If by next week Mayor Ken is organising his red-green alliance in the independent republic of London, Britain's political establishment will have its own lack of imagination to blame.
This was the beginning of the process that led to the creation of the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black republic of the world.
In 1961, Syria seceded from the United Arab Republic and formed the independent Syrian Arab Republic.
Its moment of glory came in 1804, when its former slaves founded the first independent black republic.
In 1976, the Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth after 160 years of British rule.
The Irish Independent's headline sums up the republic's fears of infection, fuelled not least by the close proximity of the United Kingdom.
It is doubtful whether his movement has the organisation or indeed the support to achieve his dream of an independent republic of Mombasa, stretching the length of Kenya's coastline.
This is a significant date as it recalls an uprising of enslaved Africans on the island of Saint Domingue in 1791, resulting in the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black independent state in the Western World.
Obama, one more Republican president could literally spell the end of America as an independent republic and democracy.
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The party advocated, as its main policies, proportional representation, abolition of the monarchy and an end to the Union through the creation of an independent, Scottish republic.
In 1821, Panama declared itself independent of Spain and joined the Republic of Colombia.
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said this week, describing anti-government forces.
Mr Nixon said he needed the gun for protection from people who want an independent Republic of Texas.
That is exactly the status which Iceland obtained in 1917 before becoming a fully independent republic a quarter-century later.
Rather, Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 and after nine years as an independent nation, we Texans prefer to say that the Republic of Texas and the United States of America merged.
Bashkortostan and its sister republic, Tatarstan, are two of the more important and independent-minded autonomous republics in Russia.
They fought, and many died, for an independent Kurdistan, a place that just happens to sit on territory currently in the possession of the Republic of Turkey.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran and North Korea have common enemies since the arrogant powers can't bear independent governments, " Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Mr. Kim during his stay, according to the official FARS news agency.
For two centuries, Georgia struggled to maintain its identity under czarist and then Soviet rule, and since becoming independent 13 years ago, Georgia has pursued perhaps the most pro-American foreign policy of any former Soviet republic, both under former President Eduard Shevardnadze and the new young leader who toppled him in the Rose Revolution of 2003, 37-year-old Mikhail Sakashvili.
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