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@bean
That's one of the latest. They also use this one.



The Spanish flag has suffered various changes over its history. Under Franco's dictatorship the flag lost the colour mauve appearing on the Republican flag, and incorporated two important symbols, the eagle and the shield of the Catholic monarchy.

In 1977, two years after Franco's death, the eagle was slightly modified, and in 1981 it would disappear completely, leaving the current red/yellow/red with crowned arms.

Yes, but none of them containsa bird, right?

Übereil

@ube



An eagle is a bird. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
There ware even different versions of that eagle.

From where did you get those quotes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />? Never seen that before...

Übereil

PS And on the flags posted here there ARE no birds. Period DS

Maybe you want to look before you wine...
hard for you... I know.

here

and another ube oops.



There's your bird. Enjoy.
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The Spanish change the flag every couple of years.

But they don't have a bird in theri flag NOW <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />.

(OK, I admit, I was wrong, theu have acually had a bird in their flag <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />.)

Übereil

Doh!! someone make a note somewhere; Ube admitted to being wrong on 04/18/05 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Not too late to delete the post, Mea <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. And I've allways said I was honest.

Übereil

Hmmm. I looked all over for some interesting facts about Spain but didn't have any luck. Sigh

More than 700,000 people work in London's banking industry - more than any other city in the world.

Istanbul is the only city that resides on two continents; Europe and Asia.

Tokyo has more neon signs than any than city in the world.

According to NASA - the U.S. has the most violent weather. In a typical year, the US can expect some 10,000 violent thunderstorms, 5000 floods, 1000 tornados and several hurricanes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

As strange as it may be, Antarctica is essentially a desert of snow and ice with a total annual precipitation of approximately only two inches.

While the state of Minnesota is known for its 10,000 lakes, the country of Finland contains 187,888 lakes.

There are some 81,000 islands off the coast of Finland, 20,000 of which comprise the Finland Archipelago.

Indonesia is comprised of 13,667 islands.

While Warsaw, Poland has the largest Polish population, Chicago, Illinois boasts of having the world's second largest number of Polish residents.

Spain is a completelly uninteresting country <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />.

Übereil

All the cell phones used around the world in one day produce less electric impulses than a single human brain for the same period.

In Iceland, there are 210 000 cell phones in use for a population of 250 000 inhabitants.

The Nunavut Territories in Canada are about 2 million square kilometers wide; on this territory live less than 30 000 persons and more than 300 000 cariboes.

There are no self-service gas stations in the states of New Jersey and Oregon.

It is not uncommon that some spotted hyaenas tear out and eat some car pieces.

Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself.

Thomas Harvey, the pathologist who made Albert Einstein’s autopsy in 1955, stole Einstein’s brain and put it in a jar. He kept it in that jar for himself during 43 years (sometimes giving pieces of the brain to promising researchers), before finally giving the jar to the pathology department of the University Medical Center at Princeton in 1998 (Harvey was then 85 years old).

There have been 5 biological crisis bringing massive extinctions in the history of Earth. At the two firsts, during the primary era, 70% of all species disappeared; 90% disappeared at the third, marking the transition from the primary era to the secondary era. The fourth crisis, at the Jurassic period, was much less catastrophic. The fifth one, at passage from the secondary era to the tertiary era, has been the one where the dinosaurs and a large part of the marine vertebrates disappeared; the diversity of the insect species wasn’t affected by that massive extinction. These biological crisis were most likely caused by natural catastrophies (like meteor collisions or gigantic volcano outbursts).

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Better enjoy that one while it last. Since Bush wants to destroy their habitat in Alaska probably most of the cariboes will disapear. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />

The flag of mexico shows the sign of an old aztec (?) legend : The town should be founded at a place where an eagly sits in a cactus, eating prey. That's how I have it in my memory. The archaeologists don't know where the aztecs come from, but they themselves say that they were a wandering folk who evenztually settled down in the later Mexico City.

-Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill

-Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada

-No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half

-A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein

-Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

In January 1994, 'The Economist' magazine reported that one of Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's success stories about government research scientists hired out for civilian business uses was the Argonne National Laboratory's helping McDonald's to find a way to speed up french frying. A team headed by physicist Tuncer Kuzay, who interrupted his work on advanced photons, placed sensors inside the frozen fries and was able to design special frying baskets to deal with the effect of steam created by melting ice crystals and to cut 30 to 40 seconds off each batch's frying time.

A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.

Americans consume 42 tons of Aspirin per day.

Americans spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and barber shops.

Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing Heroin in 1898.

Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.

Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.

Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.

Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two medicinal ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formula, it's hard to know.

Cocaine used to be sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.

During the Prohibition, at least 1565 Americans died from drinking bad liquor, hundreds were blinded, and many were killed in bootlegger wars. Federal agents and the Coast Guard made 75,000 arrests per year.

False eyelashes were invented by film director D.W. Griffith while he was making the 1916 epic, "Intolerance." He wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks.

For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called "Growing Up Skipper". Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators, where it was first developed.

Hershey's Kisses are called that, because the machine that makes them looks like its kissing the conveyor belt.

The ball-point pen was invented by two hungarian brothers: Georgo and Lazlo Biro.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom, over and over again.

In 1965, LBJ enacted a law requiring cigarette manufacturers to put health warnings on their packages.

In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting out advertising space on his cows.

In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles. Men and women walked around topless, and marriages between brothers and sisters were not uncommon in the Royal families. Cleopatra was married to her older brother, until he drowned in the Nile. Then she married her 11-year-old younger brother.

In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers", which contained the actual poison.

Lady Rain!

How's life <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />?

Übereil

Nurse? Can you give me something? I have a headache... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

ta ubs....

Life is great.... hectic but great <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

and i am planning to do a couple of posts today and tomorrow.

-There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building

-If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion

-Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive

-A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth

-The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth

-Clinophobia is the fear of beds