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That's because James chickened out and ran off to France when he saw William's army. And since when are revolutions necessarily non-bloody?
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A revolution may be bloody, but if the spur for the revolution comes from abroad, you have an invasion. All invasions are met with a large army of the loyalists, and the two duke it out. We see this in 1066, both at Normandy, and at Stamford Bridge.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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William was invited, therefore, it was not an invasion.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Did the hardest one first. Did I just get an easy one?
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1 - Which is the northernmost Chinese province? - Correct
Jilin
Heilongjiang
Hebei
Jiangxi
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2 - Roughly how many French soldiers are currently enforcing the cease-fire in Ivory Coast? - Correct
Less than a hundred
Five hundred
Just over one thousand five hundred
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3 - When did Brunei become independent? - Correct
It has been independent since the Middle-Ages
1925
1947
1984
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4 - Which balkan nation has failed to elect a president three times in just over a year due to insufficent voter turnout? - Correct
Croatia
Serbia-Montenegro
Slovenia
Kosovo
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5 - Which of these areas is not under dispute between China and Russia? - Correct
Ili Valley in Central Asia
Islands on the Amur river
Outer Mongolia
Russian Maritime Province
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6 - Which Dutch Prime Minister resigned in 2002, along with his governement, following the publication of a report accusing his governement's mismanagement of Dutch peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia of having provoked the Srebrenica massacre? - Correct
Wim Kok
Van den Berg
Jan Peter Balkenende
Eveline Herfkens
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7 - In 2002, Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidential election. What other candidate did he beat in the second round? - Correct
Jose Serra
Anthony Garotinho
Ciro Gomes
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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8 - Of the following countries, which intervened in the Congolese Civil War? - Correct
Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola
Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Angola
Rwanda, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola
Rwanda, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Angola
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9 - Who is the president of the main Japanese opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan? - Correct
Naoto Kan
Katsuya Okada
Heizo Takenaka
Mitsuo Horiuchi
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10 - Who are the two vice-Presidents of the European Commission? - Correct
Pascal Lamy (France) and Günter Verheugen (Germany)
Loyola de Palacio (Spain) and Michel Barnier (France)
Chris Patten (UK) and Antonio Vitorino (Portugal)
Neil Kinnock (UK) and Loyola de Palacio (Spain)
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11 - Where is the Asian Development Bank headquartered? - Correct
Singapore
Tokyo
Manila
Bangkok
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12 - With which nation did Japan recently conclude a Free Trade agreement? - Correct
Singapore
South Korea
Philippines
Thailand
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13 - Which French daily was accused of conflict of interests and biased objectivity in a best-seller published in 2003? - Correct
Libération
Le Monde
Le Figaro
La Tribune
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14 - Which activity as a student and young adult helped shape Chief Justice Margaret Marshall's (of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) views? - Correct
She was a leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa
She was involved in the organisation of several import anti-Vietnam War manifestations
She served as a nurse in the Doctors without Borders organisation
She created an anti-death penalty organisation
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California
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Willem I van Oranje-Nassau
Van Oldernbarneveldt
Thorbecke
De Witth
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Slovenia, with 85.6%
Lithuania, with 89.92%
Hungary, with 95.3%
Slovakia, with 92.4%
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18 - In Korea, what is known as the Hangul? - Correct
The writing system
The traditional military formation.
The agricultural system.
The tax collection system.
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A British judge refused to extradite him to Russia
He was killed by the Russian army
He was accused by Russia of having participated in the organisation of the Moscow Theater hostage-taking
Russia announced his surrendering, announcement which he promptly denied
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Not by the gov't. That's like saying the INC invited the US to Iraq, thus it wasn't an invasion.William was invited, therefore, it was not an invasion."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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There was a revolution in England, and then William was invited..thus NOT an invasion.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Why are you posting the test?Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Parliamentary forces didn't take control from James till after William brought his army. So it was an invasion.There was a revolution in England, and then William was invited..thus NOT an invasion."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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And William brought his army with the support of people within England. Just give it up Ramo: even the English know that wasn't whatn one calls an invasion.Originally posted by Ramo
Parliamentary forces didn't take control from James till after William brought his army. So it was an invasion.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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A Scandinavian is a native of Denmark, Sweden, Norway or Iceland, and as Ramo said, it has something to do with the languages rather than the Scandinavian peninsula. As Finnish is grotesque, Finland couldn't possibly be Scandinavian.Comment
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Oh, and Ben Kenobi,
...and I'm wondering where was Sweden's colony? Greenland from when they took over Denmark?
Now I have to succumb to national pride and say that never happened
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About William III: whatever you call it, invasion or not, we're still proud of it... And Northern Ireland is still suffering because of it
Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
Once again...Comment
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Yeah, your colony in Greenland folded up tents and went home.Now I have to succumb to national pride and say that never happened
Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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Yeah, your colony in Greenland folded up tents and went home.
I read it a couple times but I really can't figure out what you're trying to say here. Maybe I shouldn't stay up this late...
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It's an expression.
'Fold up tents' means to give up.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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