UltimaThule
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I see some background on the Spanish "spinelessness" has finally surfaced. The former government was not all that popular in the first place, they might have lost the election anyway, bombs or no bombs. The terror might even have worked in favour of the sitting government, as it often does - if they hadn't been caught lying. The voters didn't like that. Voting a lying politician out of office isn't necessarily the same as being spineless.
(off topic) MillCreek,
you need to brush up your Scandinavian history...
Norway does not celebrate an independence day, 17th of May is our Constitution Day. At the time regarded as the most liberal (in the original meaning of the word) constitution in the world. That was in 1814
. At that time we were in union with Denmark, a voluntary union between two countries, somewhat like that between England and Scotland today. As a result of the Napoleonic wars, the great powers decided to break up that union and create a Norwegian-Swedish union. Norway and Sweden shared one thing and one thing only for the next 91 years: A king. The countries had separate cabinets, separate parliaments, separate armed forces. The fact that most Swedes thought they "owned" Norway, is beside the point, as is the fact that they still think, and a lot of Norwegians think, that they used to "own" us. Ignorance is not limited to Americans.
On June 7th 1905, the Norwegian parliament voted on the following proclamation (paraphrasing from memory): "The King has proven himself unable to fulfill his constitutional duties and has therefore ceased to function as king of Norway." The vote was unanimous, and because the only link between the two countries was the king, the union was dissolved. June 7th is a historical date, but it is not celebrated as the 17th of May is.
BTW, the last Swedish soldier to die in action, was stabbed to death with his own bayonet. A Norwegian soldier took his musket away from him and stabbed him with it - in 1814.
My opinion is that Sweden is to Scandinavia what France is to the world. Other than that, we're getting along just fine.
kjm:
(off topic) MillCreek,
you need to brush up your Scandinavian history...
Norway does not celebrate an independence day, 17th of May is our Constitution Day. At the time regarded as the most liberal (in the original meaning of the word) constitution in the world. That was in 1814
. At that time we were in union with Denmark, a voluntary union between two countries, somewhat like that between England and Scotland today. As a result of the Napoleonic wars, the great powers decided to break up that union and create a Norwegian-Swedish union. Norway and Sweden shared one thing and one thing only for the next 91 years: A king. The countries had separate cabinets, separate parliaments, separate armed forces. The fact that most Swedes thought they "owned" Norway, is beside the point, as is the fact that they still think, and a lot of Norwegians think, that they used to "own" us. Ignorance is not limited to Americans. On June 7th 1905, the Norwegian parliament voted on the following proclamation (paraphrasing from memory): "The King has proven himself unable to fulfill his constitutional duties and has therefore ceased to function as king of Norway." The vote was unanimous, and because the only link between the two countries was the king, the union was dissolved. June 7th is a historical date, but it is not celebrated as the 17th of May is.
Some older Norwegians may remember the way German troop trains were allowed to use Swedish railways in 1940...
BTW, the last Swedish soldier to die in action, was stabbed to death with his own bayonet. A Norwegian soldier took his musket away from him and stabbed him with it - in 1814.
My opinion is that Sweden is to Scandinavia what France is to the world. Other than that, we're getting along just fine.
kjm:
I see you're more concerned with gramatical errors than with speling errors.
