VB#1 · 2005-08-29 15:59
Koning keurt 50.000 topless maagden:
LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland (Reuters) - More than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins, many hoping to be the Swazi king's 13th bride, gathered on Monday for an ancient rite critics say ill befits a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS rate.
King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, is due to attend the annual Reed Dance ceremony, which he has used since 1999 to pluck new brides from thousands of dancing girls dressed in little more than beads and traditional skirts (verder lezen kan
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TN#2 · 2005-08-29 17:58
stond laatst ook een mooi stukje over de chief van Turkmenistan in het Haarlemsch Dagblad. Hij is,zoals gepast, gekozen tot president for life; heeft een immens gouden beeld van zichzelf in de hoofdstad; laat alle meisjes bontmutsjes naar school dragen omdat dat zo schattig staat en heeft een maand naar zichzelf vernoemd.
TN#3 · 2005-08-30 10:56
hier de hele wiki over em, vooral de decree's zijn mooi en ook heeft ie niet alleen January naar zichzelf vernoemd, maar ook April naar z'n moeder
Turkmenbashi VB#4 · 2005-08-30 11:18
die lieve Turkmenbashi toch.
Mijn favoriete quote:
"I'm personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets - but it's what the people want".
ook terecht is:
Niyazov has banned ballet, opera, lip syncing when performing songs, and most recently, all recorded music.
TN#5 · 2005-09-02 10:21
Meneertje Turkmenbashi is de enige nog actieve 'President for Life', het lijstje van de gouden ouwe van dit mooie beroep wilde ik jullie ook niet onthouden.
List of Leaders who became President for Life (with date of proclamation)
- Julius Caesar of Roman Republic (perpetual dictator 45 BC) - assassinated 44 BC.
- Napoleon Bonaparte of France (first consul for life 1802) - became emperor 1804 (deposed 1814).
- Alexandre P\étion of Haiti (1808) - died in office 1818.
- Jos\é Gaspar Rodr\íguez de Francia of Paraguay (1816) - died in office 1840.
- Rafael Carrera of Guatemala (1854) - died in office 1865.
- Yuan Shikai of China (1915) - resigned under pressure 1916.
- Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia (1963) - died in office 1980.
- Sukarno of Indonesia (1963) - deposed 1967.
- Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1964) - deposed 1967.
- Fran\çois Duvalier of Haiti (1964) - died in office 1971, named his son as his successor (see below).
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi (1971) - defeated in elections 1994.
- Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti (1971) - named by his father as successor, deposed 1986.
- Jean-B\édel Bokassa of the Central African Republic (1972) - became emperor 1976 (deposed 1979).
- Francisco Mac\ías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea (1972) - deposed 1979.
- Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia (1975) - deposed 1987.
- Idi Amin of Uganda (1976) - defeated in war 1979.
- Lennox Sebe of Ciskei (1983) - deposed 1990.
Current
- Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan (1999)
Staan een paar mooie potientiele namen voor florakids in...Stancy en Hastings...