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[Walks_At_Night]

The Sun conspiracy

[PB]

The Sun conspiracy...

There's some kooky lady who drives around Berkeley shouting out her car window something about the sun having been stolen and replaced with a mirror.  I wonder if she knows about this.

[Walks_At_Night]

There's some kooky lady who drives around Berkeley shouting out her car window something about the sun having been stolen and replaced with a mirror.  I wonder if she knows about this.

Ha!  I'd imagine she is an expert. 

I do know the sunflower dude in that video was hucking.  Mature sun flowers don't track the Sun - they face East. 

[JUAN]

T.J. On WABC had on a guest last night who had set up some kind of marijuana sting operation that snared some crooked cops.  TJ tried to interview him but he only wanted to yell about dope smoking - in favor of it.  He disparaged the station - he mockingly shrieked when TJ said he had been sober for 20-years and yelled that TJ needed to smoke a joint and drink a beer.  TJ hung up on him and went to open lines. 

What do we now call sad guests?

[Walks_At_Night]

What do we now call sad guests?

Joshua P.'s

[JUAN]

Joshua P.'s

That would be Joshua P

[Walks_At_Night]

In studying maps of the world, I had wondered why India owned a little hunk territory between Nepal and Bhutan.  Seemed kind of strange.  Why India has territory between the Himalayan states?

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Looked into it and until fairly recently this was not the case.  That territory was the Kingdom of Sikkim and for centuries was ruled by Priest Kings. 

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Guess this got under the Indians skin and in the mid 70's they put tens of thousands of troops into the Kingdom and held a referendum.  Lo and behold the Anschluss passed and that was the end of the Kingdom of Sikkim.  Don't know enough about it to determine if this was for good or ill for the people there.


Last Priest King of Sikkim:
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[PB]

In studying maps of the world, I had wondered why India owned a little hunk territory between Nepal and Bhutan...

Before the Europeans showed up, India (including Pakistan and Bangladesh) consisted of some 300 smaller kingdoms.  The various European powers at first wanted to control trade, but slowly took political power from those various entities.  They never incorporated the kingdoms of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, etc.

In the early 1960s an American named Hope Cooke married the king of Sikkim, and became Queen Consort.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Cooke


India always controlled Sikkim's foreign policy, as they do for Bhutan.  Sikkim is one of several places in the Himalayas where the Chinese military has built roads to the border and well into India, it's the likely main invasion route should they invade India.

[PB]

... some 300 smaller kingdoms...

One, in what's now northern Pakistan was the Muslim State of Swat.  At one point during its history the term for their leader was Sultan.  There actually was a Sultan of Swat.  Lol.

[sean92008]

Rabbit hole alert

I picked this up today
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The artist's relative had this and was downsizing. While she is certainly not a famous artist (Arleen Huseby), she was an art teacher for a continuing education course and did work as a high school art teacher. She married a man (C. Elmo Gillett) who was also an artist. It's obvious they traveled together because I found its twin painting of a Maui beach scene...
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I love that they were at the same place doing the same thing.

When I got home, I sent a picture to one of my kids who is demanding that I go pick up another one of her paintings. She did a lot of Southern California stuff and it just looks like home.

[PB]

In studying maps of the world, I had wondered why India owned a little hunk territory between Nepal and Bhutan.  Seemed kind of strange...

If you're still interested in India's map, here's a bit of information I came across a while back.  Apparently there are dozens and dozens of enclaves in India and Bangladesh, some within Bangladesh belonging to India, and vice-versa. 

If that isn't odd enough, some of the enclaves have counter-enclaves within them, and there's even one counter-counter-enclave.  These must have been set tup during partition due to Hindu vs Muslim populations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_enclaves


Turns out these micro-enclaves are worldwide, including some that affect the US. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enclaves_and_exclaves

[Walks_At_Night]

If you're still interested in India's map, here's a bit of information I came across a while back.  Apparently there are dozens and dozens of enclaves in India and Bangladesh, some within Bangladesh belonging to India, and vice-versa. 

Yeah - complicated stuff.  Once worked with a Pakistani guy that was in their army and stationed in East Pakistan during the war that resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.  He ended up as a POW when that whole thing collapsed. 

[Smokin Hot Bob]

Starts a little slow but stay with it.

https://x.com/maniaUFO/status/1930938603212869841

Damn sure it was still Berenstein.

[Walks_At_Night]

Crocodile Dundee getting after it before he was famous.

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[KSM]

 Frankenstein will become Frankenstain! That is my Mandella Prediction! Frank's gonna be pissed!