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quondam47 t1_iu67jie wrote

Reply to comment by open_closet in TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet

Which is ironic because the South African book burnings ended in 1971 which was five years before the Apartheid government allowed for the introduction of broadcast television to the country.

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quondam47 t1_iu0pr98 wrote

Reply to comment by MoonHunterDancer in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_

I wouldn’t think so. It was the Kingdom of Ireland from 1542 to 1801 which was a client state of the English crown so it would have been an Irish law but introduced to follow England into hostilities against Denmark-Norway in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

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quondam47 t1_itw6ohz wrote

Reply to comment by popsickle_in_one in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_

In 2014, Ireland legislated to remove thousands of obsolete laws that were left over from our time under British control. One of those was the declaration of war against Denmark in 1666 which had never been overturned.

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