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| 3 strange or funny facts about your Home Country!; Made out of pure randomness. | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM (4,716 Views) | |
| TheCoon | Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM Post #1 |
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My home country is Mexico, so here are 3 strange facts about it: 1.- The Mexican Independence was originally going to occur in September 15, but it occured in September 16 because Miguel Hidalgo (The Independence movement starter) wanted to take his breakfast first. He ate Conchas (Sweet-flavoured bread) and hot cocoa that day. 2.- The Spanish conquer and subsequent destruction of the Aztec empire was a result of a kid's prank. An aztec kid played a prank to a Spaniard in Veracruz. The spaniard resulted to be a high-ranked soldier, which blamed an adult Aztec for the prank. A street fight started, and the aztec accidentally killed the soldier. This situation came to ears of Hernan Cortez, the general in charge of the Spanish Armada. This made him so angry and paranoic, that he decided to attack the Aztecs. 3.- Francisco I. Madero planned the Mexican Revolution, in 1910. He and his men secretly gave informative pamphlets about the revolution movement, without the knowledge of Porfirio Diaz, Mexico's dictator of that time. When the final day came, Madero was surprised to see that no one asisted the movement. In fact, it took various shots before he could convince the people that a revolution is what the country needed. Edited by TheCoon, Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM.
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| Empyreon | Dec 1 2010, 06:04 PM Post #2 |
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Are you plausible?
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Was it Abuelita's? I love that stuff!
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| TheCoon | Dec 1 2010, 06:11 PM Post #3 |
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Hehe... lol. I don't think so. I think what they ate was home made. In an Hacienda. |
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| lamna | Dec 1 2010, 06:58 PM Post #4 |
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I'm normally quite good with Early 20th century history, but the Mexican revolution baffles me. I can't work out what went on. The Flag of England is actually Italian, picked up from Genoa during the crusades. The national animals of the United Kingdom are fictional or have not been native to the land for thousands of years. Our Motto is French, Dieu et mon droit. God and my right shall me defend. Of course the Welsh one isn't French. It's German. Ich dien'. I Serve. |
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| TheCoon | Dec 1 2010, 07:50 PM Post #5 |
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Mexican Revolution baffles me too. And I'm mexican. But I find very funny that, at first, no one really cared about what Madero said. I didn't knew about the animals. I also find that hilarous. Do you know of any other country which it's national animal is ficticious? |
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| Kamidio | Dec 1 2010, 07:53 PM Post #6 |
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Scotland, Wales, and Greece. (Unicorn, Dragon, and Phoenix.) |
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| Ànraich | Dec 2 2010, 03:30 AM Post #7 |
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1. Most of the territory gained by our "republic" was the result of conquest through unprovoked attacks. 2. Our constitution forbids our government from placing taxes on us, but they added an amendment so they could do it anyways. 3. Technically there are only 49 states, as Virginia considers itself a commonwealth (it's official name is actually the Commonwealth of Virginia). |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| seascorpion | Dec 2 2010, 04:16 AM Post #8 |
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?
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-Australians care more about a minute popuation of refugees arriving by boat than they care about climate change,Aborigines living in third-world conditions in our own country, and the economic collapse that will hit us as soon as our coal runs out. -The Europeans who colonised Australia drank more alcohol per day than any other group of people in history -Australia has never been to war on its own |
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| Kamidio | Dec 2 2010, 06:52 AM Post #9 |
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| Zoroaster | Dec 2 2010, 07:41 AM Post #10 |
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Our "national animals" - on Australia's coat of arms, are vermin... Kangaroos and Emus are regularly culled in huge numbers... travel across the country on our National highways, and the roads are littered with roadkill kangaroos... And we feed the animals on our coat of arms to our pets... |
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| Ook | Dec 2 2010, 08:23 AM Post #11 |
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not a Transhuman
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animals on coat of arms must be something extremely rare and endangered? i see no propbel with emu and some kind of kangaroo on coat of arms,as they are also most typical australian animals to non-australian people |
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| T.Neo | Dec 2 2010, 08:43 AM Post #12 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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Socialism win.
When will that happen? 300 years from now?
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| Cephylus | Dec 2 2010, 10:28 AM Post #13 |
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my home country: During the 1988 olympics, we imported few hundred pigeons from Germany as symbols of peace, the pigeons got loose and reproduced and their numbers grew: now pigeons are everywhere in our country in the mountains, in the middle of cities and traffic; everywhere. pigeons are probably as common as rats in Korea In South Korea, one of our major mythological animal is the tapir South Korea is currently suspected of possessing a nuclear bomb (but that seems to have been forgotten by everbody because of North Korea announcing they have a nuclear bomb also) |
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| Holben | Dec 2 2010, 11:52 AM Post #14 |
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1. No law was passed making God Save the Queen the official anthem; however in the British tradition such laws are not necessary. Proclamation and usage are sufficient to make it the official national anthem. God Save the Queen also serves as the Royal anthem for several other countries. 2. Taken together, the World Health Organisation, in 2000, ranked the provision of healthcare in the United Kingdom as fifteenth best in Europe and eighteenth in the world. 3. a Tearfund survey showed only one in ten Britons actually attend church weekly. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| dialforthedevil | Dec 2 2010, 01:20 PM Post #15 |
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Urm lets think: -Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066 -The english drink 20x the amount of tea people in the USA do per year -Nearly 300 different languages are spoken in Britain |
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