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  • #9: Norway - Tales of Viking Femme Fatale Lagertha, The Race to The South Pole and The Scottish Brigadier in the Norwegian military

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      Show Notes

      • Map of Norway
      • The Viking Femme Fatale: Lagertha
      • The Habsburg Jaw
      • Race to the South Pole map
      • British team reaches the South Pole
      • Norway’s Flag
      • Emoji Flag:
      • Flag-ception: Norway contains other flags
      • Large oil industry in an environmentally friendly country
      • Income equality and taxes
      • Sir Nils Olav being promoted to Brigadier by Norwegian King's Guard
        • 1 hr 30 min
      • #8: Seychelles 🇸🇨 - Coconut Lingerie, Tortoises and flags flags flags 🎉

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          • Show Notes

          • Map
          • Name origins
          • Historical French and British rule
          • Coco de Mer: Coconuts & lingerie
          • Tourism industry
          • Pirates
          • Tortoises 🐢
          • The Seychelles Flag
          • Get your own parachutists toy!
          • General flag design
          • Kane B: “Vexillology - Basic Principles of Flag Design”
          • The Maryland Flag
          • Unicode / emoji flags
          • Computerphile: “Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle”
          • Political systems
            • 58 min
          • +2: Revisiting the US Election 2020 - State of the election, defending Emily Murphy and claims of election fraud

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              • In this one:

              • State of the election
              • Georgia’s runoff elections
              • Democrats vs Republican candidates
              • Trump as a revolutionary
              • Representation in a two party system
              • Republicans boycotting elections
              • The (lack of) validity to Trump’s fraud claims
              • The transition of power (in defence of Emily Murphy)
              • Obama’s decision to raid bin laden’s complex
              • The law making process / separation of powers
              • Political Ties: Jeremy Corbyn with David Cameron
              • Political Ties: Nick Clegg, Cameron, Brown
              • Party Politics
              • Tactics of would be election fraudsters
              • #SettleForBiden
              • AOC 2024?
                • 48 min
              • #7: Kosovo - Independence, Flags (again) and Notable People who have come from the young nation

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                  • Show Notes

                  • Map of Kosovo
                  • Map with ethnic distribution
                  • Flag for Texas
                  • Flag of Chile
                  • People using the Chile flag as Texas flag
                  • Kosovo Flag
                  • Emoji Flag: Kosovo 🇽🇰
                  • GCP Grey: “Hexagons are the Bestagons”
                  • Ireland flag vs Ivory Coast flag
                  • The Newborn Monument with graffiti
                  • The Newborn Monument with supporting countries
                  • The Wall as a Canvas Graffiti Wall
                    • 55 min
                  • #5: Brazil - Should prisoners be able to vote? The Rainforest. And flags should look good in small.

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                      • Notes

                      • Should prisoners be able to vote?
                      • The Rainforest: what's happening at the moment
                      • Medical medicines invented / discovered in Brazil
                      • Other Brazilian inventions / discoveries
                      • Origins of the 'Amazon' name
                      • The Brazilian flag
                      • The alternative (US style)
                      • Other Flags
                      • Emoji Flags

                        • Flags (in order of appearance):

                        1. 🇧🇷Brazil
                        2. 🇮🇪Ireland
                        3. 🇺🇸United States
                        4. 🇿🇦South Africa
                        5. 🇳🇵Nepal
                        6. 🇨🇭Switzerland
                        7. 🇳🇴Norway
                        8. 🇹🇷Turkey


                          9. Additional Links: 

                          vlogbrothers: The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned (https://youtu.be/zhESYHHbzsc)


                          37 min
                        10. +1: US Election 2020 - "A republic if you can keep it"
                          As the UK has gone into a second national lockdown, Rob and I are recording remotely and as a test of the new setup, we talked about the ongoing election in America. This was recorded Friday 6th November while the current state of the presidential race is disputed based on whether Arizona should be called for Biden (Fox News and The Associated Press have called it while other outlets say it's still too close).
                          The news coverage
                          Threats to the democracy
                          The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution (two-term limits)
                          Franklin Roosevelt
                          The worst case outcomes: Trump 2024 / A new civil war
                          Congress
                          Bernie Sanders / ideal candidates
                          Third party candidates
                          Mitch McConnell
                          Favourite republicans
                          Dream Candidates
                          Money in politics / Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewarts's PAC
                          The Young Turks / media in America
                          36 min
                        11. #3: Ireland - Mostly a Peaceful Transition

                          Show Notes

                          • The relationship between Ireland and the UK
                          • CGP Grey: 'Indian' or 'Native American'? [Reservations, Part 0]
                          • Ed Sheeran's Divide
                          • Irish Independence
                          • The Wind That Shakes the Barley
                          • Origins of the name "Ireland"
                          • Mythology / Fionn mac Cumhaill
                          • Christianity: Mostly a Peaceful Transition
                          • Monasteries and the Vikings



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                              • Show Notes (cont.)

                              • The Flag! 🇮🇪
                              • The Future Fall of the Union
                              • Hard vs Soft border
                              • Where should we go next
                              • Geography Now
                              • The Dublin Whiskey Fire
                              • The Origins of Halloween
                                • 39 min

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                              We talk about things that interest us from a different country each episode