Actually, sailing due west from Colombo, you'll find yourself in the Maldives. (And if you head west from there, you're likely to be hijacked by pirates.)
Ask any sailor from the 11th to 17th Centuries about the odds of not hitting a reef, if you try sailing there. The odds of getting to Somalia intact (without dodging) are slim.
Yup, I know. But, sailing west from Colombo, the odds of striking land (or coral) in the Maldives are very high. And once you strike a coral reef, you're not getting to Somalia.
Yep, and that's why the "Congo Free State" was in fact a lawless area, where overseers could exploit the indigenous populations with absolutely no mercy. I'm not sure that Leopold II himself really realized what was going on there before the scandal broke.
Well, I suppose he did know that a human zoo of Congolese people was on the grounds of his estate. That might be some indication of his concern for his Congolese wards in general. I'm not willing to give him any special consideration.
Okay, I still don't get it. There's little difference between the US and UK pronounciations of orange beyond the vowel sound. What they have most in common is that they are both two syllables. So what am I missing? Either way, "With monks who wear orange" is six syllables, not five. Help!
The pronunciation of "orange" in this case (I am Canadian so idk if it's the British of the American that I use) makes sense from my perspective, as I pronounce it as "ornge" rather than "O-range".
Brasilia is a planned city, carved out of the jungle in the 60s. The city planner used a cross axis design for the central part of the city and it resembles an airplane. It's quite a unique city, was fortunate to visit about 10 years ago.
well to be fair, cyprus should not be considered asian. HEAR ME OUT. The only difference between europe and asia is a cultural. youll never really find a clean border, like there is with africa and asia. and as cyprus is cultutrally european, you should consider it as that.
Yeah, it's complicated. Cyprus is more culturally European but geographically Asian. East Timor is more culturally Asian but geographically Oceanian. Jetpunk isn't really consistent with this stuff, determining Cyprus by its geography but determining East Timor by its culture.
geography is not a real science.. just ask How many continents there are? and a real expert will say ... uhm depends on what you want to do with that information.
The "Looks like gazpacho / but it's made with beets instead / our national dish", when u mean like Gazpacho i'm thinking about "cold" soup, because you don't eat the Gazpacho hot like borscht
And the clues clearly refer to lithuania's national soup, saltibarsiai, that are made of beets, is one of the national dishes and someway is similar to gazpacho (cough, cold).
Well, the phrase "looks like" doesn't point to temperature.
As for the clues, they *clearly* don't refer to saltibarsiai, as that is not the answer given (that is, the quiz maker *clearly* wasn't referring to that); but you could say that it is an alternate answer that should be equally valid. Then again, it doesn't much look like gazpacho.
Fun fact: the English version of a Haiku doesn't really match the Japanese definition. The Japanese Haiku doesn't take into account the ever present diphthong. "The highway cowboy" would count as 5 syllables in English, but would be 10 vowel sounds in Japanese. On an unrelated note, "orange" is two syllables unless it's being rushed--I assume like foliage and similar words where saying it properly goes out the window when a person is in a rush.
Several incidents in the late medieval and early modern periods involving mobs throwing people out of windows in what is today the Czech Republic. The third incident is probably the most famous, and is often cited as a cause of the Thirty Years' War.
Pretty sure we would bump into the Maldives faster than Somalia sailing from Colombo lmao😂
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orange
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brasilia_-_Plan.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levantamento_aerofotogr%C3%A1fico_de_Bras%C3%ADlia_em_junho_de_1958_-_BR_RJANRIO_PH_0_FOT_00743_0004,_Acervo_do_Arquivo_Nacional.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia#/media/File:Vista_parcial_do_Distrito_Federal,_Brasil.jpg
Bosnia's is massive!
And the clues clearly refer to lithuania's national soup, saltibarsiai, that are made of beets, is one of the national dishes and someway is similar to gazpacho (cough, cold).
As for the clues, they *clearly* don't refer to saltibarsiai, as that is not the answer given (that is, the quiz maker *clearly* wasn't referring to that); but you could say that it is an alternate answer that should be equally valid. Then again, it doesn't much look like gazpacho.
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic..."
Thank you JCC.
For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague