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For we've slaved away four years of our life and earned about three pound ten
I have a sore throat and a steadily climbing fever and just discovered I missed a documentary on whaling tonight. It had better re-air. Preferably at some point when I can focus on the screen. Today: not success. Tell me something historically weird.
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* The bit where General Bokasa proclaimed that the Central African Republic was now an empire, with himself (of course) as Emperor? That was pretty screwed-up. (And he wasn't even necessarily Africa's craziest dictator...)
* The fact that Mohamad Siad Barre of Somalia abruptly switched (officially) from being a socialist to being a staunch anti-Communist (and US ally) when he invaded socialist Ethiopia? There's some black humor in that.
* The fact that fighting in the Swabian War of 1499 was only touched off when somebody made a cow joke?
* More happily: that one of my more distant ancestors was a co-founder of the town of Holderness, which I drive through three times a week? (I still haven't told PSU's resident colonial historian...)
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. . . What was the joke?
that one of my more distant ancestors was a co-founder of the town of Holderness, which I drive through three times a week?
That's neat! Also, you are descended from someone named Hercules Mooney.
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That's kind of awesome.
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That's brilliant. Did you know before you moved to the area?
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