HISTORY-OF-NAURU APPRECIATION WEEKWe’ve just reached a whopping 900K subscribers, and to celebrate, we’ll be doing something just a little different with this week’s contest. After seeing that we had reached such an astonishing milestone, I decided to take a look at Wikipedia’s list of countries by population to see how many countries and dependencies we’ve grown larger than.There, I stumbled upon an extremely obscure country in Micronesia named Nauru (Now-roo). It has the third smallest population of any country (“behind” Vatican City and neighbouring Tuvalu) and the third least amount of territory of any country (yet again “behind” Vatican City, as well as Monaco). You probably haven’t heard of Nauru, and you’re not at fault.But this tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific has so, so much more to offer, because it just so happens to have one of the most fascinating, yet obscure histories I’ve ever encountered.This tiny community has just as distinctive a character as ours, an-d it deserves to be known! Since we all love history, I figured y’all might appreciate the opportunity to learn (or meme) a thing or two about some of the most neglected history out there.So henceforth, this week will be HISTORY-OF-NAURU APPRECIATION WEEK! This won’t just be another average weekly contest, and it won’t just involve one person winning!That’s because there’s going to be two components to this week’s contest:Fact Scavenger Hunt: If you correctly answer the following ten questions, you’ll win a custom flair and a Discord role! Post your answers as images with the flair “Scavenger Hunt Entry”. A word of advice – don’t expect to rely solely on Nauru’s Wikipedia page, although all of these facts are somehow linked to that page1. How long have Nauruans inhabited Nauru?2. What does the star on Nauru’s flag represent?3. What date marks the first time a European set foot on Nauru?4. Give a two-sentence long summary of how the Nauruan Tribal War of 1878 – 1888 began5. Exactly how many firearms were confiscated from the Nauruans by the German occupiers on October 3rd of 1888?6. In which two, separate, years has an intergovernmental authority allowed Britain, Australia and New Zealand to become co-trustees of Nauru?7.Three ships had been sent by the Nazis to attack Nauru, but only the heavily armed commerce raider Komet actually managed to do so. What were the two other ships’ names, and where did they go after leaving the Komet?8.Which ship carried how many survivors of Japanese occupation back to Nauru after having been deported to the Chuuk Islands?9. Nauru first became independent on what day in 1968?10. At its peak, Nauru’s GDP Per Capita was second only to which nation?Component #2 of HISTORY-OF-NAURU APPRECIATION WEEK involves posting a certain amount of memes on Nauru, and by that I mean six memes to raise awareness of Nauruan history. If you’re up to the challenge, that is. Also, please flair each one of your memes as “Nauru Appreciation Week Meme” and please post each meme at least an hour apart from one another. You will also win a custom flair and Discord role.To help you out a bit, here are five meme-able facts on Nauru:1. Ancient Nauruans wore helmets made of pufferfish (there’s an interesting image of exactly that Nauru’s Wikipedia page)2. They also used frigate birds to fish3. In 1899, a large rock from Nauru that was being used as a doorstop in the Sydney offices of John T Arundel and Co. (which was involved in trading phosphates) was found to be rich in phosphates. This kicked off Nauru’s phosphate trade, so it might just be that this doorstop is the most important doorstop in history.4.From around 1830, European deserters began living on the island. This includes an Irish convict named John Jones, who killed or banished other such deserters and has become known as “Nauru’s first and last dictator”. He was banished himself, by the Nauruans, in 1841.5One of Nauru’s failed investments was a terrible West End play named “Leonard the Musical: A Portrait of Love” in 1993In case you’d like to learn more about Nauru without reading, which is for nerds, I recommend taking a quick look at the following YouTube videos:Geography Now’s excellent overview of Nauru:Half as Interesting’s video on Nauru, which elaborates on the failed West End play:A person actually recording their brief stay in the world’s least visited country:Note: Nauru is not without controversy, however. Nauru operates a facility which holds people seeking asylum in Australia, and it’s been accused of human right’s violations. Please note that this falls within our twenty year exclusion period, and as such is considered current events, not history. Your submission will be removed and you’ll be disqualified from the competition if you violate this twenty year exclusion period. via /r/HistoryMemes https://ift.tt/2OpXUfj
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