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

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Agelastus

#1065
October 17, 2009, 05:09:38 AM
Quote from: ulmont on October 16, 2009, 09:34:51 PM
Yes, Mendeleev the periodic table guy, although others giving hints should be verboten.

Only because they were moaning that you had logged off.

[Well, one of them was...]
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Caliga

#1066
October 17, 2009, 05:52:27 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 16, 2009, 09:52:05 PM
King Arthur was believed to have been killed in this sixth century battle?
Camlann?
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Razgovory

#1067
October 17, 2009, 06:20:18 AM
Mount Baden?
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

Agelastus

#1068
October 17, 2009, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 16, 2009, 09:52:05 PM
King Arthur was believed to have been killed in this sixth century battle?

I believe the quote for the year 537 in Gildas to be roughly "the field of Camlann, where Arthur and Medraut fell".

So presumably Caliga is correct.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Caliga

#1069
October 17, 2009, 07:26:16 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 17, 2009, 06:27:01 PM
I believe the quote for the year 537 in Gildas to be roughly "the field of Camlann, where Arthur and Medraut fell".

So presumably Caliga is correct.
Yep, I am. -_-

Marco Polo described what island as being populated by Christians ruled over by an archbishop, who was himself subject to an archbishop living in Baghdad?
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Agelastus

#1070
October 17, 2009, 07:28:25 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 17, 2009, 07:26:16 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on October 17, 2009, 06:27:01 PM
I believe the quote for the year 537 in Gildas to be roughly "the field of Camlann, where Arthur and Medraut fell".

So presumably Caliga is correct.
Yep, I am. -_-

Marco Polo described what island as being populated by Christians ruled over by an archbishop, who was himself subject to an archbishop living in Baghdad?

Ceylon?
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Caliga

#1071
October 17, 2009, 07:33:55 PM
Nope.
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Agelastus

#1072
October 17, 2009, 07:37:02 PM
It would only really make sense if the island was relatively easily accessible from the Persian Gulf...but this is Marco Polo, after all, and I don't recall the route of his travels going far enough south to encompass the Indian Ocean...

Serious answer, Bahrain?

Silly answer, Japan?
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Habbaku

#1073
October 17, 2009, 07:38:58 PM
Japan's not an island, really, but a set of them.  That would be my wild guess, as well, though.

My own, serious guess is Cyprus.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Razgovory

#1074
October 17, 2009, 07:41:09 PM
The seychelles.
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

PDH

#1075
October 17, 2009, 07:42:42 PM
Been a while, probably Madagascar.

That, or Fire.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Razgovory

#1076
October 17, 2009, 07:43:01 PM
Oops.  I meant Socotra.  I always get those confused.
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

Agelastus

#1077
October 17, 2009, 07:43:38 PM
Actually, it could be Formosa/Taiwan. It wasn't directly ruled by China at the time of Marco Polo, I think, and is a better choice for Marco Polo to be misinformed on than Japan. As Habbaku rightly pointed out, it is an archipelago, and the Chinese court would surely have known this at the time.
"Come grow old with me
The Best is yet to be
The last of life for which the first was made."

Caliga

#1078
October 17, 2009, 07:52:40 PM
No to all.  Raz's guess is the closest so far, in terms of location (I think).

edit: Actually sorry, didn't see his second post.  Socotra is correct.
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Razgovory

#1079
October 17, 2009, 08:05:30 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 17, 2009, 07:52:40 PM
No to all.  Raz's guess is the closest so far, in terms of location (I think).

edit: Actually sorry, didn't see his second post.  Socotra is correct.

I don't want to think of a question.  Floors open.
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
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