// -- set up global variables
var para = new Array()
// -- Available items
para[0] = "The foundations of the great European cathedrals go down as far as forty or fifty feet. In some instances, they form a mass of stone as great as that of the visible building above the ground.
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para[1] = "Dublin\'s O\'Connell Bridge is the only traffic bridge in Europe which is wider than it is long
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para[2] = "To understand Europe, you have to be a genius — or French
Madeleine Albright
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para[3] = "According to a Reader\'s Digest survey, Italy is the country Europeans would most like to live in, and Italian the nationality they would most like to be
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para[4] = "Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression
Otto Vo Bismarck
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para[5] = "More than a decade after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the peaks of the Alps still contain radiation from the world\'s worst nuclear accident
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para[6] = "France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I\'m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp
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para[7] = "Monaco — the world\'s second smallest country — is around half the size of New York City\'s Central Park. It also has the shortest coastline of any sovereign state — approximately 3.5 miles
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para[8] = "X-ray technology has shown there are three different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one
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para[9] = "Moscow boasts the world\'s busiest McDonald\'s, located on Pushkin Square. It was the first Western-owned restaurant to open in the Soviet Union, and now serves more than 20,000 customers a day
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para[10] = "Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honour; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humour, and more wealth than pleasure: where a man would chuse rather to travel than to live; shall find more things to observe than desire; and more persons to esteem than to love
William Temple, Sr
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para[11] = "The Russian State Library (formerly the Lenin Library) is the largest in Europe, with more than 41 million items. Its 19 reading rooms serve 2,000 readers at a time, but only Russian citizens are allowed to borrow books
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para[12] = "The parks of Paris — the Bois de Boulogne, Parc Monceau, Vert Galant, Luxembourg, Tuileries, Buttes-Chaumont and others of varying size and fame — symbolize man\'s humanity to man
Landt Dennis
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para[13] = "In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe
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para[14] = "The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac
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para[15] = "England's Stonehenge is 1,500 years older than Rome's Colosseum
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para[16] = "In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. Throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy\'s bronzed arms
Felix Marti-Ibanez
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para[17] = "The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works of art
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para[18] = "The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo
Mark Twain
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para[19] = "We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm
Marianne Williamson
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para[20] = "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There\'s no looking at a building after seeing Italy
Fanny Burney
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para[21] = "By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show
Samuel Johnson
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para[22] = "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast
Ernest Hemmingway
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para[23] = "Finland has 179,584 islands, more than any other country in the world
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para[24] = "The Netherlands is the lowest country in the world. Approximately 40 percent of its land is below sea level
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para[25] = "The world\'s first beer academy opened in Herk-de-Stad, in the Belgian province of Limburg, in 1999
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para[26] = "Europe boasts the world\'s oldest republic, San Marino, which was founded (by tradition) in the year 301
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para[27] = "The deepest lake in the world is Russia's Lake Baikal, at 5,371ft
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para[28] = "The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6in, depending on the temperature. When it was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as \"the tragic lamppost\" and nearly universally hated it
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para[29] = "The Vatican City may be the world's smallest state, but it is not the smallest sovereign entity under international law. That is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.), which is located in Rome and is the size of two tennis courts. In 2001 it had a recorded population of 80, 20 less than the Vatican
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para[30] = "Since 1949, Denmark\'s LEGO company has produced more than 200,000,000,000 plastic bricks. There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the eight-studed bricks of one color. The name LEGO comes from the Danish, \"LEg GOdt,\" which means \"play well\"
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para[31] = "Since 1949, Denmark\'s LEGO company has produced more than 200,000,000,000 plastic bricks. There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the eight-studed bricks of one color. The name LEGO comes from the Danish, \"LEg GOdt,\" which means \"play well\"
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// -- pick a number, any number ...
var a = Math.round(Math.random() * 31)
if (a){
document.write (para[a])
} else {
document.write (para[12])
}