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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7215 on: March 13, 2007, 09:50:58 AM »
I think it'd been great if Texas would've remained an independent republic, including the areas that were ceded from Texas to the Union in 1850. Though it most probably would've been annexed to the US by force. The violet area on this map is the territory of "Big Texas", just after the Mexican war.

The citizens of Texas voted for U. S. annexation and statehood, although they retain the right to divide into four additional states.

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/earlystate/annex-01.html

True and one other item that seems to get lost to the revisionist's efforts is the fact that, when Stephen F. Austin first went to Tejas (it was still Mexico), he had already been coached by Houston and other politicians on how to prepare the territory for statehood. Texas Statehood was his main goal, not real estate wealth.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7216 on: March 13, 2007, 09:58:14 AM »
Speaking of old maps, here is a map of Sweden from 1809, the year Finland was lost to Russia. It was after that Swedes became wimps for real:'(



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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7217 on: March 13, 2007, 10:04:29 AM »
Wow, that's huge.  Was all of the colored-in area part of Sweden then?

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« Reply #7218 on: March 13, 2007, 10:10:55 AM »
Yep, we had even more before that. Sweden was at its greatest in 1658.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7219 on: March 13, 2007, 10:12:32 AM »
Here is Sweden now:


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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7220 on: March 13, 2007, 10:26:14 AM »
Yep. As you can see, all of Finland and Estonia and parts of Livonia, Russia and Germany were once Swedish.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7221 on: March 13, 2007, 12:27:24 PM »
That was a long time ago.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7222 on: March 13, 2007, 12:29:58 PM »
Yep.  :(

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7223 on: March 13, 2007, 12:34:44 PM »
Nothing to be sad about. I'm a Finn, remember? ;)
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7224 on: March 13, 2007, 06:20:06 PM »

Where are all the road signs?

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7225 on: March 13, 2007, 06:21:54 PM »

Where are all the road signs?

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Litigious got some more speeding tickets.   ;)

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7226 on: March 13, 2007, 06:25:24 PM »
Yep. I blew them all up. Fuck you, Big Brother!  :angel: 8)

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7227 on: March 13, 2007, 08:35:37 PM »
I want to know if the greater hate I am detecting is just because I am listening more, or if there is actually more hate caused by things my country is doing that I might want to pay attention to and think about whether I am okay with it.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7228 on: March 13, 2007, 11:29:58 PM »
Yep. As you can see, all of Finland and Estonia and parts of Livonia, Russia and Germany were once Swedish.

I see the city of Bremen was part of Sweden. I've been there, I like that city.  8)

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #7229 on: March 14, 2007, 03:44:31 AM »
Yep, Bremen and its small neighbourtown Verden, Wismar, and all of western Pomerania became Swedish in the peace treaty of Westphalia 1648 after the 30th Year War. In those days, no-one thought of Swedes as cowards, but as the horror of Europe.  8)

Do you know that the Swedish army as one of very few actually captured Moscow in 1611? It had little political importance, though, since they had do withdraw after a short while.