What Do Madagascar and the United States Have In Common?

[palani]

http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/memdir/members.aspx#U

Answer is neither has an IMF governor or Alternate. These offices are vacant. Bernanke and Lew are distant memories.

Oddly enough Iceland is well represented.

[General of Darkness]

Madagascar = Where the jews should be
United States = Where the jews unfortunately are

[palani]

The article I pulled this from suggests that the states of the union expect their share of SDRs quarterly and the next payment comes due on June 1. The current situation precludes that payment from being made.

This is expected to come as a surprise to the governments of these states.

[FreeEnergy]

Unfortunately, General is correct in his observation.

[osoab]

Cuba and North Korea are not on the list of IMF countries. Syria and Iran are.

Looks like Syria is still paying back 14 billion to the IMF.

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/PROJECTS/0,,pagePK:64392398~piPK:64392037~theSitePK:40941~c ountrycode:SY~menuPK:64820000,00.html

[StreetsOfGold]

The United States produced a series of movies called Madagascar

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Madagascar+&s=all

[StreetsOfGold]

Israel and the surrounding area inhabited by the Ishmaelites = Where the jews should be
United States = Where the jews unfortunately are

corrected for you

[JohnQPublic]

Madagascar has the coolest baobab trees. I sell baobab fruit (http://www.baobab-fruit.com) and seed oil (from Senegal). Interesting stuff.

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[Glass]

interesting. I see it also a plant in Australia. I looked at it and thought Boab tree. Aussies generally shorten words as much as possible so maybe we dropped a few letters. We use the trees for locking bad guys up in. To me they look like some kind of jurasic frangipanni

[JohnQPublic]

interesting. I see it also a plant in Australia. I looked at it and thought Boab tree. Aussies generally shorten words as much as possible so maybe we dropped a few letters. We use the trees for locking bad guys up in. To me they look like some kind of jurasic frangipanni

The most common is the African baobab- all over Africa. Madagascar has 7 additional variates of baobab, and Australia has one variety in the north: the only naturally occurring baobab outside of Africa.

[Santa]

Madagascar has the coolest baobab trees. I sell baobab fruit (http://www.baobab-fruit.com) and seed oil (from Senegal). Interesting stuff.

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Awesome photograph.

[Serpo]

Just a pity Madagascar got eaten by locusts last week ,,,,,hang on that is something in common,,,,,,instead of locusts though they are called bankers but similar result.

[Norweger]

corrected for you

Greater Israel?

[Glass]

Just thought I'd post this. An adventure photographer riding around Oz. I mentioned him in the Motorcycles thread. He posted this a few days ago. Actually its a very big pic for some reason.

The Boab Tree is only found in Western Australia’s Kimberly region and the Madagascar, and Africa. These are also called bottle trees due to their shape. Many of them are hundreds and even 1500 hundred years old, making them one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. I found this one on the highway yesterday to Halls Creek.

http://thegrandaustralianroadtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BOAB.jpg
It looks like Collin McCormack was there.

Halls creek is a tough part of the world. Between there and Fitzroy crossing. Although there are some amazing natural gems in that part of the world. Geikie gorge for one, and a bit further north to town of Katherine and Katherine gorge. Amazing places to visit.
http://images.smh.com.au/2009/11/02/830666/Geikie-The-Kimberley-420x0.jpg
Geikei gorge

[JohnQPublic]

Most of us recognize the Disney Baobab:

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And of course, the Little Prince and the Baobabs:

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