I bet you didnt know that

stimpson

There are twice as many border crossings between the Republic and Northern Ireland than there are between the EU and the countries to the east. There are 137 land border crossings to the east of the EU, compared with 275 between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

cdeb

John William Friso (1687-1711), son of William of Orange, is a direct ancestor of every single hereditary European monarch today.

He's also a direct ancestor of many other, now defunct, European monarchies such as Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_descendants_of_John_William_Friso

Capt'n Midnight

cdeb wrote: »

John William Friso (1687-1711), son of William of Orange, is a direct ancestor of every single hereditary European monarch today.

That means William of Orange is also their ancestor :eek:

Adds another layer to republicanism.

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

That means William of Orange is also their ancestor :eek:

Adds another layer to republicanism.

Well not if yer man is a direct ancestor by marriage* to European monarchs. Otherwise they would surely just have said William of Orange.



*That might not even be a thing. Just guessing here.

cdeb

Friso is the most recent link, so he gets the honour.

Has been that way since 1938 - so it took just over 200 years for the entire European monarchy to become interrelated.

Some monarchs have two or three lines back to him as well, because of cousins marrying in their family history.

Edit - sorry; he inherited the title of Prince of Orange as William's closest relative, but he wasn't his son.

Tilikum

We kill 50 billion land animals a year for food. We take 2.7 trillion fish/marine mammals out of the sea every yr. By the year 2050 there'll be more plastic in our oceans than fish. There's 800 million people starving to death, yet we're producing enough to feed 10 billion. The grain that would end world hunger......we feed to the animals we eat.

Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", first published in 1859, didn't contain the world "evolution" until the 6th edition in 1872.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Deleted User wrote: »

Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", first published in 1859, didn't contain the world "evolution" until the 6th edition in 1872.

But the 1st edition does state "From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

Anders Shy Aircraft

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

But the 1st edition does state "From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

That makes sense - the sentence I wrote above was based on a remark in the book "Why the West rules for now" which immediately struck me as remarkable.

The term sadism was coined by German psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing in his book 'Psychopathia Sexualis' in 1886, 72 years after the death of Count Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade - better known simply as the Marquis de Sade - whose name is the inspiration for the term.

De Sade died in 1814 at 74 years old, the last ten years lived as a virtual recluse having given up his writing career which often focused on the exploration of sexual taboos such the derivation of sexual pleasure from pain. His particular mix of hardcore porn and philosophy landed him in prison for blasphemy as well as various asylums for insanity, for more than three decades of his life when combined. He wrote most of his works while locked up, including what is considered to be the most perverse works of literature of the 18th century, The 120 Days Of Sodom.

The book was written while de Sade was a prisoner in the Bastille in 1785, having been locked up by order of his influential mother-in-law. He was moved from the Bastille to a prison for the dangerously insane in 1789, just days before the storming that began the Revolution. It tells the story of four noblemen who lock themselves and their forty-plus victims in a rural castle, and details the acts of depravity and violence that took place in that time. Bestiality, paedophilia, infanticide, murder, rape, violent sodomy, sexual torture, scat, necrophilia, you name it and it's in the book.

The manuscript was kept in the family for a time then sold within France, and passed down again until it was finally published at the turn of the last centrury in Germany, where went down like a lead balloon. After being put in the back of a drawer for a few decades it was given to an Italian family friend for safekeeping, and apparently forgotten. In 1982, it showed up again when it was sold to a Swiss erotica collector who bought it for the then hefty price of $65k. The original owners tried to sue for it's return but the courts ruled in favour of it's Swiss owner. In 2010, the owner indicated that the manuscript was on the market, for the right price.

Enter Bruno Racine, director of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (the National Library) who convinced the French Commission for National Treasures that the book was a 'provisional' national treasure and negotiations began to secure it's return to France for display in the national library. Racine himself describes it as depraved and atrocious, but still managed to secure a budget of over six million euros - mostly raised from private donors - to secure it's return, which he achieved after prolonged negotiations.

In 2014 it was put on display in the Bibliothèque Nationale with other selected works by de Sade to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, where it was apparently a very popular attraction.

I wonder how the banned author of the most depraved manuscript for centuries, the aristocrat who was an anti-establishment libertine and revolutionary philosopher who shocked the nation centuries ago, would have felt about his studiously shocking works of erotica being displayed alongside so much of the nations conventional cultural heritage.

Booms

Candie wrote: »

Bestiality, paedophilia, infanticide, murder, rape, violent sodomy, sexual torture, scat, necrophilia, you name it and it's in the book.
.

I know some people aren't fond of jazz, but really . . . :eek:

Duckworth_Luas

In 2014 Oregon state officials decided to flush almost 150,000,000 litres of water after a 19 year old was captured on CCTV urinating into a resevoir.

FanadMan

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

In 2014 Oregon state officials decided to flush almost 150,000,000 litres of water after a 19 year old was captured on CCTV urinating into a resevoir.

Says a lot for their purification system...........

EndaHonesty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akscXH2izzI

Ridiculous waste of water...

Realt Dearg Sec

FanadMan wrote: »

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

In 2014 Oregon state officials decided to flush almost 150,000,000 litres of water after a 19 year old was captured on CCTV urinating into a resevoir.

Says a lot for their purification system...........

It was actually after it has been purified, they were supposed to be moving to underground storage (which is standard in America) but hadn't done so yet. The cost of doing it was passed on to customers who rightly pointed out that when animals die in the reservoir nothing like that is done, and that this was a clear overreaction. The person responsible for the decision said it was just the "yuck factor" made them do it for this.

I read up on it after the post yesterday!

iLikeWaffles

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

It was actually after it has been purified, they were supposed to be moving to underground storage (which is standard in America) but hadn't done so yet. The cost of doing it was passed on to customers who rightly pointed out that when animals die in the reservoir nothing like that is done, and that this was a clear overreaction. The person responsible for the decision said it was just the "yuck factor" made them do it for this.

I read up on it after the post yesterday!

That can not be real. Although is so stupid it might actually be.

Ipso

What we now know as Traditional Chinese Medicine isn't that traditional.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/10/25/chairman-mao-inventor-of-traditional-chinese-medicine/

Realt Dearg Sec

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/17/water-reservoir-urination/7814581/

There's the article with the quote, although the number of millions of gallons drained is different, so maybe it's a different incident but no article with the amount in the op came up. Anyway the quote and all are in there.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/17/water-reservoir-urination/7814581/

There's the article with the quote, although the number of millions of gallons drained is different, so maybe it's a different incident but no article with the amount in the op came up. Anyway the quote and all are in there.

Article is 38million US Gallons. The OP said 150M litres.

38m gallons = 144m litres. Close enough.

Realt Dearg Sec

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/17/water-reservoir-urination/7814581/

There's the article with the quote, although the number of millions of gallons drained is different, so maybe it's a different incident but no article with the amount in the op came up. Anyway the quote and all are in there.

Article is 38million US Gallons. The OP said 150M litres.

38m gallons = 144m litres. Close enough.

I did not know that. Thread title checks out!

Capt'n Midnight

In three summer months in 2015 alone five tonnes of sand was seized at Elmas airport in Sardinia.



From Black Books 2002
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526549/quotes

Book Return Man: [brings back copy of Tempocalypse] I bought this for a friend, and they didn't want it, i was wondering if i could exchange it, preferably for the money

Bernard: [grabs the book and begins flicking through it rapidly then stops] Aha! sand!

[collects some onto his finger]

Bernard: Manny!

[sprinkles it into manny's mouth]

Manny: [tasting the sand] Sardinia... South... Porto Scuzo... The little beach by the monastery.

Bernard: [to customer] Get out!

[shoves his book back into his hands]

Book Return Man: Damn!

[leaves]

ArnoldJRimmer

The singer Dido had a son in 2011 and named him Stan

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

One of the deadliest ever mass shootings (And the worst ever until the 2011 Norway attacks) took place in South Korea in 1982. A former marine who was serving as a police officer took weapons from the military reserve stockpile and killed 56 people.

bonzodog2

North Korea captured a US Navy ship, the USS Pueblo, in 1968, and still have it

Conchir

bonzodog2 wrote: »

North Korea captured a US Navy ship, the USS Pueblo, in 1968, and still have it

As the North Koreans still hold the ship, it remains in commission by the US Navy, and is therefore the second oldest US ship in commission. Compare that to the other two ships in its class, which were struck off in 1969.

donegaLroad

In September 1944, the SS Empire Heritage, a cargo ship carrying oil, US-made Sherman tanks was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank just off Malin Head.

65 metres below on the sea bed, there is a Sherman tank graveyard which was photographed by a dive team in 2010.

New Home

Tigger

cdeb wrote: »

John William Friso (1687-1711), son of William of Orange, is a direct ancestor of every single hereditary European monarch today.

He's also a direct ancestor of many other, now defunct, European monarchies such as Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_descendants_of_John_William_Friso

So william is as well
Being the father and all

Realt Dearg Sec

Tigger wrote: »

cdeb wrote: »

John William Friso (1687-1711), son of William of Orange, is a direct ancestor of every single hereditary European monarch today.

He's also a direct ancestor of many other, now defunct, European monarchies such as Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_descendants_of_John_William_Friso

So william is as well
Being the father and all

But then his father would be too, and his, and his, and so on, and the same for his mother and hers, and hers. Could someone who understands ancestry explain why this is incorrect? I'm presuming it must be or there wouldn't be a reason to single out friso (or anyone else for that matter).

Edit: nevermind, friso is the most recent common ancestor. That's what makes him significant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor

Natalie Imbruglias Torn is actually a cover. It was originally released by a Danish group called Ednaswap in 1995.