Your country's greatest achievment

[Caliga]

  Maybe in Latin, but my post was not written in Latin, was it?

[Rasputin]

Maybe in Latin, but my post was not written in Latin, was it?

It's the name of a specific document.

[The Brain]

OMG LOL don't you see? Raz-Putin? He's the thing we have feared for so long finally come to pass.

[Rasputin]

OMG LOL don't you see? Raz-Putin? He's the thing we have feared for so long finally come to pass.

ttfn

[Barrister]

After doing some research, I believe I have discovered Canada's greatest acheivement.

http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/inventions.html?inventionID=49

[grumbler]

Indeed nobody remember the Magna carter either.

Precisely.  They remember the Magna Carta, but the more important Magna carter of 1009, who carried what would be the Magna Carta in his wagon, is forgotten.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

OMG LOL don't you see? Raz-Putin? He's the thing we have feared for so long finally come to pass.

:LOL:

[Caliga]

 

[Caliga]

Raz-Putin? He's the thing we have feared for so long finally come to pass.

The Russian bear who won't send his armies out of Russia for fear of the nebulous 'lions' beyond the border?

[Viking]

Raz-Putin? He's the thing we have feared for so long finally come to pass.

The Russian bear who won't send his armies out of Russia for fear of the nebulous 'lions' beyond the border?

So basically you are saying

Georgia ∈ Russia ?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

There is a difference between Internet and internet?

By the way, I'd say the internet was the greatest invention of the 20th century, eclipsing stuff like spaceflight or nuclear fission. The internet has changed the daily lifes of billions and has not yet realized its full potential.
That said, spaceflight might still outdo it if it ever becomes viable for mass use.

depending on how you look at spaceflight, that too has changed the lives of billions of people, albeit in less obvious ways

[Josquius]

Uhm, I said the Internet with the capital I. Do you have vision problems?

My dyslexia is well known.
Woops.


For the Internet its too early in the day to judge if its the best thing ever (what with it only really picking up in the last 15 years) but the signs are good that it could well be in the future.

[dps]

The word "abandoned" suggests that anybody survived, nobody did to the best of our knowledge. They were probably wiped out by the weather and the Inuit which moved into Greenland from the canadian arctic in the 1200s

I think the most prevalent theories today are that the Inuit enslaved/killed them, or possibly Portuguese/Basques/other early seafarers enslaved/killed them.  Or it might be something as random and depressing as the remaining Greenlanders decided to evacuate Greenland due to the deteriorating conditions, and piled into one ship which sank before it reached Iceland or wherever they tried to get to.

I think that they basically just starved out.  The question of when the Norse settlement finally ended in Greenland is an interesting one as well.  Seems like anytime between 1450 and 1690 is possible, with something like 1500-1550 being most likely.

[The Brain]

OTOH there are still stories of a pale and blond master race of Eskimos living in very high latitudes.

[Martinus]

Maybe in Latin, but my post was not written in Latin, was it?

"Charta" is definitely NOT in Latin.

It's Magna Carta.