At 01:47 AM Tuesday 10/28/2008, Claes Wallin wrote:
>Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >
> >
> > Which specific country[ies] are you thinking of which changed in
> 1949 and 1972?
>
>The Chinese Nationalist Party of the Republic of China were driven to
>Taiwan by the Chinese Communist Party in
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>
> Hungary is the only country I know of which borders entirely on
> land that used to belong to it.
>
Austria, Mexico, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Peru ...
Alberto Monteiro
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On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Claes Wallin wrote:
> To be sure, China is not the only interesting country in this aspect.
> See East and West Germany, Czechia and Slovakia, the former
> Yugoslavian
> countries, the North and the South in the American Civil War etc. But
> China is more interesting
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 04:48 PM Monday 10/27/2008, Claes Wallin wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Modern version (and possibly a digression):
>>
>> (1) If a country's government is forced out of the capital and loses
>> control of most of the country, is the area controlled by that
>> government still
At 04:48 PM Monday 10/27/2008, Claes Wallin wrote:
>[snip]
>
>Modern version (and possibly a digression):
>
>(1) If a country's government is forced out of the capital and loses
>control of most of the country, is the area controlled by that
>government still the original country, only with a drast
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
> I shed skin cells all the time, and they are replaced by new cells.
> The skin I had 20 years ago is literally not the same skin I have
> now. Does that mean my skin doesn't exist, or is only as real in the
> same way a whirlpool is real?
I am firmly of the opinion that
