Well i just want to see if most people here are US based, i for one is from Australia (the land of expensive bandwidth)

Why is Canada not on the list?

Theres to many list, just pick other.

I am from Korea although I live in Canada currently.

I would've changed it but the edit feature is only for mods :(

no way, im not going to be categorized under other ;p

That was the main reason of the poll, to find where most of the users are from. Now i know a large percentage come for CA.

:rolleyes:

<wonders if anyone notices a change>

Thanks BC, you saved me from more attacks :)

klisis - you're from korea?
cool! me too! except im living in the states now :)

an young ;)

Which Korea north or south? i prefer North! I have been to North korea several times.

Who voted for middle east???

CANADA RULES!
Im from Ontario!u guys?:D

Originally posted by alpha
klisis - you're from korea?
cool! me too! except im living in the states now :)

an young ;)

heh, glad to see another Korean on WHT. I thought I was alone. :rolleyes:

Yup, I am from Malaysia and our neighbours are Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines.

More from the UK, come on guys, MattF get here now and slap in your vote!

I'm from BC (the province, not the moderator). For the non-Canadians around, we just had an election on Wednesday where we threw out the old government (which until a year ago was lead by someone who is now facing fraud charges) and elected a new government with a record 76 out of 79 seats. While there were several other registered parties, the only other party fielding a full slate of 79 candidates was the Marajuana party, which received somewhere around 3% of the popular vote.

I'm from MARS .. currently visiting your planet to gather intelligence so we can plan a takeover.

So far .. not looking good, unable to find any intelligence at all :rolleyes:


(Portuguese)

Finland.

One word is enough :)

Just wondering.. Is this about where you currently live or ones nationality?

Living in MA - USA .. about to move to FL

Originally posted by zolbian
Just wondering.. Is this about where you currently live or ones nationality?

Yes.

Come on, this is a poll... just pick randomly. It's not as if these things are statistically accurate anyway.

Yes true its where you currently live, everyone has to be so critical~
Originally posted by cperciva


Yes.

Come on, this is a poll... just pick randomly. It's not as if these things are statistically accurate anyway.

One of the few interesting polls, indeed.
Have you already noticed? The two biggest groups are US and Other :)
I voted for "other", too.

Cebu, an island in the Pacific, where it's all sun, sand and sea.

I voted for "others" but in 2 weeks I'll be back in the US so I'll vote once again :D

Thomas

I am from British Columbia too ;p

Hi,

As you can see from the info on the left, Im from Chennai, India.

Im also a past resident of Wilmington-DE, Santa Clara-CA and Piscataway-NJ in the US.

Just wondering why most people dont indicate their location on the sidebar. :confused:


Cheers,

Matra

hehe i thought U.S would beat other :(

Can I vote "I don't know..."

;)

I'm from the US...

Michigan now (born and raised) and in less than a month (approx June 7), I'm going to be moving to Florida.

I'm leaving the cold and leaving to hang out with the rich and famous that live/vacation in Sarasota, FL. :D But I probably wont be among any of the elite there... :bawling:

No you can't :)
Originally posted by ksstudio
Can I vote "I don't know..."

;)

A City between Europe and Asia.

A city that all big empires want.

Of course

Istanbul

hi to all from Turkey

Sorry to you onlyreal, but my Empire did beat the Ottomans!

Long live Saracens!

SALADIN AL NEBYUBI
Originally posted by onlyreal
A City between Europe and Asia.

A city that all big empires want.

Of course

Istanbul

hi to all from Turkey

Originally posted by CRego3D
I'm from MARS .. currently visiting your planet

Is that why your spelling is worse than mine? :D

Well, I am one of the Middle Easterns..

Israel as you can see =)

Originally posted by Hostexp
Sorry to you onlyreal, but my Empire did beat the Ottomans!

Long live Saracens!

SALADIN AL NEBYUBI


sorry but who are these saracens

i am not sure about what you know about ottomons but

you must know

we were the second largest empire in the world.

They are similar to Seljuk Turks, this is about our leader, there isn't much info on the empire.


[Saladin
born 1137/38, Tikrit, Mesopotamia
died March 4, 1193, Damascus


Arabic in full Salah Ad-din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub (“Righteousness of the Faith, Joseph, Son of Job”), also called Al-malik An-nasir Salah Ad-din Yusuf IMuslim sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and the most famous of Muslim heroes. In wars against the Christian crusaders, he achieved final success with the disciplined capture of Jerusalem (Oct. 2, 1187), ending its 88-year occupation by the Franks. The great Christian counterattack of the Third Crusade was then stalemated by his military genius.

Saladin was born into a prominent Kurdish family. On the night of his birth, his father, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, gathered his family and moved to Aleppo, there entering the service of 'Imad ad-Din Zangi ibn Aq Sonqur, the powerful Turkish governor in northern Syria. Growing up in Ba'lbek and Damascus, Saladin was apparently an undistinguished youth, with a greater taste for religious studies than military training.

His formal career began when he joined the staff of his uncle Asad ad-Din Shirkuh, an important military commander under the emir Nureddin, who was the son and successor of Zangi. During three military expeditions led by Shirkuh into Egypt to prevent its falling to the Latin-Christian (Frankish) rulers of the states established by the First Crusade, a complex, three-way struggle developed between Amalric I, the Latin king of Jerusalem; Shawar, the powerful vizier of the Egyptian Fatimid caliph; and Shirkuh. After Shirkuh's death and after ordering Shawar's assassination, Saladin, in 1169 at the age of 31, was appointed both commander of the Syrian troops in Egypt and vizier of the Fatimid caliphate there. His relatively quick rise to power must be attributed not only to the clannish nepotism of his Kurdish family but also to his own emerging talents. As vizier of Egypt, he received the title king (malik), although he was generally known as the sultan.

Saladin's position was further enhanced when, in 1171, he abolished the weak and unpopular Shi'ite Fatimid caliphate, proclaimed a return to Sunni Islam in Egypt, and became that country's sole ruler. Although he remained for a time theoretically a vassal of Nureddin, that relationship ended with the Syrian emir's death in 1174. Using his rich agricultural possessions in Egypt as a financial base, Saladin soon moved into Syria with a small but strictly disciplined army to claim the regency on behalf of the young son of his former suzerain. Soon, however, he abandoned this claim, and from 1174 until 1186 he zealously pursued a goal of uniting, under his own standard, all the Muslim territories of Syria, northern Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Egypt. This he accomplished by skillful diplomacy backed when necessary by the swift and resolute use of military force. Gradually, his reputation grew as a generous and virtuous but firm ruler, devoid of pretense, licentiousness, and cruelty. In contrast to the bitter dissension and intense rivalry that had up to then hampered the Muslims in their resistance to the crusaders, Saladin's singleness of purpose induced them to rearm both physically and spiritually.

Saladin's every act was inspired by an intense and unwavering devotion to the idea of jihad, or holy war—the Muslim equivalent of the Christian crusade. It was an essential part of his policy to encourage the growth and spread of Muslim religious institutions. He courted its scholars and preachers, founded colleges and mosques for their use, and commissioned them to write edifying works, especially on the jihad itself. Through moral regeneration, which was a genuine part of his own way of life, he tried to re-create in his own realm some of the same zeal and enthusiasm that had proved so valuable to the first generations of Muslims when, five centuries before, they had conquered half the known world.

Saladin also succeeded in turning the military balance of power in his favour—more by uniting and disciplining a great number of unruly forces than by employing new or improved military techniques. When at last, in 1187, he was able to throw his full strength into the struggle with the Latin crusader kingdoms, his armies were their equals. On July 4, 1187, aided by his own military good sense and by a phenomenal lack of it on the part of his enemy, Saladin trapped and destroyed in one blow an exhausted and thirst-crazed army of crusaders at Hattin, near Tiberias in northern Palestine. So great were the losses in the ranks of the crusaders in this one battle that the Muslims were quickly able to overrun nearly the entire Kingdom of Jerusalem. Acre, Toron, Beirut, Sidon, Nazareth, Caesarea, Nabulus, Jaffa (Yafo), and Ascalon (Ashqelon) fell within three months. But Saladin's crowning achievement and the most disastrous blow to the whole crusading movement came on Oct. 2, 1187, when Jerusalem, holy to both Muslim and Christian alike, surrendered to Saladin's army after 88 years in the hands of the Franks. In stark contrast to the city's conquest by the Christians, when blood flowed freely during the barbaric slaughter of its inhabitants, the Muslim reconquest was marked by the civilized and courteous behaviour of Saladin and his troops.

His sudden success, which in 1189 saw the crusaders reduced to the occupation of only three cities, was, however, marred by his failure to capture Tyre, an almost impregnable coastal fortress to which the scattered Christian survivors of the recent battles flocked. It was to be the rallying point of the Latin counterattack. Most probably, Saladin did not anticipate the European reaction to his capture of Jerusalem, an event that deeply shocked the West and to which it responded with a new call for a crusade. In addition to many great nobles and famous knights, this crusade, the third, brought the kings of three countries into the struggle. The magnitude of the Christian effort and the lasting impression it made on contemporaries gave the name of Saladin, as their gallant and chivalrous enemy, an added lustre that his military victories alone could never confer on him.

The Crusade itself was long and exhausting, and, despite the obvious, though at times impulsive, military genius of Richard I the Lion-Heart, it achieved almost nothing. Therein lies the greatest—but often unrecognized—achievement of Saladin. With tired and unwilling feudal levies, committed to fight only a limited season each year, his indomitable will enabled him to fight the greatest champions of Christendom to a draw. The crusaders retained little more than a precarious foothold on the Levantine coast, and when King Richard left the Middle East in October 1192, the battle was over. Saladin withdrew to his capital at Damascus.

Soon, the long campaigning seasons and the endless hours in the saddle caught up with him, and he died. While his relatives were already scrambling for pieces of the empire, his friends found that the most powerful and most generous ruler in the Muslim world had not left enough money to pay for his grave. Saladin's family continued to rule over Egypt and neighbouring lands as the Ayyubid dynasty, which succumbed to the Mamluks in 1250.



Originally posted by onlyreal


sorry but who are these saracens

i am not sure about what you know about ottomons but

you must know

we were the second largest empire in the world.

hey guy i remember
he is seladdin eyyübi(in turkish)

hey we won the war against you

borders of ottoman empires in south was in saudi arabia

You did win a few but we pushed you back to turkey!!
Originally posted by onlyreal
hey guy i remember
he is seladdin eyyübi(in turkish)

hey we won the war against you

borders of ottoman empires in south was in saudi arabia

I am from the planet Vulcun. I come in peace (shoot to kill). Currently I reside in Australia.

Originally posted by matra
Hi,

As you can see from the info on the left, Im from Chennai, India.

Im also a past resident of Wilmington-DE, Santa Clara-CA and Piscataway-NJ in the US.

Just wondering why most people dont indicate their location on the sidebar. :confused:


Cheers,

Matra

Hey Matra,
I am also from Chennai. I studied here for the past 6 yrs and will be around here for a few more months until I start my higher studies.

Nice to know that you are from Chennai too.

Wing.

Originally posted by Hostexp
You did win a few but we pushed you back to turkey!!


could you give me a time when you pushed back us to Turkey

Africa?

Are you referring to it as a country or land?

Continent, their was to many to list so i had to put some continents. Even though i wrote which "country". To lazy :(
Originally posted by Dylan
Africa?

Are you referring to it as a country or land?

Originally posted by ksstudio
Can I vote "I don't know..."


Glad to know you are Malaysian! Any others here???
:)

Off Topic:
Hey ksstudio(Chan) Penang is a great place up north, I lived at Ayer Hitam a few years back, now I am in Kuala Lumpur try to make a living, so wish me luck trying to compete with these high living and crazy KL people.

Regards,
cactus(Ng)

Patagonia Argentina
I think that I'm the only one here :)
Regards

England .... blah