The reason American and British English use different spellings for certain words (e.g. color and colour) is because of Noah Webster, who wanted American English to be simpler and easier to understand in his Webster's Dictionary.
The colour orange is named after the fruit, before the word arrived to English it was known as geoluread.
The Roman Emperor Elagabalus is believed by some to have been Transgender, even wanting to be referred to as the wife of her husbands.
Not every country is in the same year, most of the world follows the Gregorian calendar where it is currently 2026, but some countries such as Ethiopia have their own calendar systems, in that case it is 2019.
In what is today parts of Russia and Ukraine, there was a group of Turkic peoples who followed Judaism. They were called the Khazar Khaganate, and were the only nation outside the middle east to have Judaism as a state religion.
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Embassy of Chile, Berlin
Louis Dubreuilh
Jérôme Franssen
François Augustin Regnier de Jarjayes
Juan Martín Caicedo
Marjorie Leet
Ireland, 
Georgia and 
Lithuania.
Ethiopia have their own calendar systems, in that case it is 2019.
People's Republic of China, despite being a one-party state, has eight other legally recognized parties.
Russia and 
Ukraine, there was a group of Turkic peoples who followed Judaism. They were called the 
Khazar Khaganate, and were the only nation outside the middle east to have Judaism as a state religion.
Holy Roman Empire and 
Netherlands, Johan de Witt, was a literally eaten alive by peasants.
Vermont Republic, 
Republic of Texas, 
California Republic and the 
Hawaiian Kingdom.
Kingdom of Siam offered to send elephants to the Union, but Lincoln declined.
Vatican City.
