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Say what you will...But Italians have done more in this world... (pg. 9)
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| trance__dreamer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-Trancer
just go on youtube and search
MY NEW HAIRCUT
We win at life..lol |
haha. i love that video. "WEBSTER HALL GUIDO DANCE OFF" & "Gino The Ginny" also make me laugh. =) |
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| mezzir |
the only thing that would make this thread better would be smokeape
can we have a cage match?
like keep him banned but allow him to post just in this thread?
and same with vivid
winner gets unbanned, loser is permabanned? |
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| Dr. DAS |
| Did anyone mention collaboration with the Nazis? Don't forget that part. |
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| Dr. DAS |
| Did anyone mention collaboration with the Nazis? Don't forget that part. |
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| eROs.au |
| lol i laugh at italians. |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Fail.
Germany, Austria, France, and England all did way more than Italy for science, philosophy, and technology.
Italy wins for visual arts and architecture, but can't really compete in most other categories. |
Scotland > *
TV
Telephone
Logarithms
Tarmac Roads
Pneumatic Tires
Steam Engines (useful ones)
Economics
Public Education (longest running in the world - Sparta had it too but it died :p)
and on , Grand Theft Auto, Lemmings lol, and on and on....
Without mentioning the most important, the work of James Clerk Maxwell. But if you were to take the UK as a whole, i.e. include Newton and Faraday.... then nothing ever even comes close to what the UK has done. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Scotland > * |
Maybe if you're talking purely about engineering achievements. If you want to talk about foundational science, then France and Germany are up there for sure. |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Maybe if you're talking purely about engineering achievements. If you want to talk about foundational science, then France and Germany are up there for sure. |
Au contraire mon amie.
Are logarithms not a foundation of science? How when you don't have a calculator are you going to multiply large numbers. I.e. do any calculations involving space or basically anything else useful?
If you are going to know anything about space aren't the unified electro-magnetic equations of Maxwell, a precursor to Einstein laws of the psychical world (EDIT: and Radio) important?
If you are going to talk of economics (political as well as financial), Adam Smith was the father of it.
Where was Darwin taught about evolution? To later go on to develop the theory of natural selection?
Read up on the Scottish Enlightenment you will be very surprised, the list I put up above is nothing compared to all the other inventions/theories that have been generated here.
EDIT:
Just remembered the guy who invented the Electric Clock was from this town. The creator of the Boy's Brigade, the world's first uniformed youth organisation, precursor to the Boy Scouts (Baden Powell actually was one) was from 20 miles away. And The guy who created Keiths Beer (thank us Canadians) was 10 miles away.... This is the far far north, there are probably under 20,000 people in all the places these people were born in. And there is a claim for the first ever fax machine too (need to check that).
EDIT2: And the biggest empire in the history of the world was the British Empire (partly Scottish), not the Roman or Mongol. And to bust another myth, it was a King of Scotland who became the King of England... not the other way round. :p
EDIT3: In current terms, a Scottish company (RBS) does more trade in America alone than McDonalds does in the whole world. And it is bigger than Sony and Apple combined. And HSBC was stared by a Scot too, the 3rd largest company in the world...according to Forbes magazine...also stared by a Scot. And that's without even mentioning Andrew Carnegie....
EDIT4: Look back to the start of the US and see how many Scots were involved...read up on the Declaration of Arbroath.
Not bad for a country of 5 million eh? Really could go on and on... but I'm fairly sure I'm boring the off you. :p |
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| Fledz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-Trancer
just go on youtube and search
MY NEW HAIRCUT
We win at life..lol |
Heh, that video is great and so true :haha: |
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| Vivid Boy |
things italians have invented:
plumbing
freedom of speech
stuff crust pizza
the 30 dollar oil change
pizza
long sticks instead of paddles
jesus was half italian which is why he had long hair
the virgin maria
the civic
Mario bros.
alberto hair products
artichokes
wifebeaters with leatherjackets
the combover
faking injuries
world domination
finding things.. like countries
bribing
organized crime |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by smakmagik
Pizza originated in China |
Which is ironic because I believe the Fortune Cookie originated from America.
Another +1 for us! |
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