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

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Razgovory

#180
July 30, 2009, 11:30:31 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 30, 2009, 10:09:12 PM
Pertaining to the book I finished somewhat recently...

What semi-famous French general was given credit  by the Western press for the "Miracle on the Vistula" despite having next to nothing to do with the victory there?

Weygand?  (had to look up how to spell his name right).
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Habbaku

#181
July 31, 2009, 12:13:58 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 30, 2009, 11:30:31 PM
Weygand?  (had to look up how to spell his name right).

Correct.  Poor bastard was actually surprised when he got back to France to a hero's welcome--he had no idea what he'd done right!

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Razgovory

#182
July 31, 2009, 12:34:25 AM
Which high level Bolshevik leader reportedly died of the Spanish Flu?  I saw reportedly cause facts change in Russia.
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

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Habbaku

#183
July 31, 2009, 12:39:48 AM
Bukharin?

Edit : No idea who it was, but it definitely wasn't the B-man--he died in '38.
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.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

HisMajestyBOB

#184
July 31, 2009, 12:55:40 AM
Trotsky. Stalin's personal physicians attempted to treat him, but he died from ice pick-related complications during surgery.

At least, according to the "Newly Revised and Updated Official History of Russia: 5th ed."
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Alatriste

#185
July 31, 2009, 01:02:54 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 31, 2009, 12:34:25 AM
Which high level Bolshevik leader reportedly died of the Spanish Flu?  I saw reportedly cause facts change in Russia.

I've got no idea. but I think the joke was 'In the Soviet Union we know what the future holds; it's the past what changes every day'

Razgovory

#186
July 31, 2009, 02:01:26 AM Last Edit: July 31, 2009, 02:19:22 AM by Razgovory
Hint:  He was a commie.

Interestly he had a brother who also grew up to be an important man for a very different cause.
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

The Larch

#187
July 31, 2009, 03:38:27 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 30, 2009, 06:55:18 PM
I cheated and Googled the answer and am not particularly surprised at it.  Silly Spaniards employed a lot of those buggers.

Yup, we surely liked our Wild Geese and their descendants.  :lol:

Caliga

#188
July 31, 2009, 06:48:37 AM
Sverdlov?
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Grey Fox

#189
July 31, 2009, 07:57:18 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 31, 2009, 06:48:37 AM
Sverdlov?

I don't want to wait all day for a new question so, AFAIC google that's right.
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Caliga

#190
July 31, 2009, 08:03:03 AM
I knew it was either him or Voroshilov... one of the cats that had cities named after them early on.
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Grey Fox

#191
July 31, 2009, 08:16:16 AM
Ask away!
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Caliga

#192
July 31, 2009, 08:35:19 AM
Providence, Rhode Island was abandoned and burned to the ground during what war?
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Maximus

#193
July 31, 2009, 08:43:13 AM
Revolutionary?

Caliga

#194
July 31, 2009, 08:49:52 AM
Nope.
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