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Nearly Sane

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Fordlandia
« on: February 23, 2017, 06:45:54 PM »


Only found out about this today, how odd?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia
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Re: Fordlandia
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2017, 07:47:17 PM »
Couldn't open your link but googled fordlandia and found the wiki page.
I hadn't heard of it before.
Strange but fascinating.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Fordlandia&oq=Fordlandia&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61.3611j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Re: Fordlandia
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2017, 07:49:10 PM »
Quote from: Robinson on February 23, 2017, 07:47:17 PM
Couldn't open your link but googled fordlandia and found the wiki page.
I hadn't heard of it before.
Strange but fascinating.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Fordlandia&oq=Fordlandia&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61.3611j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Hope this works, oddly the break appears unless you edit it


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia


I would also suggest as a fascinating tale in Sth America - Nueva Germania set up in part by Nietzsche's sister. Covered in Ben McIntyres book, Forgotten Fatherland
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Re: Fordlandia
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2017, 01:46:51 PM »
The â breaks the rendering of the link. I'm  surprised that Wikipedia hasn't percent encoded it.
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