Post A Random Fact About Your Country

[Pallantides]

The Norwegian king Sigurd I Magnusson also known as Sigurd Jorsalfar(Sigurd the Crusader) was one of the first European Kings that joined the Crusade in the Holy Land.


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

By going on the crusade, he was the first European king to do so, and his crusader feats earned him the nickname Jorsalafari.

King Sigurd and King Baldwin ride to the river Jordan.

[Äike]

Saaremaa is the biggest island in Estonia and also the fourth biggest island in the Baltic Sea.

[Germanicus]

The Battle of Hastings was fought between the Norman army of William the Conqueror, and the English army led by Harold Godwinson.

My exwife has family called Godwins funnily enough..

[Piparskeggr]

Vermont (9,620 sq mi, aka 24,923 sq km), where I went to college, was an independent republic from January 18, 1777 until March 4, 1791, when it joined as the 14th State within the confederation started by the 13 original colonies...it is 43rd in size and 49th in population.

[Äike]

Estonian vikings sacked Sigtuna and raided the Swedish, Danish and German coast. They were one of the main reasons why Christian Northern Europeans(Swedes, Danes and Germans) united forces and attacked Estonia.

[Lars]

Estonian vikings sacked Sigtuna and raided the Swedish, Danish and German coast. They were one of the main reasons why Christian Northern Europeans(Swedes, Danes and Germans) united forces and attacked Estonia.

You bastard! (...oh, thanks for Dannebrog btw. hehehe)

[Eldritch]

Unless you're a drinker, Wales is fucking boring on a Sunday night!

In other words, no-one is ever bored in Wales on Sundays?

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Salmiakkikossu, one of the most popular shots in this country, was inspired by a Simpsons episode where Moe mixes a drink out of vodka and cough syrup.

[Lars]

In other words, no-one is ever bored in Wales on Sundays?

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Salmiakkikossu, one of the most popular shots in this country, was inspired by a Simpsons episode where Moe mixes a drink out of vodka and cough syrup.

Haha. We have them too, vodka with dissolve turkish Pepper. We call them 'black swine'. Many people make it themselves. It's common to see a small group of people buy a whole tray with 30 shots of them and drink them in rapid succession.

[nisse]

For 3 years my country was home to an anarchist republic up

[Germanicus]

Average Heights
The average height for an early 17th-century English man was approximately 5’ 6". For 17th-century English women, it was about 5’ ½". While average heights in England remained virtually unchanged in the 17th and 18th centuries, American colonists grew taller. Averages for modern Americans are just over 5’ 9" for men, and about 5’ 3 ¾" for women. The main reasons for this difference are improved nutrition, notably increased consumption of meat and milk, and antibiotics.


Modern Americans are measured, or give their height, for many documents; people in the early 17th century did not. The one exception was the military musters, where the height of a man determined what weapon he was fit to use. The "Men and Armour for Gloucestershire in 1608, " for example, divided the men both by age groups and height. The four catagories were "tallest stature fitt to make a pykeman," "middle stature fitt to make a musketyer," "lower stature fitt to serve with a Calyver" and "meanest stature either fit for a pyoner [foot soldier, laborer], or of little other use."1 This division, while interesting, is hardly precise. Descriptions of runaway slaves later in the period often included height, but the figures given may have been approximates. Lacking documentary evidence, the best source of evidence is the people themselves, at least their remains. Evidence compiled from various archaeological excavations in medieval England, 17th-century London, and colonial America provides some figures, which indicate at least the probable average height for early 17th-century English men and women.