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What is world’s oldest corporation?

On 10 January 2018

According to Wikipedia List of oldest corporations, the world’s oldest corporation is: 578 (year) Kongō Gumi, in Japan, in Construction business.

The Wikipedia page for that business adds:

Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company which was the world’s oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.[1][2]

The Bubble Act

By Tim B.

On 10 January 2018

In History, Reference

The Bubble Act 1720 (6 Geo I, c 18), which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse.

From South Sea Company Wikipedia article.

Pantarctica, Pre-Empire

By Tim B.

On 31 December 2017

In Event, Fiction, Future, Governance, History, Map

Decades after the Time of Great Changes, the World is settling into a new type of dynamic stability after an unprecedented period of chaos and destruction.

A strong southern central Pantarctica is rapidly expanding and consolidating its Empire on both Atlantica and Quatria. New Boston is for the moment powerless to stop them, and Lisbon does not want to get involved.

Guess Who (Board Game) Ad

By Tim B.

On 12 December 2017

In History, Item, Pattern, Reference

Youtube, 1997:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZLVrhXfkc

Includes disclaimer at the end, “Game cards do not actually talk.”

Timecalling

By Tim B.

On 13 November 2017

In Conjecture, Control, Definition, Fiction, History, News, Received, Reference, Word

Timecalling started as a Early Methodian Ritual (EMR) wherein a participant would verbally disclaim aloud the date and time of the present moment.

The action was performed with the belief that an eventual omnipotent-in-relation-to-time-direction agency would evolve with the power to detect subtle signals retroactively and interlink them into a permalinked network accessible by timecraft and open to packet traffic, thereby essentially enabling practitioners to timeflash when the event horizon Singularity collapsed, and potentially “live forever.”

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The Order of Chronos was a radical unaffiliated achronal Timecaller offshoot which developed and then implemented in ritual Prealist and Wobbler botnets both Chronist and Anti-Chronist propaganda #codechant Event Ladders during the Middle Period of the Shape Wars.