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I mentioned Armenia.

 

And WTF is up with Congo and then it was called Zaire then the Democrcy of Congo then The Republic of Congo then the Democratic-Republic of Congo then to Flip-Flop land.

 

Fuck them in their ways.

 

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Renuion

Seychelles

Bhutan

Malaysia

Slovenia

Lebanon

Bhutan

Laos

France

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I mentioned Armenia.

 

And WTF is up with Congo and then it was called Zaire then the Democrcy of Congo then The Republic of Congo then the Democratic-Republic of Congo then to Flip-Flop land.

 

Fuck them in their ways.

 

Cote D'Ivore

Renuion

Seychelles

Bhutan

Malaysia

Slovenia

Lebanon

Bhutan

Laos

France

 

 

Nice.

 

Then again, people tend to remember Thailand & Singapore more, since we're sandwiched in between them.

 

Few years back, WWE made a stop at Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia) during a tour...we popped for everyone, even for Michael Cole. Oh, well...

 

Foley & Big Show made several promotional appearences in the past, too....seeing Show live is unbelievable.

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Laos is debatable, just because of King of the Hill

 

Gabon

Benin

Belarus

Georgia

Armenia

Togo

Mali

 

FUCK! A girl at the office had a tag on her jacket that said "to go", but I read it upside down and assumed it meant Togo. Subsequently, I was prime to post Benin as well.

 

Dammit I wanted to post those two.

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Turks & Caicos

Canary Islands

Cape Verde

Malta

Uganda

Fiji

Cameroon

Lapland

Kygrestan

Mongolia

Myanmar

Portugal (all it was, was a bunch of drunk Spanish people that decided to west, change its "z" to "s" and proclaim a new country.

Gaul

Hungary

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Will we ever figure out what the Basque language is related to?

 

It's got something to do with an area of land around the Spain/France border, which is where the Basque people live. Don't know why they don't just speak Spanish or French; their language must've just been around before the other ones got a hold.

 

Gaul

 

What, you mean France?

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apartheid

 

I don't think that's exactly right.

 

They had designated four areas because of apartheid, but no other country recognised them.

 

Swaziland(which does touch Mozambique) wasn't among them I dont think.

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Will we ever figure out what the Basque language is related to?

 

It's got something to do with an area of land around the Spain/France border, which is where the Basque people live. Don't know why they don't just speak Spanish or French; their language must've just been around before the other ones got a hold.

Okay, I know where the Basque country is. The conundrum is that the language is in no way related to anything in the Indo-European branch of languages, let alone the Romance family that includes Spanish, French, et al. It doesn't seem to be related to Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, or Caucasian languages, either.

 

Did you know that the indigenous population of Japan, the Ainu, is white? How strange. They seem to be very hairy folk who enjoy tattoos and hunting.

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One theory (which could very well be true) is that the Basques were in Europe much longer than any other of the surrounding tribes. That is why their culture and language are so different.

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apartheid

 

I don't think that's exactly right.

 

They had designated four areas because of apartheid, but no other country recognised them.

 

Swaziland(which does touch Mozambique) wasn't among them I dont think.

Is that what the Orange Free State is concerned with? That was the second error by an 8th-grade Czech Republic that bumped me out of the geography bee. The question, "other than Lesotho, which African nation has boundaries with only one other nation?" I thought it was the Orange Free State, it was The Gambia, I was outta there, and my lack of knowledge about Africa once again bit me in the ass.

 

The other one was "Where does the majority of Argentina's population come from?" Answer was Europe, I overshot the question and said Asia on the basis of the indigenous tribes arriving from across the Bering land bridge. Had I gotten that right I would've won my room with a perfect 20/20 and not forced the six-way tie that I fucked up on.

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Serbia & Montenegro

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Croatia

Latvia

Albania

Macedonia

Sri Lanka

Botswana

Cook Islands

Venezuela

Mongolia

American Samoa

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Chad

Lapland(i think)

Those two are three small countries in NE SA.

 

Isn't Lapland a region of Scandanavia? Like made up of a certain ethnic group that live in a few different area?

 

Chad is NNE Africa, indeed. Libya to the north, Niger to the west, Central African Republic to the south, Sudan to the East.

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