In 1867 ______ wanted to sell Alaska. The United States ended up buying it, but only after ______ was offered to buy it first, but rejected.
During World War I ______ declared war on the Central Powers, but they were forgotten in the Treaty of Versailles and therefore technically remained at war with ______ until 1957.
In 2019 France played ______ in a soccer match. First they played the Andorran national anthem, before declaring the match against ______ was about to start.
Houska Castle in ______ was supposedly built with its defense walls facing inwards because it contained the gates of hell. Today a burning gas pit in ______ carries that name.
In 1919 the city of Fiume was disputed by ______ and ______. So for 5 months an eccentric poet and his gay, nudist, fighter pilot friend ran it as a proto-fascist party-town.
In 1979 a woman from ______ who had been diagnosed with objectophilia, a sense of attraction to things, married the Berlin Wall in ______ and took the last name Berliner-Mauer.
In the 90's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of ______ and his family bought about half of all the cars built by the ______ based car company Rolls-Royce.
In 1739 ______ declared war on ______ because a sailor had his ear cut off.
_______ and ______ are the only two African countries to never have been European colonies.
______ and ______ were completely uninhabited before Portuguese explorers discovered them.
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