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52 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Well, the Polish anthem's lyrics were written in 1797 in Reggio Emilia so it's obvious Italy has a prominent place in the lyrics :p Even though that part of Italy was under French rule back then ;)

And when you go (way) further back in time, you find the Dutch anthem where the main verse - the one that's generally sung - ends with "The King of Spain....I've always honoured" :p 

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7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And when you go (way) further back in time, you find the Dutch anthem where the main verse - the one that's generally sung - ends with "The King of Spain....I've always honoured" :p 

 

Technically speaking Wilhelm Orange was a German, right? :p

 

Same shit as Poland's most famous epic poem that starts with: "O Lithuania, my homeland" :lol:

 

The poet who wrote this was Polish but simply lived in Lithuania then under Russian Empire rule but currently his birth place is actually within Belarus borders :p

 

Nothing like the geo-politics of centuries gone by! :clap:

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10 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Well, the Polish anthem's lyrics were written in 1797 in Reggio Emilia so it's obvious Italy has a prominent place in the lyrics :p Even though that part of Italy was under French rule back then ;)

 

yeah, but that area was also the main cradle of the Resistence against Napoleon and actually the Italian Flag as all the people know nowadays was created in Reggio Emilia on January 7th, 1797, in open opposition to all those who wanted to adopt the French Tricouleur following Napoleon's will...

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Shiffrin in rage mood, destroying everyone again,

 

Vlhová with quite bad qualification runs and will have a very hard draw, if she pass Danioth, then probably she´ll have to face Brignone in 2nd round, Robinson in QF and Holdener/Rebensburg in semis, Shiffrin thanks her win in the qualifiers has basically no opposition until the final

 

yes the clash of 1st round is certainly Holdener vs Rebensburg

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bad knee injury for Danioth :cry:

 

good results for the Italian girls (3rd, 4th and 5th place at the end of the day)...

 

and overall, very entertaining competition with a lot of surprises (if someone did dare to bet on a gold medal clash between :FRA Direz and :AUT Moerzinger, probably right now he/she'd be preparing his/her luggage to fly to the Caribbean for the rest of his/her life)...

 

p.s. first ever WC podium for both the finalists...

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