I got it right away — but have no idea why. Never heard of it before. Although now that I think about it, must have simply been a deduction from the dynamic historic period.
I had never heard of this, but I assume it was some type of metric calendar. That's when they converted to metric units of measure. Guess people had no interest in trying to convert dates.
They wanted to have more productivity and tried to rationalize the calendar. Instead of having 1 day off every 7 days (sunday), it was just 1 every 10 and they got rid of all religious holidays too.
Seems that they tried to change too much too quickly so it backfired as with several other revolutionary ideas they had.
That was the one I thought scored so low on a trivia quiz site ! I think it actually is one of the "interesting facts" that appears on the site. (not 100% though, but I feel like I have come across it quite a lot lately and that is the best explanation I can think off, coming across it quite a lot of times on different days ( so not one big research topic or something)
Napoleon is actually the one who went back on it. Also, under the Republican calendar, people had two free days every ten days, which was more than the previous one day out of seven.
Regardless of practicality, it's a beautiful and rational calendar. The year was divided into twelve even thirty-day months, which were each divided into three decades (in French, a decade is a period of ten days, while a décennie is ten years). The months had beautiful names associated with the seasons, such as Nivôse (month of snow) or Floréal (the month of flowers). The first of the month was always a Primidi, the second always a Duodi, the 13th always a Tridi and so forth. The days ending in 1 through 4 and 6 through 9 paid homage to seasonal plants (instead of stupid saints), the days in 5 paid homage to animals, and the one in 0 to tools. The last 5 days of the year were a special holiday, and were named respectively for Virtue, Genius, Labour, Opinion, and Rewards. Every four years, an extra day, the Day of the Revolution, was added.
I, for example, was born on a day honouring Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, which undoubtedly sucks - whereas in the Republican Calendar, I was born on Tridi 13th Thermidor (month of warmth), which happened to be the Day of the Apricot, and I think that's way more beautiful.
Belgium isn't the capital of anything, and Brussels is not the "de-facto-capital" of anything either. Brussels is the capital of Belgium, and the executive capital of the European Union, Strasbourg being the legislative and Luxembourg the judiciary capital.
I italicise my text by adding < i > at the start and at the end of the text I want to italicise (without the spaces). For bolding I do the same by with the letter 'b'. (I learned this from editing Wikipedia)
Btw in your argument a year is still a year, so even if our deaths were "set", like everybody dies at 80, no matter what. It still wouldnt make our lives shorter. (unless it is set at X weeks, but nobody counts like that even now)
Taiwan wasn't kicked out. The PRC was recognized as the legitimate representative of China (mainland and Taiwan). Until then, the ROC was the representative for all of China.
Per Wikipedia the were kicked out because the ROC is Taiwan. The committee asked to “restore to the People's Republic of China all its rights and expel forthwith the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek.”
That's not a contradiction. Both the PRC and the ROC claimed to represent all of China, including Taiwan. After a vote, this representation was transferred to the PRC. So, in no sense was Taiwan kicked out.
Wow, Quizmaster used Belgium to be the first option, he didn’t argued in comments about it, and in the First Page you can clearly see he saying about the question of Belgium. This must be the first time...
To be exact, Taiwan was not kicked out of the United Nations - GA Resolution decided the question of which government represented the country of China.
PREVENT famine. Or PROVIDE famine relief. (Rather than "The Live Aid concerts of the 1980s were meant to prevent famine relief for this country.") Distribution of the money accomplished the prevention of famine relief, if memory serves, but that was definitely not the intent.
Seems that they tried to change too much too quickly so it backfired as with several other revolutionary ideas they had.