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

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Caliga

#270
August 04, 2009, 01:52:42 PM
Judar Pasha, who conquered the Songhai Empire in the late 16th century, was originally of what ethnicity?
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Maximus

#271
August 04, 2009, 02:39:09 PM
Pashtu

The Brain

#272
August 04, 2009, 02:42:09 PM
Sami.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Malthus

#273
August 04, 2009, 02:45:37 PM
Spanish.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Maximus

#274
August 04, 2009, 02:46:18 PM
Jewish

Caliga

#275
August 04, 2009, 02:52:13 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 04, 2009, 02:45:37 PM
Spanish.
Correct.  A Spaniard captured as a boy and turned into a eunuch. :)
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The Brain

#276
August 04, 2009, 02:52:52 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 04, 2009, 02:52:13 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 04, 2009, 02:45:37 PM
Spanish.
Correct.  A Spaniard captured as a boy and turned into a eunuch. :)

Eunuch isn't an ethnicity.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Malthus

#277
August 04, 2009, 03:28:54 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 04, 2009, 02:52:13 PM
Quote from: Malthus on August 04, 2009, 02:45:37 PM
Spanish.
Correct.  A Spaniard captured as a boy and turned into a eunuch. :)

Okay, this may be a hard one, even for us military history geeks ...

The city of Naples was taken twice in sieges by exactly the same notable strategy: soldiers crept through a broken aqueduct into the city. Allegedly the exact same aqueduct was used on both occasions - some 900 years apart, showing that some learn from history and some don't  ;) .

Who were the successful generals in each case?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Admiral Yi

#278
August 04, 2009, 05:02:16 PM
Garibalidi and Norman dude.

Caliga

#279
August 05, 2009, 06:44:45 AM
hmmm....

case 1: Roger Guiscard d'Hauteville
case 2: Mark Clark
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Viking

#280
August 05, 2009, 07:04:08 AM
I don't think anybody is getting the generals....


1. Lombards
2. French
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.

Caliga

#281
August 05, 2009, 07:09:43 AM
Oh, yikes.  Was the Lombard general Totila?

If it was 900 years after the Lombards, that would be in like the 1500s for the French general.  I'm trying to remember the name of that famous French general who fought the Spanish in Italy around that time.
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Malthus

#282
August 05, 2009, 08:07:13 AM
Heh, as I said, this is a tough one. Should I give more clues?
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Caliga

#283
August 05, 2009, 08:08:22 AM
Yes.
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Malthus

#284
August 05, 2009, 08:11:01 AM
Okay ... the first general of the two was famous for having an overbearing wife who was a reformed "actress".

That should give the game away ...
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius
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