Metal Geir Skogul posted:

No, I mean, MapQuest?

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

Do you have many tobacco farmers in Denmark?

Powaqoatse posted:

In Denmark, the original tobacco farmers were all Calvinists & Huegenots. I guess they had the experience from the southern lands: the Netherlands and France (!?). Otherwise, they'd have to be lutheran to get permission to settle, if not they had a skill that would better Denmark or something like that

weird & dumb, but that was how it was

Hogge Wild posted:

was it n. tabacum or n. rustica?

and did denmark have a jew quota like sweden?

Hogge Wild posted:

was it n. tabacum or n. rustica?

and did denmark have a jew quota like sweden?

Powaqoatse posted:

In Denmark, the original tobacco farmers were all Calvinists & Huegenots.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

says he works for them.

It's the only reason I ever see anyone use Bing.

Alhazred posted:

A while back I discovered that a branch of my family tree were huguenots, they even had a coat of arms:

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

That's rad!

Alhazred posted:

A while back I discovered that a branch of my family tree were huguenots, they even had a coat of arms:

Powaqoatse posted:

I dont think any of my direct family had coats of arms, but I am told that the wife of Gabriel Milan, an early governor of the Danish West Indies, and my supposed great-5 grandfather, his wife had "a negro head" for their coat of arms which is wrong and bad

Alhazred posted:

A while back I discovered that a branch of my family tree were huguenots, they even had a coat of arms:

Powaqoatse posted:

I remembered this & looked this up and it's pretty much the fuggedaboutit scene from Donnie Brasco:

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London is peculiarly fertile in this sort of phrases, which spring up suddenly, no one knows exactly in what spot, and pervade the whole population in a few hours, no one knows how. Many years ago the favourite phrase (for, though but a monosyllable, it was a phrase in itself) was QUOZ. This odd word took the fancy of the multitude in an extraordinary degree, and very soon acquired an almost boundless meaning. When vulgar wit wished to mark its incredulity and raise a laugh at the same time, there was no resource so sure as this popular piece of slang. When a man was asked a favour which he did not choose to grant, he marked his sense of the suitor's unparalleled presumption by exclaiming Quoz! When a mischievous urchin wished to annoy a passenger, and create mirth for his chums, he looked him in the face, and cried out Quoz! and the exclamation never failed in its object. When a disputant was desirous of throwing a doubt upon the veracity of his opponent, and getting summarily rid of an argument which he could not overturn, he uttered the word Quoz, with a contemptuous curl of his lip and an impatient shrug of his shoulders. The universal monosyllable conveyed all his meaning, and not only told his opponent that he lied, but that he erred egregiously if he thought that any one was such a nincompoop as to believe him. Every alehouse resounded with Quoz; every street corner was noisy with it, and every wall for miles around was chalked with it.

Sometimes it just means quoz.

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When a man was asked a favour which he did not choose to grant, he marked his sense of the suitor's unparalleled presumption by exclaiming deez nuts! When a mischievous urchin wished to annoy a passenger, and create mirth for his chums, he looked him in the face, and cried out deez nuts! and the exclamation never failed in its object. When a disputant was desirous of throwing a doubt upon the veracity of his opponent, and getting summarily rid of an argument which he could not overturn, he uttered the words deez nuts, with a contemptuous curl of his lip and an impatient shrug of his shoulders. The universal phrase conveyed all his meaning, and not only told his opponent that he lied, but that he erred egregiously if he thought that any one was such a nincompoop as to believe him. Every alehouse resounded with deez nuts; every street corner was noisy with it, and every wall for miles around was chalked with it.

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Kaisen Street runs between Peders Street and Upper Bane Street in downtown Stavanger. The street was named in 1861 after the master shipbuilder Knud Johannes Kaisen (1809-1902). He built his first ship when he was just 19 years old. Kaisen was an exceptionally able shipbuilder, and he was a wealthy man. However, he was kind and naive and was exploited by greedy speculants. He lost his fortune and died in the poorhouse. On the other hand, he lived to see a street named after him.

Zero One posted:

My family were also Huguenots but instead of becoming tobacco farmers in Denmark they moved to New York City. Besides fighting in every American war from the Revolution to Vietnam (and probably Iraq but I don't know any of those personally) the most famous member of my family was a composer in the 16th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehan_Chardavoine

chitoryu12 posted:

PYF Historical Fun Fact: Every alehouse resounded with deez nuts

Wheat Loaf posted:

bisexual | Robert Lowe | 11/04/1870

Wheat Loaf posted:

Corrode posted:

This is a fun little list. It's funny to think that Thatcher was well ahead of her time on climate change, at least to start with.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

This one legitimately surprised me, especially given that homosexual doesn't show up until 1936.

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The word "bisexual" was first used in its modern sense by the American neurologist Charles Gilbert Chaddock to describe someone that engaged in sexual activity with both male and female partners in his 1892 translation of Kraft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis. Prior to this, "bisexual" was usually used to mean hermaphroditic.

Wheat Loaf posted:

Here's an interesting picture I found earlier:

1stGear posted:

On one hand, yes the length of the battle lines is impressive. On the other hand, holy gently caress the continental US is gigantic.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

If memory serves California is bigger than Italy. California, if it were its own country, would be like the world's sixth largest economy.

Yeah America is not a small nation. Part of the reason we became a superpower was just because we had so drat much land to use and all the cool resources that came with it.

PMush Perfect posted:

And the lack of moral integrity necessary to enslave an entire race to actually work that land.

Most of the reason that the south is so racist is that it was almost literally built on the backs of racism.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

If memory serves California is bigger than Italy. California, if it were its own country, would be like the world's sixth largest economy.

Yeah America is not a small nation. Part of the reason we became a superpower was just because we had so drat much land to use and all the cool resources that came with it.

chitoryu12 posted:

It's also why we seemingly can't get anything done. Every region is completely different from every other region in terms of climate, culture, and local politics. Getting everyone to agree on something is more like getting the EU to agree on something.

Hogge Wild posted:

indians were killed in north too