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

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Alexandru H.

#495
September 13, 2009, 10:11:01 AM Last Edit: September 13, 2009, 10:15:54 AM by Alexandru H.
The answer is Petru Movila (Moghila), Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and All-Rus' from 1633 until 1646. He was probably the last great Ukrainian figure that expected to see Ukraine as the third realm within the Commonwealth. Wikipedia is, unfortunately, very uninformative about the subject.

His father was Hospodar of Moldavia and Wallachia, his uncle and two cousins were Hospodars of Moldavia, while another cousin was the wife of a polish king. He is considered  the father of Modern Orthodoxy and is considered the man that saved Ukraine from catholicism. As a trivia notion, his "Orthodox Creed" is the third most important profession of faith in Orthodoxy after the Nicene Creed and the "Dogmatik" of St. Ioan Damaskinos.

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Viking, that's Stephen III the Great. Usually placed very high on the "greatest generals list"...

Viking

#496
September 13, 2009, 10:24:52 AM
Quote from: Alexandru H. on September 13, 2009, 10:11:01 AM

Viking, that's Stephen III the Great. Usually placed very high on the "greatest generals list"...

Was he better than Jon Scarecrow (of Icelandic Civil War fame)?
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merithyn

#497
September 13, 2009, 10:28:01 AM Last Edit: September 13, 2009, 10:29:39 AM by merithyn
Sorry. Had friends over all day yesterday.

Name the last Tsar of Bulgaria.
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Alexandru H.

#498
September 13, 2009, 10:36:34 AM
Quote from: merithyn on September 13, 2009, 10:28:01 AM
Sorry. Had friends over all day yesterday.

Name the last Tsar of Bulgaria.

Too easy. Simeon II, also prime-minister of Bulgaria 5 years ago.

Alexandru H.

#499
September 13, 2009, 03:13:34 PM
Question: Who was the most prolific executioner in history?

Eddie Teach

#500
September 13, 2009, 03:26:32 PM
Quote from: Alexandru H. on September 13, 2009, 03:13:34 PM
Question: Who was the most prolific executioner in history?

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Admiral Yi

#501
September 13, 2009, 03:29:20 PM
Do you mean the person doing the actual killing or the one who ordered it done?

Alexandru H.

#502
September 13, 2009, 03:29:48 PM Last Edit: September 13, 2009, 03:31:55 PM by Alexandru H.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 13, 2009, 03:29:20 PM
Do you mean the person doing the actual killing or the one who ordered it done?

Actual killing.

Edit: don't place here people that threw nuclear bombs or closed people in gas chambers.

Habbaku

#503
September 13, 2009, 03:37:05 PM
Jack Ketch.
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Zoupa

#504
September 13, 2009, 03:38:54 PM
Sanson?

Alexandru H.

#505
September 13, 2009, 03:40:32 PM
Nope.

Clue: he killed most of his victimes with a german gun.

Zoupa

#506
September 13, 2009, 03:45:40 PM
I thought you meant state-appointed executionner, as in the dude who delivers the sentences (death) from tribunals.

Alexandru H.

#507
September 13, 2009, 03:48:17 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on September 13, 2009, 03:45:40 PM
I thought you meant state-appointed executionner, as in the dude who delivers the sentences (death) from tribunals.

He was a state-appointed executioner in all but name (since modern times have destroyed the good reputation of the word "executioner").

Maximus

#508
September 13, 2009, 03:57:32 PM
That's a rather ironic usage of the word prolific.

or is it...

The Brain

#509
September 13, 2009, 04:00:05 PM
Is that the Russian guy who shot 30,000 people with a handgun? I may have dreamt it and anyway I don't have a name.
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