Random trivia

No prob, I will also dig up something older now:

about the Dutch:
IronDuke said:
No, they didn't really get to Nova Scotia.
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Hah, but they did get to (a part of) Newfoundland, where you suddenly seem to live instead of Nova Scotia :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%2 ... nd#History -->
The town's first significant defences were probably erected by commercial interests, following the temporary seizure of St. John's by the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter in June, 1665. Regardless of the identity of those who built the defenses, the inhabitants were able to fend off a second Dutch attack in 1673.
 
Dutchmen from New Amsterdam also attacked and burnt Lord Baltimore's colony of Ferryland, on the south side of the Avalon Penninsula. He got pissy and went to found Maryland
 
We must remember thst Africa is huge ;)  The problems in one country may not be the same as another.  Anyway, get back to your childish trivia game :P
 
Perun said:
(Sorry Forostar)

Just one last comment, Duke. Last year, the Kenyan harvest was big enough to comfortably feed the entire population. While in the southern parts of the country the granaries were bursting, the north was starving.
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Indeed, but if you're trying to use this to support your statement that there is no need for GM crops in Africa, I would make one point: there is no need (strictly speaking) for GM crops anywhere in the world.  There is enough food to go around for everyone with some to spare...our 'First' world is just too greedy to give it to people in Third World countries-our governments have to find some way to put a tax, or buy out, or any other means of making (or cheating!) money out of the LEDC Governments...when they [governments] actually want to help their country and don't just pocket any cash they get.  Then you get into the whole 'support our farmers or theirs' debate...bah.

Sorry about the off-topic.

EDIT: Blimey, I forgot why I had quoted Per in the first place.  Yes, there is enough food to go round, but while distribution is so unfair, LEDCs need all the help they can get.  High Yield Varieties of rice and grain are still necessary for many in the world.

Oh, and @Albie, I want to thank you for reading my commentary.  The fact that you had the perseverance to read through the tripe I put down there shows what a nice bloke you are ;)
 
ABandOn said:
Full credits to Albie for putting me on the right way to the answer  ;)
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I was hoping it would jolt someones memory. :ok:

Raven said:
Oh, and @Albie, I want to thank you for reading my commentary.  The fact that you had the perseverance to read through the tripe I put down there shows what a nice bloke you are ;)
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It was a good well written piece and I enjoyed the read.

On topic, I believe Onhell had a question that was unanswered. Is this to be tackled by someone?
 
Onhell said:
St. Dominic is credited for starting... you guessed it, the Dominican Order. However, who's idea was it to go out to the countryside and preach to the poor?
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I challenge the premise of the question. I have always thought that the Dominicans were more of and "urban" clergy than rural. That was the main criticism levied against them by the more established orders (like the Benedictines) was that they'd be seduced by the immorality of city life and fall from the monastic way.
As for whose idea any of it was, my guess would be Innocent III, but I'm not positive.
 
Duke, you should no better than to go by "what you thought". Do your research. And whether they were Urban or Rural is irrelevant... who started it?
 
Maybe Alfonso IX, King of Castile? He deputed Bishop of Osma, Don Diego d'Azevedo and St. Dominic to do a mission for him; when they passed through Toulouse and saw the effects of Albigensian heresy, St. Dominic had the idea of founding an order to fight them and spread the word of God.
In other words...
Constantin of Orvieto recalled in his book "Legenda S. Dominici" that while St. Dominic was praying in St. Peter's basilica, the apostles Peter and Paul appeared to him and told him to "go out and preach, because God chose him for that ministry".
I don't know..  ::)
 
I did not have a clue to this, so I did a small amount of research. I came up with a name St Vincent de Paul whose occupation was a "Priest and servant of the poor". However, he did do some writings that stated that Jesus himself would preach to the poor as he indeed was one of them (by his choice).

Both could be wrong, but I had to Google before this question died of loneliness.

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Onhell, where are you to shed light on some of our guesses?
 
Sorry guys I was at school. Abandon... you are REALLY, freaking BURNING HOT close!!!! it wasn't the king...
 
LOL, no Duke, you're off, HINT: read abandon's post ;)
Ok since NOBODY is getting it and only ONE person came close I'll give the answer. It was Dominic's Superior Diego of Osma or Diego d'Acevedo who, as Abandon mentioned, with Dominic was on a Mission from the king and on viewing the incredible ignorance amongst the peasant population had the idea of creating "poor houses" where they would house and teach poor and homeless country folk in the correct Catholic teachings. However, Diego died a year into this endeavor and since Dominic was the one to carry on the order got his name (not to mention he became saint...).
 
"I am the primary servant of my people."

These words and the attitude behind them are usually attributed to Frederick II of Prussia, and are held to be typical for the Enlightened Age.

However, this political philosophy was not new back then. Who is the earliest monarch to be credited with this?
 
Perun said:
"I am the primary servant of my people."

These words and the attitude behind them are usually attributed to Frederick II of Prussia, and are held to be typical for the Enlightened Age.

However, this political philosophy was not new back then. Who is the earliest monarch to be credited with this?
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Frederick II of Sicily, the "Holy Roman Emperor"?
 
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