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

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Viking

#2205
December 31, 2012, 06:12:54 PM
Quote from: mongers on December 31, 2012, 05:56:49 PM
Quote from: Viking on December 31, 2012, 02:43:47 PM
You're getting closer, I'll give the floor to the one who can say why the royalists sat on the right rather than on the left; which they did for a specific reason.

Is it supporting the sword wielding hand ?

That is sooo close I'm gonna give it.

The Royalists sat on the right of the king because that was the position of honor. This is where we get the phrase "right hand man" as well. To the best of my knowledge this is due to one of two reasons, either it has to do with the left hand being used for wiping ones arse or it has to do with hoplite warfare.

With the hoplon/aspis not being held, but rather bound to the wielder's arm the shield only covered half the body, the other half being covered by the man to your right. This meant that hoplite formations tended to drift left AND the man on the far right didn't have anybody to on his right covering half his body. So the place on the far right at the front became the place for your best warriors and subsequently the place of greatest prestige since you were not only facing more enemies (since the formation was drifting left) but you were also only half covered by a shield.

Despite using a center grip scutum which covered all the bearer the romans still put officers on the right as well as iirc the first cohort. This is then taken up by the barbarians and thus becomes feudal tradition in the middle ages despite the position on the far right not having any real significance anymore.

So royal toadies always seek to sit as close to the king as possible on the right.
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mongers

#2206
December 31, 2012, 07:08:47 PM
Open floor, I have no trivia. 
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chipwich

#2207
January 01, 2013, 10:01:30 AM
Wackjob Jacobins were seated on the Left side of the room, conservative dudes on the Right.

Drakken

#2208
January 18, 2013, 08:21:19 AM
Trivia question :

Who is the oldest President of the United States to have living grandchildren, as of today?

sbr

#2209
January 18, 2013, 08:55:21 AM
H W Bush? #lowhangingfruit

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#2210
January 18, 2013, 09:04:13 AM
You're way off. I googled it.
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#2211
January 18, 2013, 09:07:58 AM
Wow, the answer will blow your mind! :o
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#2212
January 18, 2013, 09:15:58 AM
Quote from: Drakken on January 18, 2013, 08:21:19 AM
Trivia question :

Who is the oldest President of the United States to have living grandchildren, as of today?

I'm thinking Roosevelt.
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PDH

#2213
January 18, 2013, 09:31:55 AM
Saw this on the news a few months back - isn't it someone like Tyler?
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Malthus

#2214
January 18, 2013, 10:07:15 AM
I have no real idea but I'm going with honest Abe. Just because it would be dammned impressive.  :D
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garbon

#2215
January 18, 2013, 10:16:21 AM
Quote from: PDH on January 18, 2013, 09:31:55 AM
Saw this on the news a few months back - isn't it someone like Tyler?

I think it was something like this too.
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#2216
January 18, 2013, 10:18:35 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 18, 2013, 09:07:58 AM
Wow, the answer will blow your mind! :o

It's a little humbling in a way, to think of only three generations of a family seeing all they have.

Yes, I had to google it too.
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#2217
January 18, 2013, 10:34:00 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on January 18, 2013, 10:18:35 AM
It's a little humbling in a way, to think of only three generations of a family seeing all they have.

Yeah. "When my granddad was born George Washington was president and Louis XVI was still King of France".  :wacko:

Drakken

#2218
January 18, 2013, 11:49:57 AM Last Edit: January 18, 2013, 11:56:56 AM by Drakken
Quote from: Malthus on January 18, 2013, 10:07:15 AM
I have no real idea but I'm going with honest Abe. Just because it would be dammned impressive.  :D

Abe has had no more living descendant for a long while. Lincoln and Buchanan are the only two Presidents to have no living descendant.

PDH got it. It was indeed John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, and he died in 1862.

PDH

#2219
January 21, 2013, 08:31:36 PM
Anyone else can have the question.

By the way, my grandfather was born in 1897 - and I thought that was rather old.
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