I'm pretty sure there are currently two countries called Congo.
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Angus G - Feb 07, 2003 4:31:34 am PST #1818 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Zoe Finch - Feb 07, 2003 5:11:26 am PST #1819 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
I am constantly impressed by depth of knowledge on this board, the Buffistas know everything about EVERYTHING.
Angus G - Feb 07, 2003 5:19:00 am PST #1820 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Here we are, courtesy of the CIA. (I rather love the fact that they were the first Google result!)
Democractic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire, formerly Belgian Congo, etc etc)
evil jimi - Feb 07, 2003 7:56:25 am PST #1821 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I thought The Congo referred to the river, not any country.
meara - Feb 07, 2003 9:18:52 am PST #1822 of 9843
Wait, Zaire isn't a country anymore? Well, crap, I'm so behind...
billytea - Feb 07, 2003 9:40:02 am PST #1823 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Wait, Zaire isn't a country anymore? Well, crap, I'm so behind...
They changed the name in 1997 when Laurent Kabila (the father of the current president) seized power from Mobutu (who had changed its name from Congo to Zaïre in 1971). Sort of an out with the old, in with the older deal.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2003 9:44:30 am PST #1824 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I always got all confused with geography because in my high school, they didn't seem to have much of a map budget, so the big maps in the classrooms were replaced one at a time, and not terribly often, so every classroom had maps from different years showing different country names and borders. My tenth grade history teacher went into a rant about this when he realized that the map in our classroom still showed Rhodesia. (My school cut the budget in weird places. The bells and the intercom broke at the same time, and it was decided that they could only replace one, so they replaced the intercom, and broadcast a recording of church bells over it when it was time to change classes.)
billytea - Feb 07, 2003 9:45:37 am PST #1825 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
(My school cut the budget in weird places. The bells and the intercom broke at the same time, and it was decided that they could only replace one, so they replaced the intercom, and broadcast a recording of church bells over it when it was time to change classes.)
Hee. That's actually quite clever.
Jesse - Feb 07, 2003 9:46:59 am PST #1826 of 9843
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
At my high school they played music to signal time to change classes. Sometimes kids picked the music, sometimes staff did, and it was kind of fun.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2003 9:48:26 am PST #1827 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The only problem was that you could only hear the bells if you were somewhere that had an intercom. So you couldn't hear the bell if you were outside, or in the bathroom, or in a crowded hallway.