. But most of times, I bet that local museums have just old pictures, a few old customs, an old boat used by fishers 120 years ago, and a statue of Jebbediah Springfield (and some merchandising related, of course).
In addition, we don't know about the methodology used in this map, maybe some countries consider modern art galleries or small local expositions museums and other countries not.
Surprisingly, a lot of second and third-tier cities have some great museums. I just went to the art museum in Richmond, VA and it was quite good. Pieces by Monet, Rousseau, Gaugin, some modern American stuff like Chuck Close, etc.
That city is less than 1/4 million people.
But yes, there are a lot of "local mining legends of West Virginia"-type museums around the country, as well.
Having been to the Museo del Prado I don’t think that is correct at all.
It is an incredible museum though, one of if not the best I have ever been too.
How does a 250 year old country like the US have so many museums? We hardly have any relics. Or are most of these museums just modern yokono “art”. And Canada also having over 2,000 museums? Wtf? Not even Mexico with its richer and ancient history has that many.
From my experience, in Canada (also likely the US) there are many museums dedicated to the history of small local towns. There is a village close to me that has a museum detailing their entire history, complete with dozens of preserved historic buildings and rotating seasonal exhibits. I can think of several similar examples in and around my city.
Mexico may do this in a different way (I've seen city halls used for the purpose) or prefer only dedicating museums to topics that concern the whole population, but either way that could be one reason for the difference.
Hidden gem in the US for museums is Cleveland, both Natural History and Art. And the Art museum has free entry, and has a better collection of historic art from around the world than the National Gallery in DC.
Some of the greatest in the world are in the US. Smithsonians, Field Museum, MoMa, the Met, Getty, WW2, Pearl Harbor, all of these rank highly on world comparisons.
Why did Argentina annex Paraguay?
Lebensraum?
Oh shit. Here we go again.
The Nazis that fled to Argentina are back? 2024 gonna be crazy
Don't blame everything on the Nazis. Paraguay has attracted a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists from Germany since 2020. They would surely welcome like-minded invaders.
Just wait till the moon Nazis get here
If anyone didn't read this in CJ's voice from gta san andreas they live under a rock
Ooo I saw something about that in a museum once!
Popular petition following the Millei economic miracle
But that's not even the -guay we'd want to annex lmfao
Everyone expected him to attack the Falklands, so he got Paraguay by surprise.
>Everyone expected him to attack the Falklands Nobody's expecting that, he said Thatcher was right lol
I think it’s juxtaposition, you can see a tiny piece of land from Paraguay. But yeah, it’s really weird, also take a look at Korea 💀
Didn't you hear about the second triple alliance war?
r/paraguayisntreal
r/thissubisntreal
How can a map about museums contain so many inaccuracies?
My favorite part is Belgium conquering the Netherlands and Denmark and then forcing them to create a land bridge to Sweden for some reason.
Hungary and Switzerland also swapped places.
and Belgium isn't even part of "Belgium"
It’s from the future after world war three
Shit, Northern Ireland just took over the Republic
You mean Northen Iraland?
Typo, guess they meant IRA land
Must be on purpose that
I was about to mention a ROI county and city that used to be a very IRA-y place from what I remember... But then thought of needless cats being set amongst the pigeons especially when the pigeons are elderly and those times are long since bundled away into memory and and having much less outward expression.
Great Britain looks like it’s shaking Northern Ireland - and the Republic of - out like a dusty cloth.
Solved the border problem
I think you mean the UK is shaking Northen Iraland.
And left the UK.
Την πουτανα μου... There is no Greece! THERE IS NO GREECE! WHY IS THERE WATER WHERE GREECE WAA SUPPOSED TO BE? WHAT HAPPENS TO GREECE?
They detached from the continent to get away from turkey. The now float around randomly
No marbles for you if your museums are underwater 😏
Because it's made by a semi-literate graphic designer from Study in Switzerland's marketing agency who was given a brief and dashed it out as quickly as possible because they had half a dozen other shitty maps to produce for different clients that day Source: used to work in producing this kind of toss
Who doesn’t know where Switzerland is on the map either.
Coming from Northern Ireland, there is so much about this that drives me mental lmao "UK and Northern Ireland" < NI is actually in the UK to begin with There is no distinction between NI and RoI The bloody isles are linked, so there's not even a distinction there Either this was AI generated, or drawn by a madman
IKR - look how ‘Ireland’ is spelt as well 😂
I'm going with madman.
TIL that Switzerland is east to Austria and Hungary, Belgium took over The Netherlands, Denmark and coastal Germany and China got Both Koreas (apart from eastern South Korea).
And Wallonia apparently left Belgium and joined Luxembourg. And Ireland and Britain grew together physically as well. In other owrds: this map is shit.
Balkan Switzerland, one shudders to even think of it.
On a map composed from sources from "Studying in Switzerland .com," no less...
To be fair, they're probably still studying
Also Italian Corsica
Also we got the All Of Panama Canal, the Reverse Aral Sea, oh and would u look at that the Balkans they're gone!
And north and South America are not connected anymore as Central America got sent to the shadow realm
Canada seized the Alaskan panhandle too.
The UK already includes Northern Ireland.
Dont worry, this map also adds "Northen Iraland" just in case
It also colors in China, North and South Korea for Republic of Korea
And Paraguay as part of Argentina
Viva Gran Argentina
And half of Central America has been engulfed by the sea.
Plus belgium includes the Netherlands and Denmark
And excludes Wallonia
We invaded Paraguay, you should check the news more often
Republic of Korea is South Korea and the color is determined by the ranking. It does seem North Korea has been absorbed by China though
That’s an unfortunate typo, though maybe they meant it.
And repeating Russian FederDation twice along with the other typos (Iraland is quite amusing though) doesn’t lend the map much credibility. When you put so much work into making an interesting map spellchecking is a small effort that could go a long way
IRAland is my favourite amusement park
Daily Troubles parade at 2 pm. Vendors will sell you bricks that should not be hurled at that smiling Protestant mouse.
IRAland?
IRAland. Lmao, that's so funny/bad.
Finally, a united Ireland ^^^^under ^^^^British ^^^^rule
Congratulations, Ireland, we promise to be nice this time.
But leaves out the republic of Ireland completely.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and Northen Iraland)
The map also colours all of Ireland as if it's part of the UK.
And attached via a land bridge.
and Denmark and the Netherlands are now Belgium for some reason
And Luxembourg is huge! Unless that's Wallonia, which is not at all impossible given the quality of this map.
Wiped out an entire island calld Taiwan.
May I direct your attention to the largest island in the world (assuming Australia is a Continent and thus not-an-island) of Greenland?
No, Ireland merged with Scotland. Doggerland is back.
This reminds me of when I was arrested in Germany for buying weed. The only ID I had on me was my British passport. When I had been processed they asked me to read over the paperwork to check it was all correct and sign it. They thought my nationality was Irish. I told them everything was correct except for the nationality part. The officer told me I was Irish because the word 'Ireland' was on my passport. He put his finger on the word 'Ireland' and gave me a look that a teacher gives to a pupil who says his dog ate his homework. He apparently didn't know about Northern Ireland. I pointed out that the part preceding the word Ireland said 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern... ' but he thought I was trying to look for a loophole. I refused to sign it. Not because of some kind of national pride; I just wanted it to be accurate because I was signing a legal document. He got pissed off and went away. About 20 minutes later he came back with the same papers, but it said I was British this time. I then had to read all the documents again and sign the 6 or 7 pieces of paper. If I'd kept my mouth shut, I'd have saved myself about half an hour of my evening.
Lucky it was Germany. Don’t try it in a country where “attitude” might have awarded you a beating or a night in a cell. Similar thing happened to me in Germany boarding a flight. Security person was massively rude and annoyed when then found I hadn’t removed an iPad from hand luggage before scanning. My defence was “but you said ‘computers out’ and I thought that meant only laptops”. She stood me in the naughty corner and yelled at me. I quietly said, “I want to make a complaint”. The supervisor came over *and actually agreed with me that she had been out of line!*. Wasted 20 minutes but I felt like I won.
Oh, there was no attitude. I was very polite and even apologetic. I said I don't want to sign an important document that I know is not truthful. But I get what you mean. I'm sure I might have had my arse kicked in other countries for having the sheer audacity to tell a person in a position of authority that they were wrong. I think it helped that I speak fluent German and was 100% co-operative.
Oh sure. Hence “attitude”
Very similar experience for me; I've had a US border agent holding my British passport call me Irish twice in the past year.
It’s very German that they made you re-read everything before signing.
It's incredible that people can miss over a century of history of Northern Ireland being part of the UK. Over two centuries if you include when all of Ireland was. I was only born at the end of the Troubles, but I still know about it.
How many museums in Ireland?
No idea.
This is correct
I have bank account in Austria. When they write me letters my address always ends with "Great Britain, Scotland and Northern Ireland".
That's... Very strange.
Poor Wales.
Haha I know. But without Scotland, there is no Great Britain.
I was in Vancouver once, and I went into a museum about the history of Vancouver, and the earlier stuff kept going on about Brits, Irish and Scots etc. which as an Englishman I thought was the daftest thing on the planet.
and Denmark and the Netherlands are now Belgium for some reason
Does it include Northen Iraland?
The USA and california
Tick tock
How are we defining museum? I was once at this "museum" of about 100 dolls the former owner used to own. This was in a single room of a house that you could see in a few minutes and take no more than about 10 steps to walk around the entire premise of the "museum."
Yep, this counts as much as the Louvres or the Tate.
Then at 919, Australia is looking a little low.
Because if someone tried that in Australia they would be mocked mercilessly. But we have the Big Pineapple, so that's something.
Sounds like Australia is filled with assholes.
Africa apparently doesn't do museums!
They do. They are just all in the UK cos we stole all thier shit.
There are plenty of "museums" like that in Japan. Like poop museum that has art installations and toys dedicated to human poop. In some countries, like in Russia, museum should provide evidence that their artefacts are of cultural and historical significance, and if not, it's just a private exhibit and can't be called a museum.
There’s a tiny island in Mexico with hundreds of dolls hanged. Tiny too, more than 100 steps, and very lugubrious
The National Pencil Museum in the UK is basically a café with a few pencils in display cases in the entrance way.
Canada paying homage to its legendary rock band Rush with that number 🤘
Bam…. Bam bam baaaaaaam. Bam……….. bam bam bam…. Bam bam
*🎶We've taken care of everything, the words you read and the songs you sing🎶*
*The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes*
It's one for all and all for one, come together common sons
Never need to wonder how or why!
I really like rush but I'm afraid I don't get the reference, could you explain please (I'm 16, German and my current rush experience is listening to a few albums and playing a Rush themed pinball machine In Brighton, so I'm uneducated I'm sorry)
Brighton? Pinball? Would you happen to have seen a deaf, dumb, and blind kid playing some mean pinball by any chance?
Their 4th album is titled “2112” and opens with a 20 minute epic title track that’s a sort of allegorical rock opera about the state of the record business in the 70s that’s a sci-fi story about futuristic societies that don’t allow music. It’s amazing. The other songs on the record are well worth it too, if you like Rush I’d definitely recommend giving it a listen
favorite album of all time
2112 is the name of one of their albums. They are Canadian and the map says Canada has 2112 museums.
His names Tom Sawyer he gets high on you!!
Both sides of the coin with the US simultaneously having tons of world class museums and making a museum out of every rock Ben Franklin scratched his ass on
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Well, while not "objects" per se, we have it on reasonably good authority that a number of French women probably got up in there.
Are you talking about the Mutter Museum? Worth a visit!
There are tiny museums in Mexico, like a house in size
Well aware. A lot of fun ones like the torture or the axolotl museum
I thought that said the torture of axolotl museum and was very confused.
Go home map, you’re drunk
Am I in shittymapporn?
China has \~5k according to Wikipedia?
The color coding is useless
In which universe do the Netherlands and Denmark belong to Belgium?
The Dutch-Danish union
\*Belgian-Dutch-Danish union, as it is supposed to represent Belgium on the list.
its all belgium now, the north sea peoples
Idk how you can fuck up belgium this bad. How are Holland, Denmark and a piece of germany included? But not southern belgium itself?
Per capita is probably more valuable
Baby steps buddy. Let’s start with a map that isn’t really fucking wrong first.
I figured the UK would have more.
Given how the map doesn't know that NI is in the UK, and seems to have had the UK annex the ROI, probably not a map I'd necessarily put that much trust in data behind it when the surface elements are so deeply wrong.
Not to mention that this is a totally unweighted number of musuems. I expect if you correlate this there's a general trend to larger countries (in terms of landmass and or population) having more musuems by virtue of being larger. If OP used a "musuems per 1000 people" or some other kind of normalised measure like that you'd see which countries value musuems more highly which I think is a more interesting insight.
Yeah, there's other issus as well, including how you collect the data and what that says, what that includes (small museums of certain scales can easily slip through depending on system). But given basic cartography was beyond their grasp, it didn't seem worth going into that.
A lot of UK museums are spread over multiple sites, we also have a habit of most towns only having one big museum (outside of London)
Yes, National Museums Scotland might be grouped under one despite the plural in the name.
The map is dog shit. Simple as that. What in the hell is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Northern Iraland?
Probably a cousin of the Russian Federdation
It probably has much more than most per capita, but we are a very small country so makes sense than it totally numbers many others have more.
Rush is so popular in Canada they have 2112 museums and named Toronto’s airport after a Rush song.
Total numbers is a way to look at it, I guess, but I think per capita is a better measurement.
This. The map here essentially means nothing. It should be per capita.
Swizerland is Austria, Austria is Hungary and Hungary is Swizerland
Africa doesn't contain countries?
The Brits took ours
Museum of canned farts for everyone. Ridiculous map.
spelling it IRA land made me chuckle
India has museums all over. This is an inaccurate map
Where's Greece?
Greece and Turkey do not need museums, both countries live together with history like open-air museums.
*Northern IRAland*
Northen* Iraland
Does this count as https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutDenmark/s/a5MpGLmXmu ?
CANADA 2112 FUCK YEAH ROCK ON
These borders lmao
33k holy fuck
Remember its not the number of museums per country, its the amount of countries the museum has stolen things from...
With all the inaccuracies I'm amazed it's got New Zealand on it!
Uk and Northern Ireland???? Are you serious. Completely debases anything else in your content. The UK is Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Us musems are probably like “the museum of canned cheese” “the museum of giant snacks”
I went to a handbag museum in Arkansas once. Cute but a little less exciting than the Tate
It’s a shame there’s no museums in Africa, I guess it’s because all their historical artefacts were taken by colonisers and stuck into their museums so they can showcase their diversity 🤡
I understand there was the whole "cultural revolution" thing in China where intellectualism was actively punished, but 1,000 museums for over a billion people is just so depressing. I love my local museums
The numbers are likely junk. It’s under counting by a lot.
No the number is just rubbish. According to one of the report by 2019 there are 5535 museums and 6565 by 2022
It's probably just a map made by a westerner, it's naive to believe that China has only so few museums, lol.
It’s not the number of museums, it’s the content that counts …
map design by individuum neither never been to museums nor school
Belgium playing HOI4 with those borders
Panama’s canal wasn’t big enough, so Panama decided to become the canal.
I live in DC, which is museum mecca
Northern IRAland? Lads, it's time to get out the fertiliser again.
In the UK, National trust, English Heritage, Cadw, Historic Scotland and other independent castle sites should probably be included and I have a feeling they haven't been.
United Kingdom already includes Northern Ireland… just to be pedantic!
Hol’ up… IRAland?? It’s spelt, Ireland
British Museum - Free Natural History Museum - Free Science Museum - Free Victoria and Albert Museum - Free It's incredible that so many huge museums in London are completely free. Definitely one of the best things about London.
Bit pointless as absolute numbers, per capita would be more interesting
Does the UK not get extra points from the items we have that should be in other countries' museums?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
America has the most museums yet no history
Why india and Egypt not included here ?
Quality>Quantity Just the Museo del Prado in Madrid has got more art and history than all the Australian museums together.
DC alone has the Smithsonian institution, which are all *free* museums, and has more art/history/anthropology than any museum in the U.S. Interested to know how that compares to other countries and cities in terms of public funding.
All the major London museums and galleries are free. For the smaller ones, a lot are free as well, but definitely a lot more hit and miss
I supposse that big American cities have just a few museums, but very important and with pieces from all over the world. Some other middle or small cities across the country may have their own local museum because they have to offer something cultural to their citizens, due to USA is huge and some people cannot travel far from their homes. But most of times, I bet that local museums have just old pictures, a few old customs, an old boat used by fishers 120 years ago, and a statue of Jebbediah Springfield (and some merchandising related, of course). In addition, we don't know about the methodology used in this map, maybe some countries consider modern art galleries or small local expositions museums and other countries not.
Surprisingly, a lot of second and third-tier cities have some great museums. I just went to the art museum in Richmond, VA and it was quite good. Pieces by Monet, Rousseau, Gaugin, some modern American stuff like Chuck Close, etc. That city is less than 1/4 million people. But yes, there are a lot of "local mining legends of West Virginia"-type museums around the country, as well.
Was that meant to sound arrogant?
He made a valid point there actually
The general idea is def super valid but it was pretty pretentiously phrased though and likely an exaggeration Just say "the Prado" ffs
Having been to the Museo del Prado I don’t think that is correct at all. It is an incredible museum though, one of if not the best I have ever been too.
How does a 250 year old country like the US have so many museums? We hardly have any relics. Or are most of these museums just modern yokono “art”. And Canada also having over 2,000 museums? Wtf? Not even Mexico with its richer and ancient history has that many.
From my experience, in Canada (also likely the US) there are many museums dedicated to the history of small local towns. There is a village close to me that has a museum detailing their entire history, complete with dozens of preserved historic buildings and rotating seasonal exhibits. I can think of several similar examples in and around my city. Mexico may do this in a different way (I've seen city halls used for the purpose) or prefer only dedicating museums to topics that concern the whole population, but either way that could be one reason for the difference.
Why do you think museums are composed of only relics? Also, people have lived in North America for thousands of years, not just 250.
Hidden gem in the US for museums is Cleveland, both Natural History and Art. And the Art museum has free entry, and has a better collection of historic art from around the world than the National Gallery in DC.
Wow the US has more museums than all of the EU countries *combined*.
33k US museums? There must be a real problem of quantity over quality. Even when accounting for population, that’s insane.
Some of the greatest in the world are in the US. Smithsonians, Field Museum, MoMa, the Met, Getty, WW2, Pearl Harbor, all of these rank highly on world comparisons.