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In related trivia:
Canada is its own country, not the US's hat.
But Canada is North America right? Forgive the ignorance of a Brit for asking.
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Some famous Canadian actresses...
Carrie-Anne Moss from Burnaby, British Columbia is an actress who achieved worldwide fame following her appearances in The Matrix trilogy as Trinity.
Pamela Anderson is a British Columbia television actress, glamor model, producer, TV personality and author. She was formerly known as Pamela Anderson Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the '90s and most notably for her large implants. Anderson has been called the sex symbol of the '90s.
Catherine O'Hara is a Toronto actress and comedian and is best known for her movie roles in Beetlejuice (1988) and in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2 (1992).
Carrie-Anne Moss from Burnaby, British Columbia is an actress who achieved worldwide fame following her appearances in The Matrix trilogy as Trinity.
Pamela Anderson is a British Columbia television actress, glamor model, producer, TV personality and author. She was formerly known as Pamela Anderson Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the '90s and most notably for her large implants. Anderson has been called the sex symbol of the '90s.
Catherine O'Hara is a Toronto actress and comedian and is best known for her movie roles in Beetlejuice (1988) and in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2 (1992).
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Some famous Canadian actors...
Donald McNicol Sutherland is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick to Dorothy McNichol and Frederick Sutherland, who was in charge of the local bus, gas and electricity company; his maternal grandfather was a Protestant minister.
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor who was born in Lebanon. He is perhaps best known for his role as Neo in the action film trilogy The Matrix and also for roles in Speed and comedies such as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Michael J. Fox is a Canadian actor, famous for his roles as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties, for which he won three Emmy awards, and NYC Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty on the TV series Spin City, for which he won his fourth Emmy award.
Donald McNicol Sutherland is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years. Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick to Dorothy McNichol and Frederick Sutherland, who was in charge of the local bus, gas and electricity company; his maternal grandfather was a Protestant minister.
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor who was born in Lebanon. He is perhaps best known for his role as Neo in the action film trilogy The Matrix and also for roles in Speed and comedies such as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Michael J. Fox is a Canadian actor, famous for his roles as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties, for which he won three Emmy awards, and NYC Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty on the TV series Spin City, for which he won his fourth Emmy award.
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In celebration of Canada Day, here are some more facts:
The original Star Trek owes much to Canada. Two of its stars – William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and James Doohan (Scotty) were Canadian. In the 1980s, Doohan’s unique interpretation of a Scottish accent led to the formation of the Scottyish Society at St Andrews University in Scotland. Members offered recitals of the poetry of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, in a “Scottyish” accent.
The largest Island in Canada is Baffin Island. It is the fifth biggest island on Earth and only two US states are bigger than the island – Alaska and Texas. Baffin Island is more than double the size of the UK and is slightly smaller than France.
And here are some of the stereotypes debunked. And this tells of some unwritten codes Enjoy
The original Star Trek owes much to Canada. Two of its stars – William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and James Doohan (Scotty) were Canadian. In the 1980s, Doohan’s unique interpretation of a Scottish accent led to the formation of the Scottyish Society at St Andrews University in Scotland. Members offered recitals of the poetry of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, in a “Scottyish” accent.
The largest Island in Canada is Baffin Island. It is the fifth biggest island on Earth and only two US states are bigger than the island – Alaska and Texas. Baffin Island is more than double the size of the UK and is slightly smaller than France.
And here are some of the stereotypes debunked. And this tells of some unwritten codes Enjoy
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Yup... and it's not ignorance
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I was slightly confused when the previous posters comment mentioned the US when your original post mentioned The North American Treaty, am I missing something?
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I was slightly confused when the previous posters comment mentioned the US when your original post mentioned The North American Treaty, am I missing something?
No you're not. It's a comment to a bad joke, actually, which says that Canada is nothing more than the hat of the USA.
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In celebration of Canada Day, here are some more facts:
The original Star Trek owes much to Canada. Two of its stars – William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and James Doohan (Scotty) were Canadian. In the 1980s, Doohan’s unique interpretation of a Scottish accent led to the formation of the Scottyish Society at St Andrews University in Scotland. Members offered recitals of the poetry of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, in a “Scottyish” accent.
The largest Island in Canada is Baffin Island. It is the fifth biggest island on Earth and only two US states are bigger than the island – Alaska and Texas. Baffin Island is more than double the size of the UK and is slightly smaller than France.
And here are some of the stereotypes debunked. And this tells of some unwritten codes Enjoy
You are obviously deeply proud of your homeland and to that I give you my total respect
Lord Franklyn, a folk song about a ship sinking in Baffin Bay...
In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell
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I was slightly confused when the previous posters comment mentioned the US when your original post mentioned The North American Treaty, am I missing something?
LOL, quite descriptive actually, a woman does look pretty in a beautiful hat
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You are obviously deeply proud of your homeland and to that I give you my total respect
Lord Franklyn, a folk song about a ship sinking in Baffin Bay...
In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell
Ironically, I don't consider myself having a homeland
I just like the place... but so have any other place I lived in....
(and by the way, I just think the beer commercials are really really funny
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Ironically, I don't consider myself having a homeland
I just like the place... but so have any other place I lived in....
(and by the way, I just think the beer commercials are really really funny
Then we will continue to take the piss out of the US, dry humour is our best weapon and we will win because they don't have any
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The world's top 10 fattest countries......
(10) United Kingdom, 61%
A recent survey ranked Brits among the bottom third of European nations in physical exercise, leading Health Secretary Andy Burnham to comment, “We’re really in danger of being known as the best in the world for watching sport, but one of the worst for getting out there and doing it for ourselves.”
(10) United Kingdom, 61%
A recent survey ranked Brits among the bottom third of European nations in physical exercise, leading Health Secretary Andy Burnham to comment, “We’re really in danger of being known as the best in the world for watching sport, but one of the worst for getting out there and doing it for ourselves.”
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The world's top fattest countries...
(9) Croatia, 61.4%
Croatia, where cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, is also a victim of the globalization of the food market, which tends to suppress traditional diets as cheaper processed foods from the U.S. and Europe flood store shelves.
(9) Croatia, 61.4%
Croatia, where cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, is also a victim of the globalization of the food market, which tends to suppress traditional diets as cheaper processed foods from the U.S. and Europe flood store shelves.
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The worlds fattest countries...
(8) Israel, 61.9%
In the past 30 years, the number of obese Israelis has tripled, evidence the country is truly part of the Western world.
(8) Israel, 61.9%
In the past 30 years, the number of obese Israelis has tripled, evidence the country is truly part of the Western world.
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Australia invented the UTE (Pick up truck) and the Rotary clothesline,
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The worlds' fattest countries...
(7) New Zealand, 62.7%
Obesity is a growing concern for New Zealand. While its native Maori have struggled with weight due to loss of traditional culture like other Pacific Islanders– they are mostly just a scapegoat. New Zealand’s entire population is getting fatter at a rapidly increased rate.
(7) New Zealand, 62.7%
Obesity is a growing concern for New Zealand. While its native Maori have struggled with weight due to loss of traditional culture like other Pacific Islanders– they are mostly just a scapegoat. New Zealand’s entire population is getting fatter at a rapidly increased rate.
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The Worlds' fattest countries...
(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9%
Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, obesity is dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, where smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods spiked during the war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1995.
(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9%
Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, obesity is dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, where smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods spiked during the war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1995.
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The world's fattest countries...
(5) Egypt, 66%
Obesity among Egyptian women is particularly high, often attributed to cultural taboos on women exercising or playing sports.
(5) Egypt, 66%
Obesity among Egyptian women is particularly high, often attributed to cultural taboos on women exercising or playing sports.
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The worlds' top ten fattest countries...
(4) Germany, 66.5%
The fattest country in Europe no doubt owes their portly woes to lots of beer, fatty foods and inactivity.
(4) Germany, 66.5%
The fattest country in Europe no doubt owes their portly woes to lots of beer, fatty foods and inactivity.
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The worlds' top ten fattest countries...
(3) Well, the U.S.A. doesn’t top the list, but it’s close, and it falls behind only a small islands nation and one of its own unincorporated territories. The United States of Processed food, high fructose corn syrup and fast food has been high on this list over the last half century.
(3) Well, the U.S.A. doesn’t top the list, but it’s close, and it falls behind only a small islands nation and one of its own unincorporated territories. The United States of Processed food, high fructose corn syrup and fast food has been high on this list over the last half century.
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The World Health Organization has recently released the results of health surveys taken between 2000 and 2008 on world obesity, and the news isn’t pretty.
Since obesity rates can be an indicator of a nation’s nutritional trends, health and culture, we thought it might be useful information for the expat to know. Here are the 10 fattest countries of the last decade:
(1) American Samoa, 93.5% (of the population that is overweight)
It’s a staggering number. Many Pacific Island nations have had trouble with weight in modern times mostly because they have abandoned their traditional foods for cheap, easily attained processed foods from the West. Perhaps no other Pacific Island has had such access to these habits as American Samoa.
(2) Kiribati, 81.5%
Like American Samoa, Kiribati has been flooded with processed foods like Spam and mutton flaps (fatty sheep scraps), often sold at lower prices than native food.
Please read back for the WHO's explanations of the preceding eight nations who are...
(3) USA
(4) Germany
(5) Egypt
(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina
(7) New Zealand
(8) Isreal
(9) Croatia
(10) United Kingdom
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Since obesity rates can be an indicator of a nation’s nutritional trends, health and culture, we thought it might be useful information for the expat to know. Here are the 10 fattest countries of the last decade:
(1) American Samoa, 93.5% (of the population that is overweight)
It’s a staggering number. Many Pacific Island nations have had trouble with weight in modern times mostly because they have abandoned their traditional foods for cheap, easily attained processed foods from the West. Perhaps no other Pacific Island has had such access to these habits as American Samoa.
(2) Kiribati, 81.5%
Like American Samoa, Kiribati has been flooded with processed foods like Spam and mutton flaps (fatty sheep scraps), often sold at lower prices than native food.
Please read back for the WHO's explanations of the preceding eight nations who are...
(3) USA
(4) Germany
(5) Egypt
(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina
(7) New Zealand
(8) Isreal
(9) Croatia
(10) United Kingdom
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The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
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The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
Huh.
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On July 5, 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy") which states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics, also Newton's law of universal gravitation, and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
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