Brunei gained its independence from the United Kingdom on 1 January 1984. Today, Brunei has the second-highest Human Development Index among the Southeast Asia nations, after Singapore, and is classified as a “developed country”. The country is ranked fifth in the world by gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.
For Bullitt: smartass. 
On 07 May 1984, the USSR announced their withdrawal from the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In all, 14 Eastern Bloc countries, including Cuba and East Germany, boycotted the Games; only Romania and Yugoslavia elected to attend. For differing reasons, Albania, Iran, and Libya also boycotted that Summer Olympics.
Only Albania and Iran boycotted both Olympic games in 1980 (Moscow) and 1984.
I represent that remark! 
Ninety percent of that remark is half true.
So I’m only 45% smartass? (if my maths is right) You guys are too kind.
“Percent”, or per centum, means parts per hundred and is denoted by the % sign.
Per mille means parts per thousand and is denoted by the ‰ sign. Per mil, per mill, permil, and permill are also used.
The English word “mile” is ultimately derived from the Latin “mille”, a shortened reference to “mille passus”, a thousand paces.
The 1772 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defined the stone:
STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. A stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds; in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds; in Scotland sixteen pounds.
Eventually, the stone weight was fixed at 14 pounds.
The slug is a unit of mass associated with Imperial units and United States customary units. It is a mass that accelerates by 1 ft/s2 when a force of one pound-force (lbF) is exerted on it.
Slugs may look like snails without shells, but they have a number of significant differences. Slugs have a small “internal shell” that protects their vital organs. Since they cannot defend themselves by retreat into a shell, they can secrete a toxic slime that can repel predators. They can move more quickly than snails and maneuver into tight spaces. Also, unconstrained by shells, they frequently grow larger than snails
SLIME, the Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs, is an Emacs mode for developing Common Lisp applications. SLIME originates in an Emacs mode called SLIM written by Eric Marsden. It is developed as an open-source public domain software project by Luke Gorrie and Helmut Eller. Over 100 Lisp developers have contributed code to SLIME since the project was started in 2003. SLIME uses a backend called Swank that is loaded into Common Lisp.
Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. Only Fortran is older, by one year. Lisp was invented by John McCarthy at M.I.T. in 1958. The first compiler for Fortran (formerly FORTRAN, derived from “Formula Translation”) was delivered in April 1957. Fortran was developed by John Backus at IBM.
Jim Backus played the voice of God in the recording of Truth of Truths, a 1971 rock opera based on the Bible.
Jim Backus was born in Cleveland OH. He went to the same high school as actress Eleanor Parker, and then later he was expelled from the Kentucky Military Institute for riding a horse through the mess hall.
Eleanor of Aquitaine went on Crusade, was Queen of France, divorced the King of France, then married Henry Plantagenet and became Queen of England.
She was Justiciar when Henry was away from England, the first woman to have such a high-ranking role in the English government.
She was mother to two Kings of England, Richard I and John, and through John an ancestor of all subsequent monarchs of England, Great Britain and the U.K.
Popular legend is that she forced Henry’s mistress, Fair Rosamund, to commit suicide by drinking poison.
She died of old age, one tough queen.
In medieval England and Scotland the Chief Justiciar (later known simply as the Justiciar) was roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister as the monarch’s chief minister. A justiciar is an administrator of justice, a chief political and judicial officer. During the Norman period, the highest ranking official was the justiciar. Ranulf Flambard’s many duties have led to him being considered the first Chief Justiciar of England. He lived from roughly 1060 to 1128 A.D.
Ranulf Flambard, chief tax-collector, was imprisoned under King Henry I. He was the Tower of London’s first prisoner and also became its first escapee.
Flambard had made himself unpopular doing King William Rufus’s dirty work, collecting large taxes and becoming very rich. When William died, his brother Henry I accused the Bishop of extortion and sent him to the White Tower in chains.
Flambard used the cover of the feast of Candlemas to make a bold escape. He had a rope smuggled to him in a gallon of wine. He invited his guards to join him for a great banquet. When they were completely drunk and snoring soundly, he seized his chance. He tied the rope to a column which stood in the middle of a window and, holding his Bishop’s staff, he climbed down the rope. At the foot of the tower, his friends had horses ready and he galloped off to safety.
It is claimed that the White Tower of the Tower of London had the first-ever indoor toilets. They were essentially enclosed pits where the effluent drained into the Thames.
London did not require indoor toilets in its building codes until after the First World War.
Thomas Crapper, an innovator in plumbing with many patents, opened the world’s first bath, toilet and sink showroom, in King’s Road, London, in the 1860s. it is often claimed that the word “crap” derives from his name, but it is actually of Middle English origin, meaning waste or rubblsh, and was used in its current sense in the 1840s, when Crapper was a child and well before he became known for his toilets.
The origin of the word “loo” in reference to a toilet is not settled. The “lou” in the title of the song “Skip to My Lou” comes from the word “loo”, a Scottish word for “love.”