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I think the hints are too easy and should not be posted. There. I said it. Might just be me I don't know.
Other than that great job so far Thief. You have added a lot to the countdown and I like it a lot. But I just see the hints as a subtraction.
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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."