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[alanrotoi]

"no" because it's a banner not a flag

[alanrotoi]

Is Varga Pál an usual name or a known guy? His name is in some stamps from Hungary.

[Shoegazing Leo]

It seens legit

[Shoegazing Leo]

Laughing around the world:

[Shoegazing Leo]

Meanwhile in Argentina:

[BonzaiJoe]

What does that mean? Why are you posting it?

[Shoegazing Leo]

What does that mean? Why are you posting it?

A version of newspaper from Argentina about Back To The Future


Mixing things about the movie and Argentina.

[Duplode]

I was very excited last night when a guest pulled out a passport from the small Caribbean island nation of Dominica. I was even more surprised because he had an Arabic name and his place of birth was listed as "United Arab Emirates".

Then I did some research (it was a quiet night at the hotel), and I found out that Dominica is giving out citizenships to investors in order to attract investments. This is handy for Arabic people because a Dominican passport lets you travel visa-free to more countries than a U.A.E. one.

http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/business/dominica-among-fastest-growing-immigration-destinations-for-uae-residents/

So this person must simply have been some kind of oil-based business man who has never even been to Dominica but has simply invested in the country in order to attain a new citizenship.

What he was doing in Denmark? No idea. But he probably got here easier because of his Dominican passport.


"Turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has led to a surge of interest in programs that let investors buy citizenship or residence in countries around the world in return for a healthy contribution or investment. Most are seeking a second passport for hassle-free travel or a ready escape hatch in case things get worse at home.

Nowhere is it easier or faster than in the minuscule Eastern Caribbean nations of Dominica and St. Kitts & Nevis.

It's such a booming business that a Dubai-based company is building a 4-square-mile (10-square-kilometer) community in St. Kitts where investors can buy property and citizenship at the same time. In its first phase, some 375 shareholders will get citizenship by investing $400,000 each in the project, which is expected to include a 200-room hotel and a mega-yacht marina. Others will get passports for buying one of 50 condominium units."

Reading this story brought BJ's anecdote to mind: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/the-bizarre-scheme-to-transform-a-remote-island-into-new-dubai-comoros

[Shoegazing Leo]

[BonzaiJoe]

Interesting. I suppose all the languages I haven't heard of belong to native peoples. But why is Japanese the second most common mother tongue in a large, Amazonian province?

[Shoegazing Leo]

Interesting. I suppose all the languages I haven't heard of belong to native peoples. But why is Japanese the second most common mother tongue in a large, Amazonian province?

In Pará there are a city with a lot of japanese immigrants and descendents: Tomé-Açu. In this city, the japanese introducted the pepper agriculture.


The non-eurasian languages are native. Curious that Tupi had their language as a common language used for religious and some regions, but there are tupi people in all country. There are Jê (Macro-Jê language) in almost the entire country too. Maranhão is very far away from Santa Catarina (the southern state with german and italian), but some of my ascendents are from kaingang, a people of Macro-Jê ethnic group.

[Shoegazing Leo]

Symbol-bird of each brazilian state (names in portuguese):

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

I was about to tell you that there are two Japanese biathletes called Tachizaki. Fuyuko Tachizaki is a woman, while Mikito Tachizaki is a man. They have very funny names IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuyuko_Tachizaki
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikito_Tachizaki

Well, I was about to neglect this, but a new and even better name was found last weekend among the alpine skiers. Let me introduce Yumenosuke KAKIZAKI from Japan, who raced Saturday's world cup Giant Slalom in Yuzawa Naeba (Japan), but did not qualify for the second run.

http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/athletes/athlete=kakizaki-yumenosuke-164266/

[Shoegazing Leo]

The new Facebook's likes as Adriano:

[Shoegazing Leo]