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- 9/1/2002 11:14:23 AM   
JediMessiah

 

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Status: offline 		what is your name?

what is your quest?

what is your favorite color?

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- 9/1/2002 12:02:01 PM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by JediMessiah
[B]what is your name?

what is your quest?

what is your favorite color? [/B][/QUOTE]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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- 9/1/2002 12:29:34 PM   
Voriax

 

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[B]The British government skotched a plan by Military Intelligence to assassinate Hitler. Why?


troopie [/B][/QUOTE]

Hello

They feared that Hitler would be seen as a martyr. They planned to use anthrax in this assasination, btw.

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- 9/1/2002 12:31:40 PM   
Voriax

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by troopie
[B]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

troopie [/B][/QUOTE]

African or European?

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- 9/1/2002 12:46:14 PM   
tracer


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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by rlc27
[B]A+ to Willy and Voriax, for Brumbaer and Goliate, respectively!

Now for a hint on part III, which British AFV was named after a famous warrior, here's a hint: he was prominent during the interminable war with France, and the first part of his nickname is a color (or lack thereof).
[/B][/QUOTE]

Without the hint, I would have said Achilles.

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- 9/1/2002 8:02:32 PM   
Ivan

 

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- 9/1/2002 8:54:35 PM   
tracer


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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ivan
[B]haha achilles :D [/B][/QUOTE]

What's so funny? Achilles was a famous warrior [I]and[/I] a British AFV :confused:

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- 9/1/2002 11:22:43 PM   
rlc27

 

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Status: offline 		True, true. Good point. However I did state in the original question that this was an "experimental" AFV. :p

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- 9/1/2002 11:52:14 PM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Voriax
[B]

Hello

They feared that Hitler would be seen as a martyr. They planned to use anthrax in this assasination, btw.

Voriax [/B][/QUOTE]

Correct! The answer often given, "Because, it's not sporting." was answered with "Hitler is a uniformed member of the German Army. He is a legitimate target."

What about the second question?

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- 9/2/2002 12:25:42 AM   
Voriax

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by troopie
[B]

What about the second question?

troopie [/B][/QUOTE]

Ouch :)

Tough one. 'Central Government Fighting Group, KP'?

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- 9/2/2002 3:35:40 AM   
troopie

 

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[B]

Ouch :)

Tough one. 'Central Government Fighting Group, KP'?

Voriax [/B][/QUOTE]
Close.

Landelyke Knockplegen or "Strong Arm boys" the Resistance's enforcement arm. Except for their lack of heavy weapons, they were armed as an infantry battalion. They were ready to seize key points in Arnhem, but the orders never came.

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- 9/2/2002 3:50:29 AM   
Ivan

 

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Status: offline 		no no no, i misunderstood, i thought you thought that achilles was a british hero :DDD

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JMHO - 9/2/2002 7:21:36 AM   
Noodleboy

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by AbsntMndedProf
[B]NaKATPase posted:

"Wouldn't this be the UK? Seeing as the war caused her to lose her whole empire?"

It's likely that the UK would have lost her empire eventually. Various nationalist movements were sprining up in places like India prior to WW II. This, combined with the fact that the empire was beginning to cost the UK more than she could get out of it, would probably have led to its fall. The war just sped up the process. JMHO from what I've read.

Eric Maietta [/B][/QUOTE]

Unlikely, the Oriental independence movements were fuelled by the stunning speed of Japanese successes through the area. In particular, the hub of the Empire in the Far East, Malaya saw that GB just couldn't be relied upon to protect her.

India would have gained independence maybe ten or twenty years later (certainly not in Gandhi's lifetime -too much baggage).

The main problem is that with the huge loans from the US, we had to open up the Commonwealth markets to repay (we only finished re-paying the US Federal Reserve last year!) the debt.

The African colonies probably wouldn't have gotten as inspired as much about independence without the propagation of American values.

This led to a huge increase in US economic power all over the world. What America gained post-war (apart from in S America) is in direct proportion to what GB lost.


I imagine the UK will still be counting the cost of the loss of Pax Brittanica for a while.

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- 9/3/2002 8:27:24 AM   
rlc27

 

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Status: offline 		HA HA Ivan, I almost HEELED over when I read your response!!

:D :D :D

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- 9/3/2002 11:26:45 AM   
Ivan

 

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Status: offline 		its an honest mistake :D
seriously tho, some americans are that dumb :D
but im sure no spwaw freak would make a simple mistake like that:)

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- 9/3/2002 12:02:28 PM   
tracer


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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ivan
[B]no no no, i misunderstood, i thought you thought that achilles was a british hero :DDD [/B][/QUOTE]

Nothing in my post even suggested that. I see some Finns are that dumb too :D :D

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- 9/3/2002 12:57:08 PM   
antarctic

 

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Status: offline 		In what way was the City of Sydney (Australia) attacked in WWII by the Japanese?? Bonus marks for the number of vehicles used. Another bonus mark for the damages they did.

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- 9/3/2002 4:58:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know that one, but here's another one, what was Rommel's previous assignment before he became the commander of the 7th panzer in france in 1940?

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- 9/3/2002 6:29:39 PM   
Voriax

 

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[B]In what way was the City of Sydney (Australia) attacked in WWII by the Japanese?? Bonus marks for the number of vehicles used. Another bonus mark for the damages they did.

Antarctic [/B][/QUOTE]

3 minisubs, managed to sink one vessel used as a floating barracks. 21 casualties. Later Sydney was shelled from submarines for no real damage.

Trust the Google, the Google is Your Friend :)

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- 9/3/2002 10:43:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by troopie
[B]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

troopie [/B][/QUOTE]

with or without coconuts?

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- 9/3/2002 11:57:29 PM   
Kanon Fodder

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by bigtroutz
[B]

with or without coconuts? [/B][/QUOTE]

I would ASSuME that [COLOR=blue]unladen[/COLOR] answers your question.
;)

But - are they African or European ?
:D

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- 9/4/2002 12:49:16 AM   
Noodleboy

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kanon Fodder
[B]

I would ASSuME that [COLOR=blue]unladen[/COLOR] answers your question.
;)

But - are they African or European ?
:D [/B][/QUOTE]

I think they're German and the whole crux of their entry into the war whether they should carry 'coconuts' or not.

The laden version would be a Stormvogel?

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- 9/4/2002 11:30:10 AM   
troopie

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vetkin
[B]I don't know that one, but here's another one, what was Rommel's previous assignment before he became the commander of the 7th panzer in france in 1940? [/B][/QUOTE]

Don't know. But in WW1 he was a lieutenant in the mountain infantry.

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- 9/4/2002 1:38:36 PM   
antarctic

 

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Status: offline 		Aboslutelt right. Voriax. But I think they also managed to sink a Sydney Ferry, and damaged a US warship (I think)

Also, Before Rommel was put with the 7th panzers, he was a Colonel responsible for Hitler's safety...ie. the commander of Hitler's bodyguards.

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- 9/7/2002 9:30:05 PM   
Jacc

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by OKW-73
[B]

I never heard that he applied twice but did read from somewhere that he was rejected because caricature of his did look a like headmaster of art institute...or at least headmaster did think so...so maybe WW2 did start because this headmaster :D Story also tells that this headmaster was a jew... [/B][/QUOTE]

You have apparently read Veikko Huovinen's "Veitikka" (a finnish writer, and the word "veitikka" translates as "rascal"). A funny book, too bad it isn't translated into english. :D Hähä, suffer, you poor imperialists!
...ehem. I wouldn't take Veitikka as a reliable source, and the story about the headmaster has been debated. Never mind - a man with only one testicle will always make it high!

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- 9/7/2002 9:32:04 PM   
Jacc

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gaius Marius
[B]

Nero, on the other hand, did say "What a poet dies in me" before the Praetorian guard killed him, I believe. [/B][/QUOTE]

Actually he slit his own throat with a razor to escape a lynch mob.

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- 9/7/2002 9:41:46 PM   
Jacc

 

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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Voriax
[B]

Hello

They feared that Hitler would be seen as a martyr. They planned to use anthrax in this assasination, btw.

Voriax [/B][/QUOTE]

At some stage of the war, angered by German bombings on civilian targets, the Allieds wanted to make a punitive raid in Berlin, where they would have used anthrax - biological weapons! The plan was cancelled, but let it have been completed, the Berlin area would have been uninhabitable for somewhat ~80 years. Jeez.

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Re: Re: True or false - 9/8/2002 2:40:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by bigtroutz
[B]

1) debatable (pearl harbor dec 7, 1941)
vs. (malaya (dec 7, 1941)

The attack began at Pearl Harbor, though some historians say that a force struck a British installation on the Malay peninsula a few hours before.

another source says:
attack on malaya started at 7:30 am on Dec. 7, 25 minutes before 1st wave at PH at 7:55
I think I get this one; it's the date line. dec 7 in maylaya is a day before Dec 7 in Hawaii
snip [/B][/QUOTE]:cool: :cool:

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- 9/11/2002 6:24:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a trivia q for you. When the first tanks rumbled onto the battlefields of the First World War, they were often classified as 'male' or 'female'. What made a tank 'male' or 'female'?

Eric Maietta

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- 9/11/2002 6:41:13 AM   
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