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Americans who don't live in the SF Bay Area:

Do you know what a "valley girl" is? Or, do you know what "valley girl talk" sounds like?

I'm curious, because I was chatting with my mom, and she thinks valley girl is a slang term that's fairly specific to the Santa Clara Valley and the South Bay. I was surprised... I hadn't thought that it might just be a local phrase, and not a more spread out one, because I'd heard it a lot growing up. I could certainly identify a valley girl stereotype in a movie or on tv. Which of course makes me California-centric, I admit, but hey I do live here.

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rashaka.livejournal.com

Huh. I've never heard that in any of my california history in school. It seems kind of stupid of the guy, especially considering how illegal it is. You can't hold a title of nobility and be a citizen of the US. But its amusing that the locals tolerated him.

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mrthursday.livejournal.com

It seems kind of stupid of the guy

Especailly since the US government had begun cracking down on private currency plans quite ruthlessly.
Norton became quite a national clebrity once the railroads where finished. People came from as far away as New York to met the "beggar King", and his investment bonds (that he sold to tourisist if they asked...he didn't think it was very kingly to sell things) are now collectors items. He was a friend of Mark Twain (the authour thought Norton a kind and humane man) who based several of his Book characters on him.

He also appears as a character in Neil Gaimen's Sandman Comic, which is well worth a read. some one once told me they where going to make a Anime out of it, but I supposes if they had you of all people would know about it!

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rashaka.livejournal.com

Now that I think about it, I remember something like a "beggar king", or similar, in Huck Finn.

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mrthursday.livejournal.com

That sounds like our man!

Emperor Norotn is my favourite monarch. He started no wars, taxed no one into starvation, oppressed no people. No one ever had to die in his name. There aren't many Crowned heads who can claim that!

From:

rashaka.livejournal.com

there was a brief war with Canada where no one died.

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mrthursday.livejournal.com

ReallY?

The British Empire once had a 20 minute war with an Africian nation, but peace was decalred before any fighting. I'm not sure if that is the shortest ever war?