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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Caliga

#1170
October 25, 2009, 07:09:20 AM
Empress Carlotta?
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Lettow77

#1171
October 25, 2009, 07:33:17 AM
 An inspired guess, but no.

Edit: to caligula, anyway. You other two are merely wrong  :P
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Syt

#1172
October 26, 2009, 11:56:39 PM
24 hour rule.

In 1982 the biggest killing spree in modern history took place.

A police officer who had a falling out with his girlfriend got drunk and took weapons and grenades from the police armory. He killed the emergency operators to prevent emergency calls to come through, then descended onto the streets and started going from door to door, gaining entrance as police officer to kill the inhabitants.

After 8 hours he killed himself and three hostages with two grenades. The killing spree left 58 dead (including the perp) and 35 wounded.


In which country did the incident take place?
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Eddie Teach

#1173
October 27, 2009, 12:06:51 AM
Japan?
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Syt

#1174
October 27, 2009, 12:11:38 AM
Not Japan.
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HVC

#1175
October 27, 2009, 12:12:01 AM
South Korea.
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HisMajestyBOB

#1176
October 27, 2009, 12:12:04 AM
At first I thought New Zealand, but the circumstances aren't as you described. That one hit ~30, though.

So, Australia?
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Razgovory

#1177
October 27, 2009, 12:13:02 AM
Quote from: HVC on October 27, 2009, 12:12:01 AM
South Korea.

I believe this is correct.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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HisMajestyBOB

#1178
October 27, 2009, 12:19:40 AM
Just looked it up, and he's right, assuming wiki is correct.

Also, I was mixing up:
Port Arthur Massacre
And this Kiwi guy
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Syt

#1179
October 27, 2009, 01:29:15 AM
Yep, South Korea is correct. HVC has the floor. :)
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Lettow77

#1180
October 27, 2009, 05:30:27 AM
 For the record, it was Eliza Lynch, courtesan-turned-mistress of paraguayan ruler solano lopez. She was the woman behind the man, influencing his terrible ideas, until he declared war on uruguay, argentina and brazil at the same time.

It did not work, but he did manage to lose over two thirds of the male population of his country.
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Eddie Teach

#1181
October 27, 2009, 09:01:38 AM
How much was combat deaths and how much emigration?
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Admiral Yi

#1182
October 27, 2009, 09:04:44 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 27, 2009, 09:01:38 AM
How much was combat deaths and how much emigration?
It was a massa-cree.

Lettow77

#1183
October 27, 2009, 03:12:34 PM Last Edit: October 27, 2009, 03:14:18 PM by Lettow77
 Pretty much no emmigration at all. It helps that paraguay is landlocked, and was fighting all but one of it's neighbours. 

Lopez was tilting at windmills- he actually dreamed of conquering South America. The only thing he won paraguay was polygamy-by-necessity in the postwar era, and mass graves.

The example, however, makes me review the South's demographic crisis in the war. Losing one fourth of all white males, roughly along the lines of france's losses in WW1 and Germany's in WW2, seems less inspiring. I had previously assumed that to be the breaking point for civilised peoples at war, but it transpires that the South had more blood to shed on the altar of independence but, to our eternal shame, was unwilling to do so against impossible odds.
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Pat

#1184
October 27, 2009, 03:18:24 PM
The war all-but-over and you've lost. Why sacrifice your life on the altar of independence? For what good?
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