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

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mongers

#1965
January 21, 2012, 02:46:35 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on January 21, 2012, 02:43:32 PM
The USA? Simply for the irony factor and because I think I recall reading that Castro turned to the Soviet Union only after he'd tried to get into bed with the Americans.

Not that I'm aware of.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#1967
January 21, 2012, 02:54:33 PM Last Edit: January 21, 2012, 03:06:26 PM by mongers
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Ideologue

#1968
January 21, 2012, 03:02:47 PM
India.
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Admiral Yi

#1969
January 21, 2012, 03:05:14 PM
Yugoslavia.

mongers

#1970
January 21, 2012, 03:07:03 PM Last Edit: January 21, 2012, 03:15:02 PM by mongers
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 21, 2012, 03:05:14 PM
Yugoslavia.

Nope and no.

It's not a very good question, so I'll give you the answer- The UK in the form of the Hawker aircraft company, more details here:

http://www.urrib2000.narod.ru/ArticGiron1-e.html

Note the role played by the British technicians and the important role played by the aircraft and especially the supplied rockets during the Bay of Pigs.  :bowler:

One of the surviving gate guards in Cuba:



Open floor.

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Ideologue

#1971
January 21, 2012, 03:09:30 PM
Oh, someone would've guessed the UK eventually.
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Razgovory

#1972
January 21, 2012, 06:43:57 PM
I thought I put an answer up.  Oh well, it wasn't the correct answer.  Mine was Czechoslovakia.
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

Zoupa

#1973
January 21, 2012, 11:39:50 PM
In 1420, Henry V entered Paris as a conqueror.

Who was the next foreign monarch to enter the city as a conqueror?

OttoVonBismarck

#1974
January 21, 2012, 11:41:17 PM
Wilhelm I of Prussia? 

Sheilbh

#1975
January 21, 2012, 11:43:08 PM
Gambetta? :P
Let's bomb Russia!

Zoupa

#1976
January 21, 2012, 11:44:41 PM
No, and NO to Shelf  :glare:

Razgovory

#1977
January 22, 2012, 12:04:48 AM
Czar Alexander?
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

Ideologue

#1978
January 22, 2012, 12:18:54 AM
Napoleon I?
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Zoupa

#1979
January 22, 2012, 12:29:44 AM
Alexander II, tsar of all Russias, 1814.
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