Was that just for Liiya, or can I enjoy that article too?
As Queen, Liiya has the option to enact the right of Prima Readthrough, so you have to wait until she's finished with the article
Eff that what did we fight the War of 1812 for then?!
For the privilege of being ruled by Liiya. I'm pretty sure that when Queenie dies and Charlie gets the throne a bunch of countries are gonna go Republic rather than keep the crown as head of state.
Vaguely on topic, I got stuck on Wikipedia and discovered that the Queen of New Zealand is technically a distinct position from the Queen of England, despite being the same person. I find that interesting.
Vaguely on topic, I got stuck on Wikipedia and discovered that the Queen of New Zealand is technically a distinct position from the Queen of England, despite being the same person. I find that interesting.
She has a lot of distinct positions beyond simply that of the UK, even if they all follow the same rules of succession:
Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St.Lucia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and St.Kitts and Nevis, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Duchess of Edinburgh, Countess of Merioneth, Baroness Greenwich, Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Sovereign of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, Sovereign of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Sovereign of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Sovereign of the Order of British India, Sovereign of the Indian Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Burma, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.
If you remember the friend I complained about who is anti-skeptic to the point of believing that the recent possible discovery of a new ninth planet justifies all the old Planet X and Nemesis nonsense, he recently used this interesting thing to be all, "Skeptics would be going in if you told them there you saw a jaguar in the wild in Arizona. Another example of why you should not ridicule people and keep an open mind."
These jaguars were native to the region and are/were endangered!
They're not some fucking cryptozoological myth!
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Yeah I was actually a little sad when I read the bit saying the various domains have an agreement that they only change the succession rules if everyone agrees. I was kind of hoping somewhere hadn't applied the recent changes so that at some point down the line the monarchy would end up split.
For a longtime the British Monarchy also claimed to be King of France.
and for a while the Kings of England ruled more of French territory than the King of France did.
Yeah, the much-like-the-Byzantines-named-after-the-fact Angevin Empire. Henry II being technically a vassal to the French King in his French lands but ruling as his own man in England.
And then where the vestigial claim actually comes from, Henry V successfully warring and being named as heir to the French Throne, dying two months before he could claim it and unfortunately nine month old babbys are not good at defending such claims.
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Yeah I was actually a little sad when I read the bit saying the various domains have an agreement that they only change the succession rules if everyone agrees. I was kind of hoping somewhere hadn't applied the recent changes so that at some point down the line the monarchy would end up split.
This has actually happened in the past, which is probably why such an agreement exist now.
So, in 1714 after some serious political wrangling (mostly involving Scottish trade rights in English colonial territory, with a healthy dose of keeping those damn Catholic Stuarts off the throne) Georg Ludwig Elector-Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (usually referred to as Hanover, for reasons) ascended the throne of a newly united Kingdom of Great Britain as George I. It was a bit messy importing a German King to rule Britain, but hey, better than a Catholic am I right? However, George, or Georg, still remained Elector-Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and for the next hundred or so years the house of Hanover ruled both Britain and their little Duchy in Germany, plus whatever other possessions they picked up as time went on. There is a brief intermission between 1807 and 1813 during which time Napoleon is doing his best to redraw the map of Europe, and being mostly always at war with Britain he organized the Kingdom of Westphalia out of former Brunswick-Lüneburg and some Prussian territory and gave it to his little brother to rule. After Bonaparte got his ass kicked out of France (twice) the Congress of Vienna in 1814 gave the area back to King George III of Great Britain, but they dispensed with the unwieldy Brunswick-Lüneburg name and just called it the Kingdom of Hanover (it also got quite a bit bigger, since a fair number of nearby smaller German polities had remained loyal to Napoleon for a bit too long).
All was well until 1837 when Willaim IV died, in Great Britain the succession law allowed for female inheritance so Queen Victoria took the throne. In Hanover however, inheritance law required all male relatives to be dead before a female could inherit, so Victoria's uncle Ernest Augustus took the throne in Hanover ending it's personal union with Great Britain. (In 1866, devoid of any British interest in defending it, Hanover gets overrun and annexed again, this time by the Kingdom of Prussia, who was doing rather a lot of that sort of thing in those days).
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The gif itself is 2mb so I can't link it directly, but there's a really neat visualization of the radioactivity emitted by a chunk of uranium at C&EN's Chemistry in Pictures feature:
RADIOACTIVITY LIVE!
In this short movie, you can watch radioactivity in action thanks to a cloud chamber, a plastic box cooled to –30 °C and filled with isopropyl alcohol vapor. For this demonstration, Julien Simon placed a 0.3-cm³ lump of a radioactive uranium-containing mineral called uraninite inside the chamber. α-Particles and β-particles—the two kinds of radiation given off by uranium-235 and uranium-238—hurdle through the chamber, hitting the alcohol molecules floating around. Because the particles are charged, they rip electrons off or add electrons to the alcohol molecules. This in turn gives the molecules a charge, which then makes them attract noncharged molecules around them. When the molecules bunch together, they make visible white clouds that trace the paths of the ejected particles. α-Particles produce straight, thick clouds, while β-particles create longer, more erratic ones.
Credit: Julien Simon
all this talk of smallpox was makin' me legit nervous until I remembered I got vaccinated against it
I recently learned that the vaccine only bestows full immunity for like a decade. So I guess it's about time for me to stop playing in abandoned biological warfare labs.
all this talk of smallpox was makin' me legit nervous until I remembered I got vaccinated against it
I recently learned that the vaccine only bestows full immunity for like a decade. So I guess it's about time for me to stop playing in abandoned biological warfare labs.
You are a complete buzzkill and you are absolutely ruining Tuesday Night Urban Exploration and Possible Contamination.
all this talk of smallpox was makin' me legit nervous until I remembered I got vaccinated against it
I recently learned that the vaccine only bestows full immunity for like a decade. So I guess it's about time for me to stop playing in abandoned biological warfare labs.
You are a complete buzzkill and you are absolutely ruining Tuesday Night Urban Exploration and Possible Contamination.
Look, I didn't make the vaccine! You're not the only one who is going to have to find a new way to spend Tuesday nights, you know.
all this talk of smallpox was makin' me legit nervous until I remembered I got vaccinated against it
I recently learned that the vaccine only bestows full immunity for like a decade. So I guess it's about time for me to stop playing in abandoned biological warfare labs.
You are a complete buzzkill and you are absolutely ruining Tuesday Night Urban Exploration and Possible Contamination.
Look, I didn't make the vaccine! You're not the only one who is going to have to find a new way to spend Tuesday nights, you know.
Speaking of vaccines, my brother-in-law, who I am no fan of, posted on Facebook asking if anybody knew anything about a delayed vaccination program because he didn't believe in vaccination and now his kid is getting close to public school age and he's gotta go get them shots!
My wife showed it to me and I laughed for a solid minute.
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I dunno man, I was just driving down the street and there it was. I snapped a quick pic for you, but was caught behind other cars at a light. But you have a last known location so you can get the feds on the case: Grand Theft Reese's.
Speaking of vaccines, my brother-in-law, who I am no fan of, posted on Facebook asking if anybody knew anything about a delayed vaccination program because he didn't believe in vaccination and now his kid is getting close to public school age and he's gotta go get them shots!
My wife showed it to me and I laughed for a solid minute.
Sounds like his kid has a few really awful doctor's visits coming up. :bigfrown:
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I'm not sure Id want to rule #1 or #2, but each to their own, I'm not in to kink shaming
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A portion of DJ Kool Herc's old block in the Bronx - 1520 Sedgwick Ave. - is going to be renamed Hip Hop Boulevard.
What with it being the birthplace of hip hop and all.
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Hello again bird thread. Remember me? Anyway, enough chatting; here's a yellow warbler:
Yellow warblers are one of many species brown-headed cowbirds parasitize by laying eggs in their nests. When yellow warblers notice this, they just build a new nest on top of the old nest.
In one recorded case, a warbler built five consecutive nests atop the first because the cowbirds just wouldn't give up. The little warbler wouldn't give up either.
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Eff that what did we fight the War of 1812 for then?!
They call it 'the war of across the pond aggression' in England
For the privilege of being ruled by Liiya. I'm pretty sure that when Queenie dies and Charlie gets the throne a bunch of countries are gonna go Republic rather than keep the crown as head of state.
Vaguely on topic, I got stuck on Wikipedia and discovered that the Queen of New Zealand is technically a distinct position from the Queen of England, despite being the same person. I find that interesting.
She has a lot of distinct positions beyond simply that of the UK, even if they all follow the same rules of succession:
Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St.Lucia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and St.Kitts and Nevis, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Duchess of Edinburgh, Countess of Merioneth, Baroness Greenwich, Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Sovereign of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Sovereign of the Distinguished Service Order, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, Sovereign of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Sovereign of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Sovereign of the Order of British India, Sovereign of the Indian Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Burma, Sovereign of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert, Sovereign of the Royal Family Order of King Edward VII, Sovereign of the Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Sovereign of the Royal Victorian Order, Sovereign of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.
and for a while the Kings of England ruled more of French territory than the King of France did.
Especially the parts where the good booze was made
What? I'm just sayin'
If you remember the friend I complained about who is anti-skeptic to the point of believing that the recent possible discovery of a new ninth planet justifies all the old Planet X and Nemesis nonsense, he recently used this interesting thing to be all, "Skeptics would be going in if you told them there you saw a jaguar in the wild in Arizona. Another example of why you should not ridicule people and keep an open mind."
These jaguars were native to the region and are/were endangered!
They're not some fucking cryptozoological myth!
Yeah, the much-like-the-Byzantines-named-after-the-fact Angevin Empire. Henry II being technically a vassal to the French King in his French lands but ruling as his own man in England.
And then where the vestigial claim actually comes from, Henry V successfully warring and being named as heir to the French Throne, dying two months before he could claim it and unfortunately nine month old babbys are not good at defending such claims.
This has actually happened in the past, which is probably why such an agreement exist now.
So, in 1714 after some serious political wrangling (mostly involving Scottish trade rights in English colonial territory, with a healthy dose of keeping those damn Catholic Stuarts off the throne) Georg Ludwig Elector-Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (usually referred to as Hanover, for reasons) ascended the throne of a newly united Kingdom of Great Britain as George I. It was a bit messy importing a German King to rule Britain, but hey, better than a Catholic am I right? However, George, or Georg, still remained Elector-Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and for the next hundred or so years the house of Hanover ruled both Britain and their little Duchy in Germany, plus whatever other possessions they picked up as time went on. There is a brief intermission between 1807 and 1813 during which time Napoleon is doing his best to redraw the map of Europe, and being mostly always at war with Britain he organized the Kingdom of Westphalia out of former Brunswick-Lüneburg and some Prussian territory and gave it to his little brother to rule. After Bonaparte got his ass kicked out of France (twice) the Congress of Vienna in 1814 gave the area back to King George III of Great Britain, but they dispensed with the unwieldy Brunswick-Lüneburg name and just called it the Kingdom of Hanover (it also got quite a bit bigger, since a fair number of nearby smaller German polities had remained loyal to Napoleon for a bit too long).
All was well until 1837 when Willaim IV died, in Great Britain the succession law allowed for female inheritance so Queen Victoria took the throne. In Hanover however, inheritance law required all male relatives to be dead before a female could inherit, so Victoria's uncle Ernest Augustus took the throne in Hanover ending it's personal union with Great Britain. (In 1866, devoid of any British interest in defending it, Hanover gets overrun and annexed again, this time by the Kingdom of Prussia, who was doing rather a lot of that sort of thing in those days).
http://cen.chempics.org/post/138117531671/radioactivity-live-in-this-short-movie-you-can
I recently learned that the vaccine only bestows full immunity for like a decade. So I guess it's about time for me to stop playing in abandoned biological warfare labs.
http://www.cracked.com/article_22142_5-badass-facts-about-women-that-history-books-leave-out_p3.html
The Scythians were awesome, FYI
You are a complete buzzkill and you are absolutely ruining Tuesday Night Urban Exploration and Possible Contamination.
Look, I didn't make the vaccine! You're not the only one who is going to have to find a new way to spend Tuesday nights, you know.
Who's going to do the potluck now?!?
You bring your book of necromancy that you found in the attic of that house on the hill and I'll bring the group of witless college students.
You'll know it's me because I'll have them all in my white-panel-van that has 'Free Candy' painted on the side.
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THE STASH WAS IN THE VAN!!!
If it was the Reeses stash they'd hear the screams in Mongolia.
This is what we call putting all your eggs in one basket. Or van as the case may be.
My wife showed it to me and I laughed for a solid minute.
Aw man, they got the eggs? Those are Reeses' best product!
I dunno man, I was just driving down the street and there it was. I snapped a quick pic for you, but was caught behind other cars at a light. But you have a last known location so you can get the feds on the case: Grand Theft Reese's.
A guy I knew in college had one that had Danger Cart spray painted on it.
but they're listening to every word I say
Sounds like his kid has a few really awful doctor's visits coming up. :bigfrown:
I found what happened to the Reese's. It isn't pretty. In fact, it's downright weird and borderline disturbing.
Twitter: @LittleWren42
What with it being the birthplace of hip hop and all.
Yellow warblers are one of many species brown-headed cowbirds parasitize by laying eggs in their nests. When yellow warblers notice this, they just build a new nest on top of the old nest.
In one recorded case, a warbler built five consecutive nests atop the first because the cowbirds just wouldn't give up. The little warbler wouldn't give up either.