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3 strange or funny facts about your Home Country!; Made out of pure randomness.
Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM (4,727 Views)
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On the Russian Coat of arms there is a double headed eagle, and Bhutan's flag has a Dragon on it.

Oh and 4 US states style themselves as Commonwealths. Why did you put republic in quotation marks? The USA's unquestionably a republic, always has been.
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It's just not a very republicy thing to do, conquering people.
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Wasn't Rome a republic? Or am I being a historic moron?
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For a while, supposedly. Tarquin-Augustus. You know that. And they didn't conquer much, just Carthage and Gaul and Spain and Greece etc.

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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.

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Lets see:

1- When exploring the seas to conquer lands Spain and Portugal drew a "line" on the territories to go: Spain got the West and Portugal the East. However, the portuguese king at the time wished for the exact limit of portuguese conquest to be slightly more to the west than the proposed longitude, and so we got Brasil. It has been theorised that the existence of the lands of Brasil was already known to the portuguese monarchy before the official discovery.

2- It has been theorised that we were the first westerns to go to Australia. Unfortunately, we ended on the western coast of the island continent, and since there's nothing there but desert its discovery didn't became common knowledge.

3- We introduced guns to the japanese.
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Well the Venetian Republic did it as the the Genoan Republic, as the the Dutch Republic, and the French Republic, and of course Rome. More recently Iraq tried to conquer Kuwait.

And then there is the Nazis, though Reich is often translated as Empire, mini-stashe never took an Royal or Imperial title, the Nazis were populist from day one and once in power very hostile to monarchists.

There are a lot more examples of Communist ones but I've not included them.

Oh and Japan had canons well before the Portuguese, though they were the ones who made the popular.

Interesting fact, the UK and Portugal have the oldest Alliance in the world.
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Some commonly used words in english like pistol or robot are taken from Czech
Czech republic is most atheistic country of europe,we dont have any problems with creotards and other idiots
On Czech coat of arms is double tailed lion
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Wasn't Rome a republic? Or am I being a historic moron?
It was. Until, you know, Julius Caesar came around and formed the Empire. Which is ironic, really, since the whole reason they became a republic was to stop that sort of thing (Caesar didn't just decided to up and take over Rome, he was securing the power that was rightfully his).
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"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

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Well, I can't think of many interesting facts about Wales right now, although I can tell that our language is certainly unique. Dating back to the 6th Century, it is made up of the following letters;

a, b, c, ch, d, dd, e, f, ff, g, ng, h, i, l, ll, m, n, o, p, ph, r, rh, s, t, th, u, w, y

in which a, e, i, o, u, w, and y are considered vowels. The 2004 Welsh Survey says that 21.7% of the population are consider themselves Welsh speakers.

During the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, children were dissuaded from speaking Welsh, and were given a punishment in school if they were overheard speaking it. This punishment was the "Welsh Not", a piece of wood enscribed with the letters "WN", which was hung around the neck of the offending child. If another child was overheard speaking Welsh, the Not would be passed on to that child, so that the child wearing the Not at the end of the day would be beaten.
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That's terriblely hilarious, what's wrong with people.
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I'll be damned if we're civilizing people half a world a way while letting blasted celts mumble their gibberish in our own back yard.

Incidentally because of this rough patch quite few Welsh people upped and moved to Patigonia. After all Argentina was very friendly with Britain but not under their control. What better place to create a colony where they could continue their culture.
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The WN thing is distrubing. VERY DISTURBING...

1.- Mexico's actual pronunciation should be Meshico, but when invaders came, the letter "x" that sounded like "sh" in aztec language passed to be the common "x" sound that people in Europe used.

2.- Yucatán is called like that because, when a spanish invader asked a prisioner what was the name of that place, the prisoner responded "Yucatán". What the spanish guy didn't knew was that "Yucatán" is a word that means "I'm not from here." or "I don't know"

3.- The Chapultepec Castle is the only castle in the whole North or South American continent.
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I've got some about where I live.

1. Cincinnati, Ohio was going to be call Porkopolis, after the fact that pork was a staple of Cincinnatians' diets.

2. The city of Miami is nowhere near where the tribe it is named after lived. The Miami lived near Ohio.

3. The Cincinnati Museum started off as a train staion called the Grand Terminal. The building was shut down for a while until someone turned it into a museum. Recently however, the museum has re-opened services to trains, often being called the "Cincinnati Grand Terminal and Museum".
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@Johnfaa, actually the portugese found the East coast, they didn't release the knowledge because they didn't want the spanish to have colonies in the region
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There are several other castles in the Americas. Fortaleza Ozama is the oldest, though as the Americas were being settled by Europeans Castles were giving way to Fortresses and the line is a bit blurry.

Mexico is one of only 3 nations in the Americas to have had a sovereign Monarchy, the others being Haiti and Brazil, who's was most successful and lasted longest.
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