History Trivia Thread Reducks

[Sheilbh]

My cat is a manx.

Very odd place the Isle of Man.  The tail-less cats are a bit weird.  There's the Fairy Bridges too, where you're meant to greet the fairies as you cross.  According to my nan if you don't they follow you forever

Also the last place in the UK (and I think Europe) to abolish corporal punishment.  My Manx family are still furious that 'human rights' means there's no more birching of shoplifters

[Ideologue]

They should bring that back, really.  The administration of an instructive beating is far less spiritually damaging than imprisonment.

[Sheilbh]

They should bring that back, really.  The administration of an instructive beating is far less spiritually damaging than imprisonment.

Well it was only for petty theft, so I think the other option was community service. 

From what I've been told the other problem was that the Manx also had a tendency to use it on young offenders 

[Maximus]

I don't see that as a problem.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Particularly teens in Catholic schoolgirl uniforms right?

[Solmyr]

My cat is a manx.

Very odd place the Isle of Man.  The tail-less cats are a bit weird.  There's the Fairy Bridges too, where you're meant to greet the fairies as you cross.  According to my nan if you don't they follow you forever

Also the last place in the UK (and I think Europe) to abolish corporal punishment.  My Manx family are still furious that 'human rights' means there's no more birching of shoplifters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX8Dg4nW7lU

[Eddie Teach]

Particularly teens in Catholic schoolgirl uniforms right?

Depends on the teen.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Particularly teens in Catholic schoolgirl uniforms right?

Depends on the teen.

And their gender. 

[Drakken]

Since the floor's open.

How many French Kings directly died from playing real tennis (or jeu de paume), and who were they?

[Ideologue]

Is "real tennis" where you use a peasant as the ball?

[Drakken]

Is "real tennis" where you use a peasant as the ball?

No.

[HisMajestyBOB]

2, both named Louis.

[Drakken]

2, both named Louis.

You'll have to be more precise.

Number is good, though. Two Kings of France died. But only one was a Louis.

[Drakken]

Answer:

- Louis X in 1316, from drinking a very cold drink after an exhausting game of real tennis. He died within days of pneumonia or pleurisy. By this account of his death, Louis X is widely considered the first real tennis player known by name.

- Charles VIII in 1498, after stricking his head on the lintel of a door while playing. He fell in a coma and died a few hours later.

Floor's open.

[Caliga]

Wilf Batty, a Tasmanian farmer, is famous for doing what in 1930?