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This image displays a satellite map covering Europe, North Africa, and Western to Southern Asia, marking all locations where Roman coins have been archaeologically found. Large orange shaded areas cover the core territories of the Roman Empire around the Mediterranean, including Western Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, while scattered orange dots show coin finds extending all the way east into India, illustrating the far reach of ancient Roman trade and influence.

Map of Where Roman Coins Have Been Found

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This is a two-panel meme using characters from *SpongeBob SquarePants* to joke about the common size distortion of Antarctica on most standard world maps (most famously the Mercator projection). In the top panel, a giant Plankton labeled "Antarctica on a map" looms over a tiny SpongeBob labeled "The other continents", showing how oversized Antarctica appears on most maps. In the bottom panel, the roles are flipped: a giant SpongeBob labeled "Most other continents" holds a tiny Plankton labeled "Antarctica in real life", illustrating that Antarctica is actually much smaller than it appears on maps relative to other continents.

Antarctica Map Size Distortion Meme

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This is a pun-based meme that answers the question in its title. The image is a screenshot of an X (Twitter) thread: the top post from Vintage Maps shows a 1952 map of the most popular boys' first names across French regions, with nearly every region labeled as having "Jean" as the most popular name, as part of a series on name popularity from 1946-2011. A reply uses the popular 2-panel angry goose chasing person meme format, where the goose repeatedly asks "Why did you not do the names after 2011?". The core pun comes from the phrase "Jean après 2011" (French for "Jean after 2011") which is phonetically similar to the English phrase "cherry picking". The joke works on a second level too: the original map effectively cherry-picks data by only showing 1952, when Jean was overwhelmingly popular across France, matching the term being defined.

How do you say 'cherry picking' in French

This is a pun-based meme that…