https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museums_Act_1845
It's my understanding that the Irish Famine is not usually understood to meet the legal definition of genocide; are there any reputable dissenters to this view? I also know very little about the consensus view of Cromwell's actions
April 15th 1845
With the need for fast transportation and the modernizing and industrialization of France the president has seen fit to create a program for the creation of railways and further building of them. And with the various nations around France seemingly making railways of more importance the French in order to keep up will do the same.
With the French already having private railway companies which have been building them since 1828 the French even still have a firm grasp on how to accomplish such a project. So to stimulate growth the government will employ a program where as it will pay for the construction of the railway using the various companies manpower and engineers so the railway will be considered public property, at which point companies can take a 99 year lease to operate the railways themselves and for their own profit. This will also come with the stipulation that should they be needed for war the railways will be used by the military and take priority for military use.
While these deals are offered they are not mandatory and companies are allowed to build private railways still under the assumption should the nation ever be at threat the railway will be used by the military to protect the French people as the lives of the French and safety of the nation take priority over profit of a company.
As a second part of this in order to more organize the railway companies the French Republic will only allow 6 large companies to operate and make railways so as to simplify the process and make railways of the same design more prevalent. These six companies will be the following
Chemin de Fer de l'Est
Chemin de Fer du Nord
Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée
Chemin de Fer Paris-Orléans
Chemin de Fer du Midi
The republic of France will also set an order to have the railways be of the same design so that different companies could have their railways connect and make transportation far easier.
In order to get this ball rolling a railway from the city of creil to Mons following a path through Douai. Further railway tracts will be constructed but for now this is the first one that will be Publically funded.
It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. Evening came on, the last evening of the year. In the cold and gloom a poor little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, was walking through the streets. Of course when she had left her house she'd had slippers on, but what good had they been? They were very big slippers, way too big for her, for they belonged to her mother. The little girl had lost them running across the road, where two carriages had rattled by terribly fast. One slipper she'd not been able to find again, and a boy had run off with the other, saying he could use it very well as a cradle some day when he had children of his own. And so the little girl walked on her naked feet, which were quite red and blue with the cold. In an old apron she carried several packages of matches, and she held a box of them in her hand. No one had bought any from her all day long, and no one had given her a cent.
Shivering with cold and hunger, she crept along, a picture of misery, poor little girl! The snowflakes fell on her long fair hair, which hung in pretty curls over her neck. In all the windows lights were shining, and there was a wonderful smell of roast goose, for it was New Year's eve. Yes, she thought of that!
In a corner formed by two houses, one of which projected farther out into the street than the other, she sat down and drew up her little feet under her. She was getting colder and colder, but did not dare to go home, for she had sold no matches, nor earned a single cent, and her father would surely beat her. Besides, it was cold at home, for they had nothing over them but a roof through which the wind whistled even though the biggest cracks had been stuffed with straw and rags.
Her hands were almost dead with cold. Oh, how much one little match might warm her! If she could only take one from the box and rub it against the wall and warm her hands. She drew one out. R-r-ratch! How it sputtered and burned! It made a warm, bright flame, like a little candle, as she held her hands over it; but it gave a strange light! It really seemed to the little girl as if she were sitting before a great iron stove with shining brass knobs and a brass cover. How wonderfully the fire burned! How comfortable it was! The youngster stretched out her feet to warm them too; then the little flame went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the burnt match in her hand.
She struck another match against the wall. It burned brightly, and whe
... keep reading on reddit ➡Is it truly just a lack of light pollution and big telescopes that allowed it?
you have been visited by Lt.Waggle arms
Fun Fact: The ultimate goal of golf is to play the least amount of golf possible.
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How can we spice up golf?
uhh.. dya like jazz?
Not only him, but his entire household caught COVID. Him, his wife, and his young child. He was out of work for over 3 weeks. And he still refuses to be vaccinated or vaccinate his child since recovering. His narrative went from "COVID isn't real" to "Most people survive" to "I have natural immunity now" and "Ivermectin works". He still thinks Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates are in on it, the vaccines aren't real vaccines and don't work anyway and they will alter your DNA, the FDA and CDC are liars, the entire pandemic was planned....
And when I question his sources, he shows me... TikTok videos or Facebook memes or some garbage "news" site. It is literally unbelievable how stupid these people are.
