Yeaah…I'm pretty sure this video isn't safe for work. Ladies and gay men, I give you Hunky Jesus.
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We all know it is auto-tuned, and that many of you hate autotuning, so for those of you who can't stand the stuff, don't listen to this, and that way you won't have to complain to the rest of us. At least this isn't like those damned chimes going off every 15 minutes in the cemetery down the street…
I had no idea we were so powerful. The loon in this video describes the ways Communists will undermine True American values: by promoting feminism, environmentalism, homosexuality, and atheism. Squeee! He's talking about Pharyngula!
I think I'm pretty much an anti-Cleon Skousen, too.
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Ancien régime France had a very complicated system of noble titles, much more complex than its English counterpart. I'm no expert, but the Wikipedia article seems to provide a decent summary.
Although the Revolution abolished the privileges of the nobility, there are still French aristocratic families who continue to use their titles. (For instance, Prince Consort Henrik, the husband of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, is from a French noble family and bears the hereditary title of Comte de Monpezat.)
Today, there are two pretenders with a claim to be King of France. Louis Alphonse, Duc d'Anjou is the "Legitimist" claimant, being the heir of King Charles X who was overthrown by the July Revolution in 1830. There is a rival "Orleanist" claimant, Prince Henri; he's descended from Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, who was installed as a puppet-king by the revolutionaries between 1830 and 1848. (If France were ever to restore its monarchy, they'd obviously have to decide which branch of the House of Bourbon to install as the restored royal family.)
Even more confusingly, there's also a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Napoléon, who claims the title of "Emperor of the French". And during the French Empire, Napoleon created his own titles of nobility which were different from those existing under the ancien régime.
Yep. The Spanish monarchy was restored in 1975, following the death of the Spanish dictator General Franco. Juan Carlos I has reigned as King of Spain since 1975, and has transformed the country from a dictatorship into a liberal constitutional monarchy.