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Comment Re:The band in question (Score 1) 317

Are you saying you don't pay any attention to news outside your national border?

Well, I don't care about what happens in my national border or even in my city either :D

Anyhow, I didn't say what you mean, I merely said it was hard to follow. I am not sure if Romania is already in the EU or not, or using the Euro or not. If they are not yet, I am sure it is on the way and that it should happen in a few years.
What I know for sure is that Turkey is not a member yet and is facing a lot of opposition concerning its membership.

I am also aware that Czechoslovakia split into Czech Republic and Slovakia for more than 10 years, yet I still sometimes refer to "Czechoslovakia" when listing European countries. (And I often mention Soviet Russia when posting anonymously on slashdot, but this is another matter).

I don't know much about US politics but wikipedia states that "Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824."

Comment Re:The band in question (Score 1) 317

For their (and my) defense, the countries composing the European Union are changing a lot more than the states in the USA. Well, even the European countries have changed names/frontiers a lot since I left school (where I had to learn this kind of stuff).

It is indeed quite difficult to remember which countries are in Europe (the continent) and/or European Union and/or using the Euro currency.

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Submission + - 'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dead at 80 (google.com) 2

krouic writes: Patrick McGoohan, an Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show "The Prisoner", has died. He was 80. McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said Wednesday. McGoohan won two Emmys for his work on the Peter Falk detective drama "Columbo", and more recently appeared as King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film "Braveheart". But he was best known as the title character Number Six in "The Prisoner," a surreal 1960s British series in which a former spy is held captive in a small village and constantly tries to escape.
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Submission + - The Prisoner's Patrick McGoohan Dead at 80 (sfgate.com)

I_want_information writes: "The creator and star of the BBC's surreal television series The Prisoner has died in Los Angeles at the age of 80. It had been hoped that he could have put in a cameo appearance in AMC's remake of the series but apparently he was not well enough to travel to Namibia where it was being filmed.

He will be missed.

If you missed the 1967 incarnation (or just want to revisit The Village), all 17 original episodes can be viewed online in full-screen mode here."

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