Switzerland one is interesting! Surprised that more folks haven't heard of an exquisite corpse. Finally, is Byron's sexuality really important enough to list in such a short clue?
Dying a quick may be better than dying a slow death from starvation. Or if B-grade post-apocalyptic movies are to be believed, better to die a quick death than be forced into slavery by psychotic warlords dressed in ski masks and leather. The apocalypse will also usher in a trend of bad hairdos, with 80's new wave perms and dreadlocks seeing a major comeback. Better to be dead before it all happens.
Many tropical island paradises in the South Pacific will definitely not be targeted by any warheads, will only face a minimum of the worst effects of fallout, and have a shot at surviving a nuclear winter. Some are overpopulated and rely on imports to sustain them but others are self sufficient. You could bring enough rations with you to survive for decades if you didn't want to learn how to farm or fish. Most of the psychotic warlords will be roaming around the Australian outback if the movies are right.
The name shamrock comes from Irish seamróg which is the diminutive of the Irish word seamair óg and simply means "young clover".
At most times, Shamrock refers to either the species Trifolium dubium (lesser clover, Irish: seamair bhuí) or Trifolium repens (white clover, Irish: seamair bhán). However, other three-leaved plants—such as Medicago lupulina, Trifolium pratense, and Oxalis acetosella—are sometimes called shamrocks.
The shamrock that is the popular symbol of Ireland is almost certainly an Oxalis, with three heart-shaped leaflets. When oxalis didn't work, I tried clover, but it would make more sense to count either answer (also sorrel) as correct.
Clover, various types of oxalis(sorrel), black medick, are all called shamrock here in Ireland and I have seen these and others pinned to people's chests on St.Patrick's day 🍀 😃
Lol, not every Swiss would agree that we're well defended, although we might survive one nuclear attack, there's still no way winning a war against USA or Russia, or even against Germany.
When the one's place changes, it's a new year. When the tens place changes, it's a new decade. When the hundreds place changes, it's a new century. When the thousands place changes, it's a new millennium. It's that simple. Keep it that simple. Yes, that means that there were only 99 years in the First Century. C'est la vie. I'm not the one who decided that there wouldn't be a 0 AD. I just know how numbers work and what is represented by each digit in a year number.
Of course a person can make up rules. That's where all this comes from. It's all arbitrary and means nothing. Why did they decide to start the Common Era at year 1 instead of 0?
Those are the guys who messed it all up with a bad arbitrary rule. Anyway, people ushered in a new millennium on 1 January 2000, and no one really cared about 2001. Is the 19th century 1801-1900 and the 1800s 1800-1899? It sounds so silly! So I say we edit history and push everything back a year. World War I is now from 1913-1917. The War of 1812 now started in 1811! Y2K is now 1999! Who's with me?
Of course its arbitrary what year was allocated as year 1 but you can't change the basic principles of maths: a century is 100 years, and you can't begin the new one until the last one is over...the current millennium technically finished at the end of 2000 but that's no reason why we couldn't have parties at both NYEs
I think it was backdated by the church (Dionysius, to be precise) about 500 years after the fact. It's not like the people walking around in 1 AD called it 1 AD. The church worked backwards to figure out when Jesus was born, and declared that year to be 1 AD, and just identified every other year (e.g., 323 BC) relative to that point in time. I remember learning that Dionysius was actually off by about six or seven years, so Jesus was actually born in 6 or 7 BC. As for why agreed with the church, well...it's the church, in 500 AD. A major force to reckon with.
Indeed. I was not aware of any association between Superman and Metropolis (it's a long time since I saw any of the Superman movies). To be fair, I could not remember any name from the actual Metropolis movie either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamrock
The name shamrock comes from Irish seamróg which is the diminutive of the Irish word seamair óg and simply means "young clover".
At most times, Shamrock refers to either the species Trifolium dubium (lesser clover, Irish: seamair bhuí) or Trifolium repens (white clover, Irish: seamair bhán). However, other three-leaved plants—such as Medicago lupulina, Trifolium pratense, and Oxalis acetosella—are sometimes called shamrocks.
Those are the guys who messed it all up with a bad arbitrary rule. Anyway, people ushered in a new millennium on 1 January 2000, and no one really cared about 2001. Is the 19th century 1801-1900 and the 1800s 1800-1899? It sounds so silly! So I say we edit history and push everything back a year. World War I is now from 1913-1917. The War of 1812 now started in 1811! Y2K is now 1999! Who's with me?