Was the south considered a foreign country during the civil war?

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Florida is invaded by the North every year.

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Scientists are still uncertain about the length of a Saturnian day.

And tomorrow [May 18] is my birthday.

The Japanese are among the world's most avid newspaper readers, with daily sales exceeding 70 million copies.

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Atlanta has the highest elevation of all the major US cities east of Denver.

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The Soviet-built Baikonur space center is still an important launch site for international missions. (Kazakhstan)

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The anti-Semitic Borat was played by a Jewish actor, Sacha Noam Baron Cohen.

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or Ali-G.

The Nabataean ruins of the ancient city of Petra attract thousands of tourists every year. (Jordan)

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The first primitive ski was found in a peat bog in Hoting, Sweden which dates back to 2500-4500 BCE.

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The roller skate was invented in Belgium in 1760 by a man named John Joseph Merlin.

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Italy was a collection of dukedoms, monarchies and city states before unification in the 1860's.

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There is no name for the back of the knee, other than, the back of the knee.

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The inventor of the lie detector also created the Wonder Woman character.

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The first post in this thread is a factually incorrect fact. (it's keratin)

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There are ~1100 billionaires world-wide.

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Those are also the place where the holy grail was hidden in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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OH! Indi.


Born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was already writing music by the age of five, and at eleven he produced his first opera.

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The Mayan underworld, Xibalba, has three rivers; one filled with scorpions, one filled with blood, and one filled with pus. It also has six houses; one filled with eternal darkness, one filled with bone-rattling cold, one filed with fire, one filled with razors, one filled with jaguars and one filled with vampire bats.

On the plus side, it also has a ball court.

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...who also enjoyed creating "automatons."

BTW, he "introduced" his rollerskates at a ball -- while playing the violin. Poor Mr. Merlin lost control and crashed into a big mirror.

Very interesting fellow.

Mozart was an early "music pirate" of sorts--the Vatican had a piece of music they would allow to be performed from time to time, but after the orchestra was done, they collected it and kept it locked to keep anybody else from performing it. Mozart could memorize orchestral music from one hearing, so he attended a performance and wrote it all down afterward. Now--I can't remember where I read this or how valid the source was....

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Mozart's sister, Nannerl, was also an accomplished musician. When children, she was part of the family trio which entertained nobility and royalty: Leopold (father), Nannerl and Wolfgang.