Countdown from 2000
I saw this on another forum and thought it was the silliest thing ever, but it seemed strangely fun as well (kind of like being drunk, I guess). Anyway, the idea is to just count down from 2000 to 1, one post at a time. The only rule, I suppose, is no double posting.
So –
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We are slowing down! Slowing down I say!!
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7 Nov 1659
Treaty of the Pyrenees
The Treaty of the Pyrenees is the last major diplomatic achievement by Cardinal Mazarin. Combined with the Peace of Westphalia, it allowed Louis XIV remarkable stability and diplomatic advantage by means of a weakened Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and a weakened Spanish Crown, along the agreed dowry, which was an important element in the French king’s strategy.
All in all, in 1660, when the Swedish occupation of Poland finished, the entire European continent was at peace, and the Bourbons prevailed for the first time over the Habsburgs.
In the context of the territorial changes involved by the Treaty, France got some territorial gains, both in its northern and southern borders.
In the north, France gained the French Flanders.
In the south, the pays of Roussillon, Conflent, Vallespir, Capcir and French Cerdagne, known nowadays in Catalonia as “Northern Catalonia” was transferred to France. Every year on 7 November, some Catalanists remember this event and demonstrate in Perpignan.
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English pamphleteer, journalist and novelist, at a time when the novel form was in its infancy in the English language, and can thus fairly be said to be one of its progenitors. Defoe’s pamphleting and political activities resulted in his arrest and imprisonment in 1703, but he was released early in return for his cooperation. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, about a man’s shipwreck on a desert island and his subsequent adventures. The story is based on the true story of the shipwreck of Alexander Selkirk. He wrote an account of the plague of 1666, A Journal of the Plague Year. He also wrote Moll Flanders, a picaresque first-person narration of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England. She is a whore, bigamist, thief, commits adultery and incest yet manages to keep the reader’s sympathy. It is arguably the first novel written in English. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Daniel Defoe.]
Hmmmm… Read This!! I found this quite fascinating!!!
http://russellmcneil.blogspot.com/2007/08/daniel-defoe-1660-1731.html
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The 1662 Common Book of Prayer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer
Just for a bit of history….
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300 years BS, that would be before SAW 😛 😛 😛
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and I would cheat, on Mrs. SAW if I could have one night with your Avatar
😈 😈 😈 😈 😈
SAW
Dammit Saw! No cheating! 😆 😆
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😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
2 birds with one stone
SAW
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