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'''The Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands''' (ISKNSITL) ruled the southeastern portion of several of the lesser ] from late antiquity until the ] dissolution of the ].
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==The Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands==
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The origins of the Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands are clouded by the mists of time and legend. For many centuries, Sandwichians and even scholars have believed the ISKNSITL to have been founded by a group of ] who had wandered woefully off course.<ref>Martin Saraband, ”The Vikings and ISKNSITL: A Reevaluation,” ''ISKNSITL Studies'', Vol. 44, December 1937, 18-84.</ref> However, recent ] reveals the majority of the South Sandwich population to be descendants of the ] peoples of central ]. The exciting 1977 archeological discovery <ref>Edgar Riley, ”The Pibckadoperen Inscription and its Implications for Northwest South Sandwichean Studies,” ''Archeology Today'', March, 1978, 867-912.</ref> of a stone tablet bearing the inscription “I claim this molehill for the Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands – Francis Pibckadoperen – 5 August, ]” firmly established that the Kingdom had been founded no later than 5 August, 288 B.C.
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|GDP_PPP = ] $70.650 trillion
===The First Urantian Dynasty (111 B.C. – 46 A.D.)===
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] (reigned 111 B.C. – 84 B.C.) is the oldest ISKNSITL monarch of whom records exist. He was also the first Urantian ]. The Urantians were one of a dozen or so family clans competing for power during the second and third centuries B.C. The ] establishment date marks Clover’s consolidation of these clans under a single ruler, following the infamous “bloodless war,” a brutal game of one-upmanship during which clan leaders attempted to make each other ]<ref>Raymond Remond, “The Significance of Herring in Sandwichean Culture,” ''Journal of the South Atlantic Historical Society'', February, 1994, 42-55.</ref> and, in turn, power over their families and vassals. “Losing face,” in accordance with age-old Sandwichian custom, could mean anything from failing to get a good laugh from one’s subjects after a solid gag to the dressing of one’s ox in the trappings of an orthodontist.
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By 111, Clover’s only competition was the strongly-Hellenized prince ], who maintained iron control over his people through strict rules concerning ], the improper use of which could result in death, or worse. In a face-losing contest, Clover tricked Potiamian into performing unnatural acts with sea bass. This glorious victory sealed Clover’s status as first among unequals and gave him to right to sit at the head of the famed Sandwichian ].

'''''World''''' is a common name for the planet ] seen from a ] ], as a place inhabited by ]. It is often used to signify the sum of human ] and ], or the ']' in general.
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In a ] context, ''World'' may refer to the ], everything that constitutes ]: see ]
===Democratic Interregnum (46 – 346)===

==Etymology==
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In ], the etymology of '']'' may be a compound of the obsolete words ''],'' "man", and ''eld,'' "age"; thus, its etymology would be semantically rendered as "age or life of man".<ref> </ref> Compare to the word for "world" in a closely related language to English, Dutch, which is "wereld."<ref> </ref>
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The Urantian Dynasty lost power when upon his death King Clover IV ½, “The Lune,” left the Kingdom to his eighty-seven cats. A radical democratic faction fooled the cats into chasing a “pack of mice” out of the castle. On closer inspection, the “mice” turned out to be the idiot Seeber’s torn tassles.<ref>William Wright, ''The Life, Times and Herring of King Clover IV 1/2'', Penguin, 1962.</ref>
==Usage==
'World' distinguishes the entire ] or ] from any particular ] or ]: ''world affairs'' are those which pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and '']'' is a field of ] which examines events from a global (rather than a national or a regional) perspective. ''Earth'', on the other hand, refers to the planet as a physical entity, and distinguishes it from other planets and physical objects.
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<nowiki>'</nowiki>''World''<nowiki>'</nowiki> can also be used attributively, as an ], to mean 'global', 'relating to the whole world', forming usages such as ]. See ].
===Volkerwanderung (346)===

By extension, a <nowiki>'</nowiki>''world''<nowiki>'</nowiki> may refer to any planet or ], especially when it is thought of as inhabited.
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<nowiki>'</nowiki>''World''<nowiki>'</nowiki>, when qualified, can also refer to a particular domain of ] ].
The ] did not bother with the southeastern portions of the Sandwich Islands, primarily because their primitive maps portrayed the “end of Earth” some 3,800 miles northeast of the South Sandwich Islands. Distraught over the Volkerwanderung’s snub, the Second Urantian Dynasty ceded sovereignty for “three hundred and ye odde yeares” to the ] family of ]. <ref>”The Everly Codicil,” ''ISKNSITL Studies'', Vol. 56, June 1949, 162-167.</ref>

* The ''world of work'' describes paid work and the pursuit of a ], in all its social aspects, to distinguish it from home life and ] study.
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* The ''fashion world'' describes the environment of the designers, ]s and ]s that make up the ].
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* The '']'' is a part of the world discovered or colonized by ]ans later than other parts; it usually refers to the ] continents or to ]. ] and ] tend to dislike this usage. For them America and Australia are not new. Their ancestors have lived there since ]. The '']'' refers, by contrast, to the continents of ], ] and north ].
===The Everly Dynasty (346 – 818)===

==Earth==
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'''Earth''' is the only place in the ] where ] is known by ] to exist at this time.
The Everlys ruled with an iron fist, yet were loved by the people for bringing stability and for never bothering to leave Kensington to visit their Kingdom.
Most scientific evidence indicates that the planet formed ] ago,<ref name="age_earth">{{cite book
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===The Third and Final Holy Roman Urantian Dynasty and Empire Gift Shop (846 – 1806):===
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The near thousand-year rule of The Third and Final Holy Roman Urantian Dynasty and Empire Gift Shop brought unparalleled stability to the Northwest South Sandwich Islands.
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The ] ascension of ] “The Disgruntled” to the throne brought a new reign of terror upon the Sandwichians. As a mad expression of his absolute power, King Krabaple insisted upon shooting a peasant a day. Horrified by this idea, his minister of state dressed himself as a peasant and was shot. After a month and the succession of thirty ministers of state, one brilliant minister came up with the idea of filling the King’s gun with blanks and faking death. <ref>Anna Franpa, ”Mad King Krabaple and the Thirty Ministers,” ''ISKNSITL Studies'', Vol. 74, December 1967, 34-82.</ref>
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In ], the revolutionary “]” movement, a group of rebel Guards of the Royal Order of Urantian ], attempted to overthrow the newly crowned ]. The movement failed for two reasons: (1) All of ISKNSITL is on holiday the month of August; (2) Urantian Kings do not arm their Mall Cops, primarily to avoid accidental shootings.<ref>Toby Johansen, ''So Close to Glory: The Augustist Movement'', Random House, 1988.</ref>
| title=The age of the Earth in the twentieth century: a problem (mostly) solved
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The end of the Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands came in 1806, when the Holy Roman Empire dissolved. The Kingdom had signed a covenant with the Holy Roman Empire centuries earlier, and upon hearing of the dissolution of the Empire, ceded sovereignty to the ]’s ].
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}}</ref> and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's ] has significantly altered ] and other ] conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of ] as well as the formation of the ] which, together with Earth's ], blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land.<ref>{{cite book
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* Egstikel, Harold, ''ISKNSITL: The Glory, the Power, the Herring'' (1932, The Mechanical Press for the Society for the Reinstitution of ISKNSITL)
| publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry
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* Gibbon, Brentley, ''The Rise and Fall of the Second Urantian Dynasty'' (87 vols., 1844)
Earth's ] is divided into several rigid segments, or ]s, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of ]. About 71% of the surface is covered with ] ]s, the remainder consisting of ]s and ]s; liquid ], necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet's surface.<ref>Other planets in the solar system are either too hot or too cold to support liquid water. However, it is confirmed to have existed on the surface of Mars in the past, and may still appear today. See: <cite>{{cite news
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* Mortley, Mortimer, ''Bye Bye Love: The Everly Abdication'' (1948)
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*''ISKNSITL Studies''
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*''Proceedings of the Society for the Study of Urantian Monarchy''
| title=Water vapour in the atmosphere of a transiting extrasolar planet
| journal=Nature | date=July, 2007 | volume=448
| pages=169–171 | doi= 10.1038/nature06002}}</ref> Earth's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid ], a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron ].

The earth consists of seven continents listed as follows: North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia; the largest of which is Asia. There are several other methods of determining the continents.

Earth is impacted upon by other objects in ], including the ] and the ]. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 365.26 times it rotates about its axis. This length of time is a ], which is equal to 365.26 ]s.<ref>The number of solar days is one less than the number of ]s because the orbital motion of the Earth about the Sun results in one additional revolution of the planet about its axis.</ref> The Earth's axis of rotation is ] 23.4° away from the ] to its ],<ref>Ahrens, ''Global Earth Physics: A Handbook of Physical Constants'', p. 8.</ref> producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one ] (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known ], the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean ]s, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. A ]ary bombardment during the early history of the planet played a role in the formation of the oceans.<ref name="comet">{{cite journal | author=Morbidelli, A.; Chambers, J.; Lunine, J. I.; Petit, J. M.; Robert, F.; Valsecchi, G. B.; Cyr, K. E. | title=Source regions and time scales for the delivery of water to Earth | journal=Meteoritics & Planetary Science | year=2000 | volume=35 | issue=6 | pages=1309–1320 | url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000M&PS...35.1309M | accessdate=2007-03-06 }}</ref> Later, ] impacts caused significant changes to the surface environment.

==Humanity==
{{See|Human|World population}}
Humans are ] ]s belonging to the ]ian species ''Homo sapiens''. Compared to other animals, humans have a relatively ] brain capable of abstract reasoning, ], and ]. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of ]s than any other species. ] evidence indicates that modern humans originated in ] about 200,000&nbsp;years ago.<ref></ref> Humans now inhabit every continent and ], with a total population of over 6.73 billion humans as of January 2009.<ref name="popclock">{{cite web
|url=http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html
|title=World POPClock Projection
|accessdate=2007-06-14
|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division/International Programs Center}}</ref>

Like most primates, humans are social by nature. However, humans are particularly adept at utilizing systems of communication for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization. Humans create complex ]s composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from ] to ]s. ]s between humans have established an extremely wide variety of traditions, rituals, ethics, values, ], and ]s which form the basis of human society. Humans have a marked appreciation for beauty and aesthetics which, combined with the human desire for self-expression, has led to cultural innovations such as ], ] and ].

Humans are noted for their desire to understand and influence the world around them, seeking to explain and manipulate natural phenomena through ], ], ] and ]. This natural curiosity has led to the development of advanced tools and skills.

==Development==
{{Main|International development}}
A summary of world development:
*The universe is continuing its ].
*Our galaxy is ].
*The Sun is ].
*Species are ].
*Humans are ].
*Human life expectancy, literacy, education, standard of living, and ] are increasing.
*] and ] are also developing.

==See also==
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==External links==
*{{CIA World Factbook link|xx|World}}

==References==
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Revision as of 21:02, 6 April 2009

- The Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands (ISKNSITL) ruled the southeastern portion of several of the lesser Sandwich Islands from late antiquity until the 1806 dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.

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The Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands

- - The origins of the Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands are clouded by the mists of time and legend. For many centuries, Sandwichians and even scholars have believed the ISKNSITL to have been founded by a group of Vikings who had wandered woefully off course. However, recent genetic testing reveals the majority of the South Sandwich population to be descendants of the Litchensteinian peoples of central Europe. The exciting 1977 archeological discovery of a stone tablet bearing the inscription “I claim this molehill for the Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands – Francis Pibckadoperen – 5 August, 288 B.C.” firmly established that the Kingdom had been founded no later than 5 August, 288 B.C.

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The First Urantian Dynasty (111 B.C. – 46 A.D.)

- - King Clover I (reigned 111 B.C. – 84 B.C.) is the oldest ISKNSITL monarch of whom records exist. He was also the first Urantian king. The Urantians were one of a dozen or so family clans competing for power during the second and third centuries B.C. The 111 establishment date marks Clover’s consolidation of these clans under a single ruler, following the infamous “bloodless war,” a brutal game of one-upmanship during which clan leaders attempted to make each other “lose face” and, in turn, power over their families and vassals. “Losing face,” in accordance with age-old Sandwichian custom, could mean anything from failing to get a good laugh from one’s subjects after a solid gag to the dressing of one’s ox in the trappings of an orthodontist.

- - By 111, Clover’s only competition was the strongly-Hellenized prince Potiamian, who maintained iron control over his people through strict rules concerning gerunds, the improper use of which could result in death, or worse. In a face-losing contest, Clover tricked Potiamian into performing unnatural acts with sea bass. This glorious victory sealed Clover’s status as first among unequals and gave him to right to sit at the head of the famed Sandwichian Octagonal Table.

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Democratic Interregnum (46 – 346)

- - The Urantian Dynasty lost power when upon his death King Clover IV ½, “The Lune,” left the Kingdom to his eighty-seven cats. A radical democratic faction fooled the cats into chasing a “pack of mice” out of the castle. On closer inspection, the “mice” turned out to be the idiot Seeber’s torn tassles.

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Volkerwanderung (346)

- - The Barbarian invaders did not bother with the southeastern portions of the Sandwich Islands, primarily because their primitive maps portrayed the “end of Earth” some 3,800 miles northeast of the South Sandwich Islands. Distraught over the Volkerwanderung’s snub, the Second Urantian Dynasty ceded sovereignty for “three hundred and ye odde yeares” to the Everly family of Kensington.

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The Everly Dynasty (346 – 818)

- - The Everlys ruled with an iron fist, yet were loved by the people for bringing stability and for never bothering to leave Kensington to visit their Kingdom.

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The Third and Final Holy Roman Urantian Dynasty and Empire Gift Shop (846 – 1806):

- - The near thousand-year rule of The Third and Final Holy Roman Urantian Dynasty and Empire Gift Shop brought unparalleled stability to the Northwest South Sandwich Islands.

- - The 1734 ascension of King Krabaple “The Disgruntled” to the throne brought a new reign of terror upon the Sandwichians. As a mad expression of his absolute power, King Krabaple insisted upon shooting a peasant a day. Horrified by this idea, his minister of state dressed himself as a peasant and was shot. After a month and the succession of thirty ministers of state, one brilliant minister came up with the idea of filling the King’s gun with blanks and faking death.

- - In 1799, the revolutionary “Augustists” movement, a group of rebel Guards of the Royal Order of Urantian Mall Cops, attempted to overthrow the newly crowned King Moraneti. The movement failed for two reasons: (1) All of ISKNSITL is on holiday the month of August; (2) Urantian Kings do not arm their Mall Cops, primarily to avoid accidental shootings.

- - The end of the Independent Sovereign Kingdom of the Northwest South Sandwich Islands and Tributary Lands came in 1806, when the Holy Roman Empire dissolved. The Kingdom had signed a covenant with the Holy Roman Empire centuries earlier, and upon hearing of the dissolution of the Empire, ceded sovereignty to the Duke of Northumbrage’s mule.

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References

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  1. Martin Saraband, ”The Vikings and ISKNSITL: A Reevaluation,” ISKNSITL Studies, Vol. 44, December 1937, 18-84.
  2. Edgar Riley, ”The Pibckadoperen Inscription and its Implications for Northwest South Sandwichean Studies,” Archeology Today, March, 1978, 867-912.
  3. Raymond Remond, “The Significance of Herring in Sandwichean Culture,” Journal of the South Atlantic Historical Society, February, 1994, 42-55.
  4. William Wright, The Life, Times and Herring of King Clover IV 1/2, Penguin, 1962.
  5. ”The Everly Codicil,” ISKNSITL Studies, Vol. 56, June 1949, 162-167.
  6. Anna Franpa, ”Mad King Krabaple and the Thirty Ministers,” ISKNSITL Studies, Vol. 74, December 1967, 34-82.
  7. Toby Johansen, So Close to Glory: The Augustist Movement, Random House, 1988.

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See Also

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  • Egstikel, Harold, ISKNSITL: The Glory, the Power, the Herring (1932, The Mechanical Press for the Society for the Reinstitution of ISKNSITL)

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  • Gibbon, Brentley, The Rise and Fall of the Second Urantian Dynasty (87 vols., 1844)

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  • Mortley, Mortimer, Bye Bye Love: The Everly Abdication (1948)

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  • ISKNSITL Studies

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  • Proceedings of the Society for the Study of Urantian Monarchy