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Map showing the distance you can see from Everest in each direction
Link to a Google Map of the area is here
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Russia is missing off that map, it means "Land of the Redheads".
Here's an explanation...Kievan Rus was founded by Vikings with red hair (Rurik Prince of Novgorod - Gorod means fortification or courtyard in Swedish), and the name Rus is the same as Finnish people use for Sweden - Ruotsi.
Rus is also a Slavic word for red hair. Kievan Rus stretched form the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, and since the middle ages you separate Red Rus (Southern Poland and Ukraine) from Bela Rus or White Rus, which is the area closer to the Baltic Sea (Baltas meaning white in Lithuanian and Bela is white in Russian).
Then red and white were also used in the civil wars after the Russian Revolution for revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries in Russia and Finland. And since the revolution Russia was red meaning communist, and Stalin has been called The Red Tsar. Although red has always been a Tsarist royal colour, from when Moscow took over from Kievan Rus.
And the Red Square (Krasnyy Kvadrat) has had its name since 1660, because of the colour of the bricks surrounding the crowned Tsar´s palace (the most noble, rich and beautiful colour and material).
Rurik means King or Hero, and Russia comes from Greek for the people of Rus, when the Tsars wanted to portray themselves as the rightful successors of Greek speaking Byzantine East Rome in the 15th-16th century.
And here's a map!
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Russia is missing off that map, it means "Land of the Redheads".
Here's an explanation...
And here's a map!
Or not.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/russia
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here's another map I found.This "Redhead Map of Europe" appears in Jacky Colliss Harvey's book "Red." She writes, "There is a good deal of controversy over the accuracy of such maps, as there is indeed over so many issues associated with red hair, but what it shows very clearly is the hotspot in Russia of the Udmurt population on the River Volga and the increasing frequency of red hair the farther north and west you go, whether in Scandinavia, Iceland, the British Isles, or Ireland.
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Quantum Erasure wrote: »here's another map I found.
I wouldn’t read too much into the distribution of red hair for some kind of link between populations. It’s really a variation of brown anyway and there are six or eight genes that contribute to it, so it could arose independently in different areas.0 -
A satellite photo instead of a map of Berlin. You can still clearly see the divide between east and west by the colour of the lamps. East Germany used sodium vapour lamps which give off a yellow colour, West Germany used flourescent lamps which give off a whiter colour.
You can also see the white blobs of light in the 'west' which signify places with higher commercial activity. One exception in the east is Alexanderplatz which has become a commercial/transport/cultural hub.
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Has Brexit happened 
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