Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 04:48 PM Monday 10/27/2008, Claes Wallin wrote:
[snip]
Modern version (and possibly a digression):
(1) If a country's government is forced out of the capital and loses
control of most of the country, is the area controlled by that
government still the original
On Oct 28, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Claes Wallin wrote:
To be sure, China is not the only interesting country in this aspect.
See East and West Germany, Czechia and Slovakia, the former
Yugoslavian
countries, the North and the South in the American Civil War etc. But
China is more interesting,
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
Hungary is the only country I know of which borders entirely on
land that used to belong to it.
Austria, Mexico, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Peru ...
Alberto Monteiro
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At 01:47 AM Tuesday 10/28/2008, Claes Wallin wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
[snip]
Which specific country[ies] are you thinking of which changed in
1949 and 1972?
The Chinese Nationalist Party of the Republic of China were driven to
Taiwan by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
I shed skin cells all the time, and they are replaced by new cells.
The skin I had 20 years ago is literally not the same skin I have
now. Does that mean my skin doesn't exist, or is only as real in the
same way a whirlpool is real?
I am firmly of the opinion that
At 04:48 PM Monday 10/27/2008, Claes Wallin wrote:
[snip]
Modern version (and possibly a digression):
(1) If a country's government is forced out of the capital and loses
control of most of the country, is the area controlled by that
government still the original country, only with a drastically
