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stryyker wrote:

we made the nuke

Taiwan:

Largest maker of 300mm wafers in the world
90% of ram, mobos, gfx cards produced here
internet is uber cheap, 10mb connection for 35usd
worlds tallest building (for now)

urngn 300mm wafers *drool

stryyker wrote:

we made the nuke

Leaders guys, leaders

for Holland/The Netherlands hmm i have to say Willem Van Oranje < (Dutch name) He was the Leader and defeated the Spanish control in The Netherlands in the eighty years' war (liberation: 1648)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_oranje

^*AlphA*^ wrote:

for Holland/The Netherlands hmm i have to say Willem Van Oranje < (Dutch name) He was the Leader and defeated the Spanish control in The Netherlands in the eighty years' war (liberation: 1648)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_oranje

we had the VOC that traded all the goodies in asia and india back in the 1600 years i think

The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch,)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

Last edited by RonnY[NL] (2006-07-31 03:38:50)

jean cretian
nothing big, nothing bad, just kept everything mellow and quiet for 12 years.
no news is good news.

Admiral Nelson or Churchill for England.

Monash

Republic of Ireland: So many to choose from... Eamonn DeValera, Pádraig Mac Piarais, 'Big Jim' Larkin, James Connolly, Countess Markiewicz, Cathal Brugha, Eamonn Ceannt, O'Donovan Rossa, Joseph Plunkett, Sean MacDiarmada, Thomas J. Clarke, Tom MacDonagh, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Charles Stuart Parnell, Brian Boru, Daniel O' Connell, Robert Emmet, etc., etc.

Personally my choice would be Pádraig Mac Piarais - pivotal figure in the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the 1916 Easter Rising. He recited the proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the General Post Office and was later executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol by the Brits in the aftermath of the Rising. His death was not in vain as it gave the Irish the vital impetus to finally defeat the Brits and rid them from the 26 counties. The remaining 6 counties of Northern Ireland however still remain occupied.

"IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.

Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory.

We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurption of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty : six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and its exaltation among the nations.

The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.

Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.

We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called."

CameronPoe wrote:

the 1916 Easter Rising.

Isn't that the one where the German gunrunners got scared and dumped their cargo, and you guys had your asses handed to you by troops diverted from a ship bound for Europe?

Bubbalo wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

the 1916 Easter Rising.

Isn't that the one where the German gunrunners got scared and dumped their cargo, and you guys had your asses handed to you by troops diverted from a ship bound for Europe?

Victory wasn't important. The martyrdom of those that took part galvanised the Irish into finally expelling the Brits. Easter 1916 is the true birthdate of our nation.

Aneurin Bevan Founded the National Health Service in the UK.  As a result of his actions people in Britain were provided with free diagnosis and treatment of illness, at home or in hospital, as well as dental and ophthalmic services.