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

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Kleves

Quote from: HVC on September 11, 2009, 03:01:10 AM
Keys to a church, can't recall which one.
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. You're up.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

HVC

I suck at thinking up questions, so the floor is open.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Kleves

Alrightly then. Prior to the Crimean War, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia raised tensions with France by refusing to use this salutation when addressing Napoleon III. What was the salutation? Also, bonus points if you can tell me which salutation Nicholas finally did deign to use.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Darth Wagtaros

PDH!

Kleves

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Alatriste


Kleves

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

merithyn

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

HisMajestyBOB

"Hey bro!"

He eventually settled for "'Sup, dawg?"
Three lovely Prada points for HoI2 help

Razgovory

You're really on a Crimean war bend Kleves.
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

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

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.

Kleves

Quote from: merithyn on September 11, 2009, 07:29:34 PM
Brother?
Bingo! The Tsar was upset by the other European monarchs addressing Nappy III as "brother," when he regarded the Emperor as a mere usurper. The Tsar would only go as addressing Napoleon as "my dear friend."
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Admiral Yi

I'll squeeze one in until Meri shows up.

Who was the first socialist elected to the US Congress?

Viking

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 12, 2009, 02:09:16 PM
I'll squeeze one in until Meri shows up.

Who was the first socialist elected to the US Congress?

I thought we did away with the suspension of the Yi Rule?
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.

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Viking on September 12, 2009, 02:35:30 PM
I thought we did away with the suspension of the Yi Rule?
Beeb and Max agitated for it, vox populii did not speak.

Hold a vote if you want to.