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**Waaagh_Gonads**

Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until its independence in 1822.

**focusedfire**

Waaagh_Gonads is SkyNet and when he reaches 50,000 posts sometime in late 2012, its zero hour.

**Miguelsan**

Just found this reading the newspaper

"It found (a tech support company) that its helplines were busiest between 11.40am and 11.56am on Christmas morning, with the most calls logged at around 11.48am"

M.

**Miguelsan**

The Todaiji Temple in Nara is the biggest wooden building in the world and houses the biggest bronze statue of Buda.

M.

**Greebynog**

Facetious is the shortest word in the English language to contain all the vowels in order.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

There are two varieties of Latin: Classical Latin, the literary dialect used in poetry and prose, and Vulgar Latin, the form of the language spoken by ordinary people.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Sophomore is a term used to describe a second effort, instance, or release. Its most common usage is in the United States as a noun meaning a student in the second year of study.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

With inflation, the cost of the Louisiana purchase would have been equal to $278 million in 2007.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Coors Light, is Coors' top selling brand, and the third-best selling beer in the United States

**Waaagh_Gonads**

As of December 2008 Missouri has the second-lowest cigarette excise taxes in the United States (behind only South Carolina) at 17 cents per pack.

**Imperial**

The champions RPG games is currently owned by cryptic studios

**Imperial**

Cryptic studios is making a Champions online game which will likely kill city of heroes

**Imperial**

The first patriotic comic book character was the shield form MLJ comics AKA Archie comics and not Captain America from Marvel

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The Act of Supremacy November 1534 (26 Hen. 8, c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII declaring that he was 'the only supreme head on earth of the Church in England' and that the English crown shall enjoy "all honours, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities to the said dignity."

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The Philippines constitutes an archipelago of 7,107 islands.

**Waaagh_Gonads** · The Reconquista came to an end on January 2, 1492 with the conquest of Granada.

The Reconquista came to an end on January 2, 1492 with the conquest of Granada.

**Miguelsan**

Acording to Arabic sources the last king of Hispania Roderic lost the battle of Guadalete when his 100.000 men strong army facing 12.000 muslims decided to shettle some issues about whom killed the father of who instead of fighting the muslim raiders.
That battle allowed the Moors to conquer almost the entire country.

M.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:There are two varieties of Latin: Classical Latin, the literary dialect used in poetry and prose, and Vulgar Latin, the form of the language spoken by ordinary people.

according to the Latin class i took in school, the two varieties of Latin, are Ecclesiastic Latin, and Classical... the major differences being the pronunciation of certain letters...(ie. the J in classical is silent, whereas in ecclesiastic it has a hard J sound...so in classical julius would be pronounced Yulius)

**reds8n**

The following :

Gibraltar Steamship Company
Air America
Brewster Jennings and Associates
Aroundworld Shipping Inc.
Consultants International Inc.
Delex International Corporations
Egyptian-American Transport Service Company
Inter-Technology Inc.
Sciebtific Communications Inc.
Systems Services International

Are all former (? ) C.I.A. front companies.

**lolzman**

Kilkrazy wrote:The Italian language only contains about 100,000 words.

here our some of there words
and 50,000 thousand of them translate into this "love,love,love"

**Greebynog**

Over 1% of the American population is in prison.

**Greebynog**

'Gay' is the most commonly used insult in British schools.

**Greebynog**

Carrots used to be purple.

**Greebynog**

English is the language of space.

**Greebynog**

There are 109 journeys between London tube stations that are quicker to walk.

**Greebynog**

1.3 million unopened yoghurts are thrown away each day in Britain.

**Greebynog**

The royal family costs each British person 66p per year.

**Greebynog**

Pears sink while apples float.

**Greebynog**

Liz Taylor has broken her back 5 times.

**Greebynog**

Since 1960 8,000 people have managed to eat a 72oz steak, with all the trimmings, in under an hour.