Dubbo to The Dish

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90km in 4 minutes 21 seconds.

Comments

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

British Imperial Units... we did have an Empire once, biggest the world has ever seen actually both in terms of land mass [43%] and population [61%].

Also teh only one in recorded history which was voluntarily dismantled. [America doesn't count since technically it revolted before the empire was formed.]

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

...biggest the world has ever seen actually both in terms of land mass [43%] and population [61%]...

I have to respectfully disagree with that. The Hapsburgs controlled a much larger empire when they got the seat of the HRE. Charles I of Spain (and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire) received titles in 1519 claiming over 2/3 of the world's landmass:

King of the Romans, Emperor-elect; semper Augustus; King of Spain, Sicily, Jerusalem, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Indies and the mainland on the far side of the Atlantic; Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Luxembourg, Limburg, Athens and Patras; Count of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol; Count Palatine of Burgundy, Hainault, Pfirt, Roussilon, Landgrave of Alsace; Count of Swabia; Lord of Asia and Africa.

-=TK

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Claim, yes. But did they actually rule it?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

For varying definitions of "rule," yes. They controlled the trade with all of those locations, and had governmental systems on the ground in each one. When you add in their direct relations and tributary extended family (those who ruled in the family name), the Hapsburgs were the most powerful family in history.

Then the Brits defeated the Spanish Armada...

-=TK