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

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Ed Anger

#810
October 05, 2009, 07:23:20 AM
Thespiae. I think. A thousand forming the rear guard.
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Agelastus

#811
October 05, 2009, 07:25:56 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 05, 2009, 07:23:20 AM
Thespiae. I think. A thousand forming the rear guard.

Ed's up. Although the usual figure given is 700.

Thespiae spent most of a hundred years having the majority of its adult male population killed in a single battle once a generation. Thermopylae's the most famous of three examples.

Anyway, over to you Ed.
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The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Ed Anger

#812
October 05, 2009, 07:26:49 AM
Up for grabs. My brain is mush this morning.
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Caliga

#813
October 05, 2009, 07:44:41 AM
Two Egyptian brothers discovered the Nag Hammadi codices im 1945.  When their mother found them, what did she try to do with them and why?
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HisMajestyBOB

#814
October 05, 2009, 07:56:07 AM
Tried to burn them, thought they were witchcraft-related, or otherwise evil?
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Caliga

#815
October 05, 2009, 08:04:25 AM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 05, 2009, 07:56:07 AM
Tried to burn them, thought they were witchcraft-related, or otherwise evil?
Easier than I thought it would be.  :blush:  Correct.
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HisMajestyBOB

#816
October 05, 2009, 08:17:43 AM
I vaguely remember reading something about that.
I can't think of anything good: open floor.
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Threviel

#817
October 05, 2009, 08:25:06 AM
I'll take it.

What did Isidor of Seville believed that the old romans used the ram for something weird. What did he believe that their use was?

Caliga

#818
October 05, 2009, 08:27:32 AM
Transporting the emperors around with?
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Threviel

#819
October 05, 2009, 08:40:43 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2009, 08:27:32 AM
Transporting the emperors around with?

No, not that weird. A weird nautical function.

Razgovory

#820
October 05, 2009, 08:41:07 AM
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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

#821
October 05, 2009, 08:50:57 AM
Predicting the wind?
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.

Warspite

#822
October 05, 2009, 08:56:22 AM
Quote from: Threviel on October 05, 2009, 08:40:43 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2009, 08:27:32 AM
Transporting the emperors around with?

No, not that weird. A weird nautical function.

Fathoming?
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

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Viking

#823
October 05, 2009, 09:00:58 AM
Quote from: Warspite on October 05, 2009, 08:56:22 AM
Quote from: Threviel on October 05, 2009, 08:40:43 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 05, 2009, 08:27:32 AM
Transporting the emperors around with?

No, not that weird. A weird nautical function.

Fathoming?

meh, that just results in the possession by the ship of a wet angry ram.
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.

Warspite

#824
October 05, 2009, 09:03:36 AM
Maybe it was used in a bizarre logical game with a wolf and a cabbage.
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

OVO JE SRBIJA
BUDALO, OVO JE POSTA
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