Things that make you go WTF

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Bandwidth, I suspect.

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http://i.imgur.com/fAEJGSC.gifv

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http://i.imgur.com/5elA9J8.webm

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[Logios]

Art installation on Place Vendôme in Paris. Apperently it is supposed to be a christmas three.

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I think it complements the Eiffel Tower, balancing the front and back of Paris.

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http://i.imgur.com/606JPYk.gifv

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The Black Legend (Spanish: La Leyenda Negra) is a style of historical writing or propaganda that demonizes the Spanish Empire, its people and its culture. The first to describe this phenomenon was Julián Juderías in his book The Black Legend and the Historical Truth (Spanish: La Leyenda Negra y la Verdad Histórica), an influential and controversial critique published in 1914, that explains how modern European historiography has traditionally presented Spanish history in a deeply negative light, ignoring any positive achievements or developments. For this anti-Spanish literature, Juderías coined the term black legend. Later writers have supported and developed Juderías' critique. In 1958, Charles Gibson argued that Spain and the Spanish Empire were historically presented as "cruel, bigoted, exploitative and self-righteous in excess of reality."[1][2]

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Spain's war with the United Provinces and in particular the victories of the Duke of Alba contributed to the anti-Spanish propaganda. Sent in August 1567 to counter political unrest in a part of Europe where printing presses were a source of heterodox opinion, especially against the Roman Catholic Church, Alba took control of the book industry and several printers were banished and at least one was executed. Book sellers and printers were prosecuted and arrested for publishing banned books, many of which were added to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
After years of unrest in the Low Countries, the summer of 1567 saw renewed violent outbursts of iconoclasm, in which Dutch'Beeldenstorm' Calvinists defaced statues and decorations of Catholic monasteries and churches. The Battle of Oosterweel in March 1567 was the first Spanish military response to the many riots, and a prelude to or the start of the Eighty Years' War. The 80 Years' War can be seen to have started on 13 March 1567 with the defeat of the rebels at Oosterweel. In October 1572, after the Orange forces captured the city of Mechelen, its lieutenant attempted to surrender when he was informed that a larger Spanish army was approaching. They tried to welcome the Duke's forces by the singing of psalms, but Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, son of the Governor of the Netherlands, and commander of the Duke's troops, allowed his men three days of pillage of the archbishopric city. Alba reported to his King that "not a nail was left in the wall". A year later, magistrates still attempted to retrieve precious church belongings that Spanish soldiers had sold in other cities.[14][15] This sack of Mechelen was the first of the Spanish Furies;[16][17][18][19] several events remembered by that name occurred in the four or five years to come.[20] In November and December of the same year, with permission by the Duke, Fadrique had the entire populations of Zutphen, bloodily, and ofNaarden killed, locked and burnt in their church.[15][21]
In July 1573, after half a year of siege, the city of Haarlem surrendered. Then the garrison's men (except for the German soldiers) were drowned or got their throat cut by the duke's troops, and eminent citizens were executed.[15] During the infamous three-day "Spanish Fury" of 1576, Spanish troops attacked and pillaged Antwerp. The soldiers rampaged through the city, killing and looting; they demanded money from citizens and burned the homes of those who refused to (or could not) pay. Christophe Plantin's printing establishment was threatened with destruction three times, but was saved each time when a ransom was paid. Antwerp was economically devastated by the attack. The propaganda created by the Dutch Revolt during the struggle against the Spanish Crown can also be seen as part of the Black Legend. The depredations against the Indians that De las Casas had described, were compared to the depredations of Alba and his successors in the Netherlands. The Brevissima relacion was reprinted no less than 33 times between 1578 and 1648 in the Netherlands (more than in all other European countries combined).[22]
The Articles and Resolutions of the Spanish Inquisition to Invade and Impede the Netherlands imputed a conspiracy to the Holy Office to starve the Dutch population, and exterminate its leading nobles, "as the Spanish had done in the Indies.[23] " Marnix of Sint-Aldegonde, a prominent propagandist for the cause of the rebels, regularly used references to alleged intentions on the part of Spain to "colonize" the Netherlands, for instance in his 1578 address to the German Diet.

[Lord Oda Nobunaga]

I just found out that twice as much Mongols as the population of Mongolia live in China. That's about 3 million people in Mongolia and 6 million Mongols living in China. Russia also has over 600,000 Mongolians which is like a fourth of the population of Mongolia.

That's way up there with Ireland and Israel for having most of their people out of their country.

[AqD]

How can you recognize them? Mongolians look just like us.

[Lord Baal]

No they are not. They look like a in between of a Russian and a Chinese. Well, at least for me. That's it, they look like a mixture of European and Asiatic population, but decidedly more Asiatic than European. Check this:

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

[AqD]

Some Mongolian actress:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

She looks just like 99% of Chinese women, ugly ones excluded.

[Aru]

Mongols look typically east-Asian with slightly broader face than southern Chinese, for instance.

Surrounding native populations of non-Mongols look exactly like Mongols. You don't have to know anything about Mongols to figure that aout as it's the same with any population in the world, not counting places that had recent mass migrations.

[Lord Baal]

Uh ah you are from China? Well it would be a problematic as differencing a Colombian from a Venezuelan, or Canadian and USA citizens.

[AqD]

Taiwan, we look just like Chinese from mainland, most of Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolians.