Submitted by triviafrenzy t3_10z80ds in todayilearned
And then they spent most of their nation’s wealth on a West End musical about Leonardo Da Vinci falling in love with the Mona Lisa, but he’s actually gay and it is one of the biggest bombs in theater history.
For those who learned something else today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_the_Musical:_A_Portrait_of_Love
While the rest is true, "most of the nations wealth" is an insane exaggeration, 2 million quid doesn't even come close to the wealth generated by the mining boom. During which Naru as one of the wealthiest nations on earth. Source
I'm having trouble finding a place on that page where it says Nauru was one of the wealthiest nations on earth, do you have a quote?
Sure! The first line in the "economic performance" section states:
"In the years after independence in 1968, Nauru possessed the highest GDP per capita in the world due to its rich phosphate deposits."
That says GDP per capita, right? That's insanely different from being one of the wealthiest nations if your population is pretty low.
As a hypothetical with made up numbers, if your GDP is only ten million dollars, you'd be one of the poorest nations in the world, but if you've also only got ten people, then your GDP per capita would actually be the highest.
Good bot
Nauru became self-governing in January 1966, and following a two-year constitutional convention, it became independent on 31 January 1968 under founding president Hammer DeRoburt.[64] In 1967, the people of Nauru purchased the assets of the British Phosphate Commissioners, and in June 1970 control passed to the locally-owned Nauru Phosphate Corporation (NPC).[37] Income from the mines made Nauruans among the richest people in the world.[65][66] In 1989, Nauru took legal action against Australia in the International Court of Justice over Australia's administration of the island, in particular, Australia's failure to remedy the environmental damage caused by phosphate mining. Certain Phosphate Lands: Nauru v. Australia led to an out-of-court settlement to rehabilitate the mined-out areas of Nauru.[53][67]
Citizens being among the richest in the world does not make a country "One of the wealthiest in the world" when their population is incredibly small.
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That says richest people, but that doesn't say the country as the whole was one of the wealthiest - and given everything I've been reading about their low population I have a hard time imagining the nation itself had a comparable economy to major nations in the late 1960s.
There should make that one of the great works of art in CIV 6
Well, what could you expect with Bea Arthur and Jack Klugman headlining. They say their premier performances killed. Yes they did, they murdered legitimate theatre that night!
The Wikipedia article says "The cast included Paul Collis, Jane Arden, James Barron, Hal Fowler and Rebecca Pearce." I'm a little curious about where you got the idea Bea Arthur and Jack Klugman were in it?
They’re my go to performers for way off off broadway
5,570 kms away is certainly "off off Broadway"
You haven’t seen the production. It was just off off off.
Zing I gots a million of them!
Better in Broadway than Sandford, Gloucester. Theyll take your head off for crappy theater performances!
That’s probably why Sweeny Todd with Ruth Buzzy and Brian Dennehy opened and closed the same night. Heads rolled that night.
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