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

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The Brain

#2311
May 10, 2013, 01:01:23 AM
Danger.
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Viking

#2312
May 10, 2013, 03:36:48 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 09, 2013, 11:31:39 PM
Ulysses

Yes, his given name was

Hiram Ulysses Grant. His name was "changed" when a friend of the family who only knew him as Ulyss or Ulysses Grant arranged to have him go to West Point. He added the extra S.

Stop answering questions if you don't have any yourself.

I insist that you answer a question.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Eddie Teach

#2313
May 10, 2013, 04:41:19 AM
Quote from: Viking on May 10, 2013, 03:36:48 AM
I insist that you answer a question.

Already did!  :P


Ok, the Song of Roland is based upon which battle?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

The Larch

#2314
May 10, 2013, 04:52:04 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 10, 2013, 04:41:19 AM
Quote from: Viking on May 10, 2013, 03:36:48 AM
I insist that you answer a question.

Already did!  :P


Ok, the Song of Roland is based upon which battle?

Roncesvalles?

Syt

#2315
May 10, 2013, 04:52:21 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 10, 2013, 04:41:19 AM
Quote from: Viking on May 10, 2013, 03:36:48 AM
I insist that you answer a question.

Already did!  :P


Ok, the Song of Roland is based upon which battle?

The Battle of Tull.
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Eddie Teach

#2316
May 10, 2013, 05:09:54 AM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

The Larch

#2317
May 10, 2013, 05:21:32 AM
Wooo!

Ok, which was the most bombed place in WWII?

Caliga

#2318
May 10, 2013, 05:29:21 AM
Dresden?
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The Larch

#2319
May 10, 2013, 05:31:47 AM

Caliga

#2320
May 10, 2013, 05:37:24 AM
Do you mean most bombed as in largest number of times?
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Syt

#2321
May 10, 2013, 05:39:07 AM
Malta?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Zanza

#2322
May 10, 2013, 05:40:17 AM
Berlin

The Larch

#2323
May 10, 2013, 05:41:59 AM Last Edit: May 10, 2013, 05:43:31 AM by The Larch
Quote from: Syt on May 10, 2013, 05:39:07 AM
Malta?

Yup. 3.340 air raids were sent against it between June 1940 and November 1942.

Zanza

#2324
May 10, 2013, 05:45:10 AM
Quote from: The Larch on May 10, 2013, 05:41:59 AM
Quote from: Syt on May 10, 2013, 05:39:07 AM
Malta?

Yup. 3.340 air raids were sent against it between June 1940 and November 1942.
I bet the amount of bombs was nowhere near what was dropped on Berlin or Tokyo.
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