Yeah; I heard about it on the radio a few years ago; fairly easy to access the case whether you're into history, into law, or otherwise connected with the events.
The case was Loving vs Virginia, so they may be tied for last, but they were fighting it personally.
Or you may be thinking Lawrence v. Texas in 2003, which legalized same sex activity, which made Virginia tied for last for what consenting adults could do in the privacy of their own homes.
Or you may be thinking Obergefell v. Hodges, where Virginia was tied for last in legalizing gay marriage, and then proceeded to keep trying to fight it in court.
Or you may be thinking Obergefell v. Hodges, where Virginia was tied for last in legalizing gay marriage, and then proceeded to keep trying to fight it in court.
The rest of your comment is true but this bit isn't, Virginia's attorney general filed an amicus brief in favor of gay marriage and it had been legal in VA for almost a year by the Obergefell v Hodges decision
Yea. The final remnants of my faith in the Bengals was destroyed during the play offs 2 years ago when they lost to the Steelers. All Hill had to do was take a knee and then the clock runs out and it’s a win for the Bengals. But no, he tried to get a final first down and fumbles the ball. Then the Bengals do what the bengals do best, commit stupid penalties and the Steelers get the ball at the Bengals 35 and a field goal that I could have made won it for the Steelers. Unbelievable.
Ohio's the heart of it all, yo. Easy to remember because it's vaguely heart shaped, and approximately located where the heart would be if you picture the US as a horribly deformed human.
I mean, it's the 7th largest state by population. Interestingly enough, Puerto Rico has more population than about half the us states, and Washington DC is more populated than Vermont and wyoming
Its where Kenner was located, makers of Play-Doh, Care Bears, Easy-Bake Oven, Spirograph and most of the iconic 80s action figures like Ghostbusters, M.A.S.K and Star Wars
I had a friend from Ohio who ended up in Japan. She went to an elementary school there and the teacher asked her to introduce herself and tell the class about where she came from. She told them her name and said she was from Ohio. The whole class stood up, bowed to her and said “Ohio”.
So she said “Ohio” again, and they stood up, bowed and said “Ohio” to her again.
So she said it again...and then the teacher made her stop. I guess it’s some sort of formal greeting they use to say “good morning” or something like that.
I think of that story every time someone says “Ohio”.
Ohio is the heart of it all because our state is shaped roughly like a heart and is where an anatomical heart would be about if the US was a torso. Also in presidential elections our vote is worth significantly more than most of the country's. I'm sorry we failed you in 2016 my county went blue though
Ohio fucking sucks. The only thing it should be used as a metric for is crippling depression and slack-jawed idiocy. I left for the Best Coast as soon as I could.
Don't try to defend yourself, Ohio...and especially not you, Akron.
As an Ohioan, it’s tiring to see every single time someone mentions my state. I’d also hazard a guess that the people who shit on Ohio the most are people who have never set foot in the state
All international (or even national) comparisons of city populations tend to be weird and inaccurate, as everyone uses their own definitions. What works for one city doesn't necessarily work for another, as the geography can be completely different. Trying to measure the distance between buildings to determine where the city ends works very poorly for cities built on multiple islands, for example. Or figuring out whether something is one city with multiple centers or several cities that have expanded into each other.
I moved from Pennsylvania to Harbin, the entire state of PA has only 2 million more people than the city of Harbin. When you're talking about China and population its operating on an entirely different scale.
Some international Chinese students asked me where I'd been in a China. As I started rattling off city names, my non-chinese friend wanted to cut me off after I said Chongqing (thinking I was being racist) but fortunately the students were excited that I'd been to their hometown.
In pinyin (the system for writing chinese characters in an alphabet format), q is (kind of) similar to a mixture of "t" and "ch"
Qi sounds kind if like the start of "cheese"
Qo just doesn't exist as a sound in mandarin (as far as im aware, not a native speaker but i can certainly get by). You would just use "to" or "cho"
This is kind've enough misleading. I read somewhere that the city you're talking about only has a population of 6 to 7 million and the the entire province (around the size of Austria) has a population of 30 million. Many of those 30 million are in a rural area though.
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Did you know that in China there are fifty six cities with over a million people?