History Trivia Thread Reducks

[Caliga]

Is it boob related?

No.

I knew this was obscure but I figured someone would guess it eventually.  If nobody has it by tonight I'll give the answer and cede control of the floor.

[jimmy olsen]

Is it boob related?

No.

I knew this was obscure but I figured someone would guess it eventually.  If nobody has it by tonight I'll give the answer and cede control of the floor.

They still shrink heads?

[Admiral Yi]

Are these the folks who raise pigs with tusks growing through their jaws?

[Alexandru H.]

Nope.  Good guess, though.

Do they make jewellery?

[The Brain]

If they still have the skill how the fuck is it history?

L2T

By virture of still having this skill, the islanders are collectively a living relic, so to speak.

They can name all 50 states?

[Malthus]

If they still have the skill how the fuck is it history?

L2T

By virture of still having this skill, the islanders are collectively a living relic, so to speak.

Hmmm.

Traditional style boat-making?

[The Brain]

Riding to work on dinosaurs?

[Agelastus]

Hey, the answer to Caliga's question really is rather cool. Somebody's on the right lines, but I won't say who...



Yes, I again got impatient and looked it up.

[Admiral Yi]

Navigate by sticking their hands in the sea?

[Caliga]

Navigate by sticking their hands in the sea?

I think I'm going to give you credit for getting it (Malthus was close too).

The island, despite being in Melanesia, is a Polynesian outlier, and the inhabitants are the only Polynesians who still know how to navigate via traditional Polynesian methods, which do involve things like feeling the water, smelling the air, and other less 'mystical' practices like bird and cloud observation and so forth.  In the past few decades there has been a revival in interest in their techniques and Polynesians from elsewhere have traveled to the island to learn from the 'masters'.

[Admiral Yi]

You *think* you'll give it to me?  I'll nailed it motherfucker.

No tengo pregunta.  El piso esta abierto.

[DisturbedPervert]

They practice penile subincision, so as to have sex and ejaculate from the base of the penis, outside the vagina?



(as practiced by many primitive societies to avoid malthusian population pressure)

I think it'd be easier to just pull out than to cut a hole in my wiener

[HVC]

They practice penile subincision, so as to have sex and ejaculate from the base of the penis, outside the vagina?

(as practiced by many primitive societies to avoid malthusian population pressure)

I think it'd be easier to just pull out than to cut a hole in my wiener

You won't know til you try it

[Kleves]

The Duke of Wellington famously called this man the "greatest living soldier." Who was Wellington speaking of?

[Zoupa]

The Duke of Wellington famously called this man the "greatest living soldier." Who was Wellington speaking of?

Bonaparte?