During the invasion of India after the Perth Attack, American paratroopers were surrounded and near destruction when the timely arrival of the Pakistani army relived the besieged airmen. As many of the saved soldiers were Texan governor George Bush thanked the Palistanis, and famously declared that god is great in several languages. It was very awkward but the Pakistanis got the message.
After the 1980s economic liberalization, this phrase was printed in a 1999 Soviet advertisement campaign, supporting the use of whale oil for cooking, and whale meat as a healthy food. After domesticated minke whales were raised in the Black Sea, the Soviets became the first sustainable whale farming nation. Today, the Soviet Union is the largest exotic food exporter for Norwegian and Japanese markets, an underlooked but profitable part of the Soviet economy.
Dietrich von Hammond, Prime Minister of the Empire of Louisiana, talking in 1889 about the crucial role of the Mississippi and its tributary rivers in the still predominantly rural Louisiana's consistency and economy. The 1894 invasion of the Empire by the Confederation of Carolinan Republics would devastate Louisiana's predominantly river-based economy. After a French intervention which would allow Lousiana to annex Carolinan Alabama, the Empire would belately add to its trade infrastructure a rail network, whose benefits would be seen in the following war, in 1913, with the North American Union, which had seized on the Carolinan weakness and annexed them, allowing the Louisianans to beat the Americans to a standstill.
King Vito I of Sicily, not known for being one of the leading lights of monarchy at the dawn of the 20th century, notoriously pitted his state police against the banditti of his nation, going so far as to himself encourage the trade of euphorien by his private armies to combat the illicit trade on the opposite side of the law. Not surprisingly, this led to much rancor on the Italian peninsula, as Pope John XXV pleaded with the Sicilian Crown to stem the flow of drugs from its shores, to no avail. Finally, in 1913, the Papal States invaded Sicily and violently overthrew Vito's regime, ending his 55-year-reign and formally ending the House of Giulberti's rule upon the island's annexation by the Papacy.
An attack by Assassins (often considered to be sent by Rome) had just been made an attack upon Hamilcar, fatally wounding him. As the assassins fled, Hamilcar told Hannibal, as revenge, he needed to conquer Rome, to become Emperor of Rome.
Grand-Duke George Washington the 4th, commenting on the perceived complete incompetence of his General's during the thirty day war.
When the Thirteen Colonies became an independent country, they were called the American Empire, or the United Principalities of America. These principalities were commonwealths, kingdoms, and archduchies. In 1847, the heir apparent to the Kingdom of England - a state centered at what we would call London, Ontario, and inhabited by religious dissidents from Ohio - was Amish, leading to significant protest by the French Catholics of American England, including Jean De Gaulle, who said this quote.
