Arkansas law allows babies to marry

[Hans]

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An error in a new law that allows Arkansans of any age -- even toddlers -- to marry with parental consent must be fixed by lawmakers, not an independent commission authorized to correct typos, a judge ruled Wednesday.

A woman who gave her 17-year-old daughter permission to marry based on the old law, which set the minimum marriage age at 17 for boys and 16 for girls, sued in Benton County after officials there denied her a marriage license.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/11....ap/index.html

In the mean time, Belgium is on the brink of collapse. (According to Speedy).

[GenX]

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You're right; Arkansas is much more important and interesting than tiny Belgium! [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/beerchug.gif[/img]

[Hans]

What's the date again for the collapse Speedy?

[GenX]

Of Arkansas?

[Hans]

No, the collapse of Belgium you have been heralding for weeks.

[GenX]

Can something that never really existed "collapse"?

[Hans]

From the end of the Middle Ages until the seventeenth century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. From the sixteenth century until the Belgian revolution in 1830, many battles between European powers were fought in the area of Belgium, causing it to be dubbed "the battlefield of Europe"[10] and "the cockpit of Europe"[11] – a reputation strengthened by both World Wars.

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"the cockpit of Europe" </div></div>

No doubt!!

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[Hans]

erm?

[Hans]

Germany invaded Belgium in 1914, as part of the Schlieffen Plan, and much of the Western Front fighting of World War I occurred in western parts of the country. Belgium took over the German colonies of Ruanda-Urundi (modern day Rwanda and Burundi) during the war, and they were mandated to Belgium in 1924 by the League of Nations, of which it was a founding member. The Treaty of Versailles had subjected several German border towns, most notably Eupen and Malmedy, to a plebiscite, which led to their annexation by Belgium in 1925, thereby causing the presence of a small German community.

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">which led to their annexation by Belgium in 1925 </div></div>

Isn't history funny?

You were better off under the Germans.

[Hans]

Why? Because we annexed a few states in 1925?

[GenX]

Imperialistic pigs!!!!!!!!!

[Hans]

The Berlin Conference of 1885 gave the Congo Free State to King Leopold II as his private possession. In 1908, it was ceded to Belgium as a colony, henceforth called the Belgian Congo.