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The flag of Sicily always reminds me of that time the Muppet Show decided to turn the relatively gentle, haunting melody of "Windmills of Your Mind" from "The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)" into a frenetic, fast-paced riot of a song sung by a screaming green thing with three legs (facing us - it...

Probably. The thing that's really bothering me is that I think the red in the French flag and the red in the rest of the flag are just slightly different.

Figures. 🤣

I don't have a map. Well, no, that's not true - I do have a map. But it's nothing spectacular. Basically, I didn't think it would be worth starting an entirely new thread. But I thought I'd share. I just stumbled across a website, purely by accident. I didn't know if anyone else came...

The flag of the United States of America - 56 stripes, one for each state (14 red diagonal down from left to right, 14 red diagonal down from right to left, 14 white diagonal down from left to right, 14 white diagonal down from right to left) with a central blue triangular field with a single...

No bacon double-cheeseburgers. 😭 Maybe just restrict that part to the season of Lent or something?

Well, for one thing, it would make the question of "What number president are we on?" a little easier to answer.

I wonder if they named it that because it means "good fortune" or did they name it after the Catholic saint?

Apparently, the most striking thing when settlers landed in what is now Boston was three hills. Not a lot of sources online that say which three, but Wikipedia's entry on the Shawmut Penninsula (where the original settlement was) says they are Copps Hill in the North End, Fort Hill, in the...

Tremontaine for Massachusetts (or, at least maybe the eastern part?)

It would explain that bit about the dog-headed men who grow spices.

Early ones were just a modification of the wine press, if I recall correctly? The principle would probably not be so strange. I think the big problem would probably be paper. People are still using vellum and parchment at this point, right?

Das Raumfüllende Reich? (hopefully Google translate did that right or the joke is completely lost 😆 ) On a more serious note - Danuvia? The river runs through all of the countries involved, right?

Uh-oh. I've been spelling this wrong my entire life ...

Wait! What era are we talking? What about: Napoleana! And then Vancouver could be Nouvelle-Corse!