"No nation is older than 250"
"No nation is older than 250"
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There's a restaurant near me that's been in business since 1472.
They went bankrupt in 2023. Weird kind of feel.-
Man, the final owner of the business must have some interesting feelings being the one that drove it into the ground after 550 years.
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They survived the Black Plague and the Spanish Flu, but Covid did them in.
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Didn't realise we're living in 2225 already, damnEdit: math no longer adds up to 2225 ad after op edited year to 1472 ad.
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That would be 753 years ?
2225 - 1472
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Yes, but op edited comment
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My court house and my apartment building are older than America xD
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Some American buildings are older than America xD
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The Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1670 and went bankrupt this year. To think a company that indirectly formed an entirely new culture 300 years ago is now going under is wild to me.
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I think it's a shame. It did some awful things in its early years, and it was mismanaged lately. But, I wish there had been a way to allow it to continue to exist as a business, even if it was just a single store and more museum than business. Who knows, maybe it could have had a renaissance at some point. Now it's just something in the history books as one of the longest-lived companies.
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HBC was effectively a "country" for a good chunk of time as well. It had full autonomous control of the land, it's own 'government', provided public services, policing, and it's own military.
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