What's your country/state famous for?
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USA - Fat, inconsiderate, gun lovers.
WA state - Rain, strong coffee, Grunge Rock, and Twilight......bleh!
WA state - Rain, strong coffee, Grunge Rock, and Twilight......bleh!
The Ottoman Turks were invaders from the area I like to call Sythia (what's now the non-European former Soviet states). Prior to their aggressive immigration the area was inhabited mostly by the descendants of the Hittites, Assyrians and Greek colonists.Armored Prayer said:
My state is famous for every intact human and most cripples having a rough, unlabeled map of it at all times. Guess what it is (hint: it's a US state).
Whoo for being Irish also we're famous for drinking even though I don'tAgent Larkin said:
.Also for Collin Farrel
Saint Patrick's Day
Drink
Shamrocks
Father Ted
Being laid back apparently
Crap weather although thats not just us
And other things
Malta is famous for.. being a strategic position during wars. Aside from that, there is very little to say about us.
... Internet points to anyone who has heard about this island.
... Internet points to anyone who has heard about this island.
Colorado (or at least my tiny bit of it): The absolutely staggering military presence, Focus on the Family, New Life Church, more evangelicals than you'd think could fit in a city but somehow do, the same about radical right-wingers, an absolutely efdup public transit system, TABOR...
...oh, and something about mountains. And we hosted Worldcon last year. Well, my bit of it didn't, but it was only about an hour off.
...oh, and something about mountains. And we hosted Worldcon last year. Well, my bit of it didn't, but it was only about an hour off.
been there!!!HopeMedina said:
but tbh i dont know what to say about it too...only limestone and temples lol
Dracula
World's first jet powered aircraft - Henri Coanda
Holding off the Otoman Empire for a few hundred years from invading Europe, so the French could build castles
Gymnastics - Nadia Comaneci got the first perfect 10 at the Olympics
Inventing the worlds thinest LCD Screen (9mm i belive) and a car engine that runs on plain water (but no money to found the research >_>)
5-th country by Download Speed
Peniciline
First publicly electrically lit city in the world - Timisoara
Probably my bad spelling
LE: Hacking N.A.S.A.
Romania
World's first jet powered aircraft - Henri Coanda
Holding off the Otoman Empire for a few hundred years from invading Europe, so the French could build castles
Gymnastics - Nadia Comaneci got the first perfect 10 at the Olympics
Inventing the worlds thinest LCD Screen (9mm i belive) and a car engine that runs on plain water (but no money to found the research >_>)
5-th country by Download Speed
Peniciline
First publicly electrically lit city in the world - Timisoara
Probably my bad spelling
LE: Hacking N.A.S.A.
Romania
Awesome steak, cowboys, hockey, snowboarding/skiing, maple syrup, cows, being ridiculously cold, snow in July, Crazy-ass weather, being clean, and...I guess oil.
Calgary, Alberta.
Calgary, Alberta.
oh thanksHopeMedina said:
it appears in the new Splinter Cell teaser you know? i immediatly recognized it due to Gozo. that looks so iconic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQv9ojnvMQ
