Nickname attributed to then Prime Minister James Hacker by the newly elected Alliance MP for Ross (et al.) Charles Kennedy, himself later Prime Minister, during a heated commons debate where he referred to the Liberal Conservatives as a Party of Idiots lead by their Patron Saint, and was duly censured by the Speaker.
Treaty establishing an alliance between every nation with a lion as its national symbol - currently England (but not the UK in general), Denmark, Norway, Togo and Singapore. This alliance can be unwieldy, as in 1999 when England took Togo’s side in the Guinea-Bissau Civil War, while Scotland and Wales remained neutral. But this alliance is ironclad, and some have said that if every country had a lion as its symbol there would be world peace, but the US, among others, has said no, they’re never dropping the eagle.
Named of a cheesy 70s science fiction movie. The Sabine women are beautiful, green skinned aliens from the planet Saba, which was recently captured by the evil Zurkian empire. The Zurkians enslaved the natives but a small group of women was able to escape to Earth. There, they meet the protagonist and his friends, who help the Sabine women fight off the slavers and find them a place to live on Earth.
A comic book published in 1987 in the Kingdom of Scotland and Ireland, where the House of Hannover continued to reign after the Stuarts retook England and Wales in the aftermath of the War of the English Succession (1801-1814). Captain Scotland is a superhero, enhanced by the greatest genetic science fictional comicbook scotland had, and in Captain Scotland and the Jacobite Plot, he travels back in time to stop one of his regular villain enemies, The Cardinal from changing history to allow the Jacobites to win the battle of Culloden, which would of course have major ramifications for all of history.
One of the novel of the captain scotland series that was called the best (due to mainly its superb writing,its comedic genius and the queen herself was the one who announce the release of the novel). The plot starts off with the captain heavily drunk in a tavern overheard some shady individuals talking about how they will sabotage king george I royal yacht while it sailed off the coast of scotland, hearing this the captain laugh it off as a joke as the year before in the same tavern there is a "be a jacobite" competition so in his mind they are practicing for the upcoking competition. Homever the plot suddenly turned dire as the captain received a letter from his friend Baron von Annenberg (one of the main character in the previous novel Captain Scotland and The Prussian Lord) warning the captain of ab assasination attempt on king george I (how von annenberg got the information wasnt really told but its heavily hinted he managed to annoy one of the jacobite so much he gave the plan to von annenberg just to make him go away) this lead to the captain on a cat and mouse game with the jacobites around spain,hanover and the waters around scotlands (with a climactic battle in wich the captain ship managed to somehow dissable the jacobites large man o war in which the ship was rewarded to him replacing his old ship).
A book on the successfull november coup in the soviet union that toppled the democratic soviet goverment lead by gorbachev. (A fun fact is that the coup was originally planned in august but was delayed and put into motion in november)
John, Long, and Silvers was a law firm based out of Shreveport, Louisiana, formed in 1948. A scandal occurred in 1987 concerning the trial of Virginia Secretary of State Oliver North, where it had been discovered Long had planted evidence and committed perjury.
The GOP/Republican party uses the mastodon or the wooly mammoth (an extinct animal) as their symbol as a response for the upcoming us dinosours month (they eventually stuck with it as no one bothers to change it back to the elephant)
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Stasi and elements of the East German military (supported by a flood of diehard communists from Russia) held onto power through terror and oppression for four years against increasing agitation, until 1993 when West Germany, with the approval of the US and the rest of NATO (and the promise of support if they needed it) invaded East Germany in a war that lasted all of two months before the East German government fell entirely, ushering in the reunification of Germany.
Name for the manga on the life of jakob fugger by hayao miyazaki, at first he wanted to do more local one but after reading about the exploit of certain individual like john d rockfeller (who he made into the manga Eagle,Guns and Oil), Mansa Musa (who he made into the manga Golden Coins) and more recently on jakob fugger. At first miyazaki works wasnt really catching on as the public wanted more gore and action (after recent show like evangelion) though in the 2010 kyoto animation (in partnership with ghibli) decided to create an anime series based on all of his 3 books titled The Exploits. The show was an instant hit and the two season reached a score of 90% viewership and overwhelming postive response. (it was pretty new for an anime to be set in a foreign place without any notable japanese character but it was very refreshing,down to earth and most remarkably its accurate details (notably on the clothing and weapons))
A painting by modern Canadian artist Becky Huang. The painting is a parody of Warhol's 1981 work Dos Equis, which depicted three beer bottles. Huang's work was not particularly well-received - first exhibited at the Grand Museum of the Republic in Taronto in 2009 as part of her "Offshoots" show, the piece has not been displayed since.
A term used by the american public when a group of arab oil magnate book the entirity of the waldorf astoria hotel and by entirity i mean the entirity of the hotel, the reason behin the booking isnt quite clear but reports from the arab country is that they are celebrating the construction of the Burj Khalifa (the reason they choose to stay in america for the night and not in the tower itself is still widely debated though it might be because the tower was so tall they are afraid it could collapse) after they left homever the term became a saying when someone is booking more than 2 room (presidential or king suite to be exact) and the person who do this ussualy will be given a special robe (like the one the oil magnate wore when they arrived and booked the hotel).
Also known as the Uptight Citizens Brigade, UCB was an anti-crime neighborhood watch group founded in New Orleans in the 1920s- campaigning against moral degeneracy and for “family values”. It got nowhere.
Rick Ross and Rick Steves - one a rapper and the other a world traveller, provided hipster tourists travel guides to the greatest zones of urban blight in North America. There are backdoor guides to Gary, Indiana, Detroit, Compton, Oakland, Atlanta, Mexico City, Ciudad Juarez, and Havana, among others
A doozy of dozen reffered to a 1990 incident where a pharmaceutical company accidently spiked a high school lunch food with sleeping pills (the exact cause is still unknown but many accepted that 2 boxes of beef boulion was accidently mixed up with 2 boxes of sleeping pills while in the shipping depot) this resulted in the entirity of the high school (bar the gardener and the football team which eat separately) dozing off and falling asleep until 9 in the night when concerned family finally found out what happened (to be fair they are quite lucky as 2 years later a school experienced the same thing but this time with animal tranq)
GTA game set in a fictional 1980s Berlin. A city divided between capitalism and communism, with a wall running down the middle.
