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01/02/2020

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In 2003, the Dixie Chicks denounced George W Bush on stage in London and the country establishment turned against them.

While performing in London in March 2003, just nine days before the US invasion of Iraq, Maines told the crowd: “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”

At the time of Maines’s quote, though, not even two years after the 9/11 attacks, country music was particularly steeped in earnestly patriotic drum-banging. Toby Keith’s Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, on which he promised, “You’ll be sorry that you messed with the US of A/ ’Cause we’ll put a boot in your ass – it’s the American way,” became his career-defining hit in 2002.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/19/the-dixie-chicks-tour-is-country-music-ready-to-forgive

Doberman Pinscher

breed of dog

Doberman Pinscher, also called Doberman or Dobe, breed of working dog developed in Apolda, Germany, by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, atax collector, night watchman, dogcatcher, and keeper of a dog pound, about 1890.

https://www.britannica.com/animal/Doberman-pinscher#ref7147

• Fact ot Fiction? *

01/02/2020

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Only one of the seven sections of the Kama Sutra is devoted to sex - the rest is about relationships and being a good citizen.

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01/02/2020

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Barack Obama's grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was distantly related to six other US presidents (besides Obama).

Character Jason Bourne's real name is actually David Webb.

There have been 125 civil wars since the end of WWII.

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01/02/2020

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The word 'smut' is also the name of a type of fungus that lives on corn kernels.

In a microwave oven, water molecules vibrate at five billion times per second.

Dead artist Andy Warhol has had 159 of his works stolen.

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01/02/2020

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Currency causes more marital arguements than any other topic, including infidelity.

Hitler's school report remarked that he was "bad tempered and fancied himself as a leader".

St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, wasn't even Irish.