#nations

[ltwilliammowett]

Who served aboard HMS Victory

Well we would assume that if we have a British ship that the majority is British. However, other nations also served aboard the lovely and famous HMS Victory, which was also the case on other ships. But let me show you which other nations were there during the early 19th century.

22 Americans 7 Dutch 6 Swedes 4 Italians 4 Maltese 3 French (all volunteers) 3 Norwegians 3 Germans 2 Swiss 2 Portuguese 2 Danes 2 Indians 1 Russian 1 African 9 from the West Indian Islands

All in all, a really interesting mix.

#naval history #men aboard hms victory #nations #early 19th century #age of sail

[wiirocku]

Isaiah 52:10 (NLT) - The LORD has demonstrated His holy power before the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth will see the victory of our God.

#Isaiah 52:10 #LORD #demonstrated #His #holy power #before #eyes #all #nations #ends #earth #see #victory

[estbela]

idea–the nations have some animalistic(not sure if I'm using the word right) features, based on their national animals/animals they are associated with. Or perhaps even being able to shapeshift into these animals.

Romania having fangs, but not because he's a vampire, rather because, they're the fangs of a lynx, and being capable of purring. Also Serbia having the fangs of a wolf. Some nations having eyesight and/or hearing better than humans. Bulgaria's national animal is the lion, so how about Bul having freakishly good eyesight in the dark(probably ro and serb too, and a lot of other nations tbh)? Perhaps his eyes even glowing a little in the night. Maybe England as well, since his national animal is the lion too.

The italies also having wolfish characteristics(Ancient Rome too). America being as strong and fast as the american bison. Russia is also as strong as a bear, probably has some of it's features too.

And sometimes it's a good useful thing, or simply fun when they have the free time to goof off and shapeshift as some animal. But other times...it's simply one more thing reminding them of the fact they aren't human. And humans, don't quite notice it at first, but eventually they do, and it's hard if they want to pretend to be human. Fitting in is terribly hard. For some humans, it's really unnerving and frightening, which sometimes make a nation's mission more hard, and sometimes even emotionally hurt them if the humans are some of their own people (cause like. The people that you personify sometimes being scared of you has got to suck, right?)

#Hetalia #Aph #Hws #Headcanons #Nations #Nationhood #Meta #Hetalia meta #Romania #Bulgaria #Serbia #America #England #Russia #Can you tell i've been thinking about this for a long time??? #North italy #South italy #Romano #Italy

[asitrita]

Stereotypes about nations in 18th century Austria

Quite interesting, though I bet they would change a lot depending on the nation. Some are not very flattering, tbh.

#countries #nations #hetalia #aph spain #aph france #aph england #aph germany #aph italy #aph romano #aph hungary #aph sweden #aph poland #aph russia #aph turkey #aph greece

[frenchcurious]

source Ruote da Sogno

#nations

[gemsofgreece]

are there any non-european countries that you consider to have surprisingly similar characteristics to greece? asking this bc i'm filipino and in my case there is even the brazilippines (brazil + philippines) meme lol so I wondered if there would be a similar phenomenon with greece. and in case any non-greek followers are reading this and have a similar phenomenon, i'm also curious to know which country has a similarity to yours despite the geographical distance!

Hmm... that's actually tough. Technically, the Mediterranean Basin where Greece is located is considered a somewhat unique region in that its environmental and climatic qualities cannot be found anywhere else in the world except a small part of California. So all those environmental, biocultural factors that are involved in Greece's trademark qualities may be hard to find outside of the Mediterranean.

Then, it's the cultural expression and the historical events. Obviously every nation has its unique culture and history, and Greece has a peculiarity of blurring the lines between being "a culture of the East" and yet the "Cradle of the western civilization" like they call it. All these need a long discussion but my point is that Greece really is the line blur there and that's a quality hard to find in many other places, especially ones that are not close to Greece.

Politically, it isn't all that special. Many other countries follow similar polices. It still sits in a blurry line, between really wanting to adopt a western political mentality and being slowed down by religious, historical conservatism in some aspects. And at this point corruption broadens the list of similar candidates rather than narrows it down.

All these make Greece similar to countries it's close with. The Mediterranean countries, which are not only European. There are the Middle Eastern countries and the North African ones too. Apart from them Greece has a lot of similarities with the rest of the Balkans (southeast Europe). Maybe a few with the countries of Caucasus - West Asia (i.e Armenia).

The top 3 most similar are Cyprus, Italy and Turkey. Then follow ups could be, from most to less similar; Spain, Albania, Portugal, Lebanon, other Balkan countries like idk Croatia, Montenegro, then a Caucasus one like Armenia, some regions of Egypt and Morocco a little etc But they are all close to Greece.

Now from far far away, I can only think of some South American countries maybe, in terms of mentality mostly, a bit of their recent history maybe... There are a lot of affinities between South American and Mediterranean countries. I would say Greece could find more similarities with half the South American countries than with Northern and Western Europe.

An exception could be Ireland. I have heard there are a lot of similarities in the lifestyle, mentality and recent history. But the landscapes look downright opposite on the other hand.

Long story short, I can't think of an obvious twin country far away from Greece.

#greece #world #nations #geography #anon #ask

[blackswaneuroparedux]

We are guardians of a precious flame, and it is our duty not only to keep it burning brightly but to keep it replenished for the decades ahead.

- Queen Elizabeth II, Commonwealth Day Speech

Happy Commonwealth Day

#elizabeth II #queen elizabeth II #quote #commonwealth #monarchy #british empire #british commonwealth #britain #commonwealth day #nations

[w-armansky-blog]

Charred wheat on Ukrainian fertile agricultural land

A wheat field is one of the Ukrainian symbols. Ears of wheat have long carried the energy of fertility and wealth. Almost 60 percent of the territory of Ukraine is covered with fields on which grain crops are grown. The quality and fertility of Ukrainian black soil (chernozemic soil) were once ‘confirmed’ by the Germans, who transported it in wagons from Ukraine during the Second World War.

Currently in the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk the wheat fields are burning due to the explosions or the red-hot fragments of artillery shrapnel. With shelling Russia deliberately set wheat fields on fire, severely damaging crops.

The widespread destruction of the Ukrainian wheat fields that is under way now remains the Holodomor—the man-made famine orchestrated by Josef Stalin in the early 1930s to crush Ukrainian resistance to farm collectivisation. Stalin ordered the Soviet army to strip Ukrainian peasants of whatever food stores they had—even their pets. An estimated 3.9 million people died.

“The Russians are blowing up grain elevators. They are hitting cold storage facilities. There are even reports of them destroying farm equipment. There’s a very targeted approach to what they are doing.”

“Some people can’t fertilise their crop because the Russians are shooting everything that moves . There are reports of them mining the fields, the roads to the fields, not to mention a lot of unexploded ordinance and bodies in the fields. I think wheat yields will be on the floor—maybe a third or a quarter of what they’d normally be.” - Jonathan Clibborn, an Irish immigrant moved to Ukraine 15 years ago with just the shirt on his back, and now farms 3,000 hectares  in the region west of Lviv, near the Polish border.

“Ukraine will not be able to plant corn. The winter wheat in the ground will not be fertilised, and the harvest sharply reduced. That’s a real danger. They are a country of 40 million people, but they produce food for 400 million. That’s the reality of a globalised world. We are all in this together.”  - Arif Husain, chief economist at the UN World Food Programme.

source: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022

#ukraine #Europe #breadbasket #fields #wheat #agricultural #agronomy #seeds #exports #grains #invasion #distruction #devastation #war #wartime #land #Ukrainians #nations #harvest #stockpiles #Holodomor #resistance #fire #photojournalist #burning fields #soldiers #Charred #fields of grain #food crisis #food

[isa-styxr28]

#luka modrić #football #luka modric #real madrid #croatia 10 #lukamodric #lukita #luka modric edit #luka modrić imagine #champions league #uefa nations league #nations #nations league #uefa champions league #croatia national team #national football league

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Before I Formed You

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. — Jeremiah 1:5 | Cambridge Paragraph Bible (CAMB) The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891. Published by Cambridge University Press. Cross References: Psalm 139:15-16; Isaiah 49:1; Luke 1:15; John 10:36; 1 Corinthians 8:3; Galatians 1:15

#creation #God #form #womb #set apart #appointed #prophet #nations #Jeremiah 1:5 #Book of Jeremiah #Old Testament #Cambridge Paragraph Bible #CAMB #Cambridge University Press

[nuku-owo]

jjk is very cool :)

#mcyt fanart #jjkay03 #jjkay03 fanart #nations #nations fanart

[wayti-blog]

"us versus them" is the biggest trap we invented for ourselves

1forall0allfor1

#duality #polarization #conflict #war #politics #economics #class system #caste system #destructive #immaturity #unconscious #unaware #tribalism #nations #society #cultures #civilization #humanity #cooperation #evolution

[wiirocku]

Jeremiah 31:10 (NASB1995) - Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

#Jeremiah 31:10 #hear #word #LORD #nations #declare #coastlands #afar off #He who #scattered #Israel #gather

[estbela]

also I feel like gender kinda works differently for nations(at least in my hetalia verse), because like, they aren't really human even tho they look like it. I think gender for them would be... usually more fluid? Like, nations go through a lot of changes, represent a lot of different things over the years, like for example going through a lot of different names in life, so for most of them gender is a kind of flexible thing.

Of course, the views humans have and have had on gender (& gender roles) & biological sex do affect them, because sometimes they kinda have to follow gender roles to fit in, some don't tho. Also, I think some would identify with human genders, some might call themselves trans, while some don't i guess? And like, nations also probably have the concept of deadnames, but a little differently (like, you shouldn't really call a nation by a name they used to go by in the past, unless you know they're okay with it, whether they're trans or not)

#just talking recreationally #hetalia #aph #hws #Nationverse #Nations #nationhood #I've been trying to compile my thoughts on the gender of nations in a post for some time #And this feels comprehensible enough so I guess I am gonna post it #Hetalia headcanons

[unbfacts]

#British #History #invasion #Countries #nations #indepedence day

[andalus88]

Geralt is so insightful

#get a load of this guy #geralt x ciri #ciri x geralt #witcher geralt #geralt of rivera #henry cavill #the witcher season 3 #the witcher #nations #politics #unity #division #war #princess cirilla #cirilla of cintra #ciri #freya allan