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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 6:27 am
by Xandax
We are all in the end only talking to ourselves
and yes
Austria is mean to be Austria/Hungarian at that time.
Just didn't bother to type everything in (lazy
)
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 6:29 am
by Tom
ooohh ya now you know
easy when i told yah
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 7:39 am
by fable
@Word, since your parents clearly named you in honor of a Microsoft program, can you name twenty-five PC-based word processors that were all being sold over the counter in 1988?
(Sidenote: it's hard to believe now the sheer variety of great applications that used to exist before Microprose bought out, fought out, or bullied out of existence so many mom-and-pop companies, whose products did many things better than Gates' empire. Let's all hope the US judicial system splits up the company, and soon.)
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:00 am
by Word
@Gruntboy I'm serously using only my mind I'm telling you guys I just good with history (mostly ancient though).
1)Britain
2)germany
3)USA
4)Japan
5)France
2)Napoleon (Civil War all Napoleonic tactics and I don't know writers)
@Fable actually its a slang term used at my high school which is used at the end of a long speech by somebody else. i find it incredibly stupid and its easy to remember.
1)the Crapper 3000
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:04 am
by Tom
blimy word
i duno what to say
your the man
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:08 am
by fable
Originally posted by Word:
<STRONG>@Gruntboy I'm serously using only my mind I'm telling you guys I just good with history (mostly ancient though). </STRONG>
Neat. I'm curious: what translation of Herodotus do you prefer? And what do you think of him?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:14 am
by Gruntboy
The US had a p*ss ant fleet in 1913.
Answers:
1) Britain
2) France
3) Germany
4) Italy
5) Japan
Regarding Naploean, perhaps that was a poorly phrased question.
Napolean did indeed influence Civil War Tactics. But he never wrote anyhting down
. About the only stuff old Boney wrote down was how to conquer... women in bed
. Baron de Jomini *did* write down his observations of Napolean's art. US Civil war Generals were students of French military writers, not Prussian ones.
But I would be inclined to say the war became more on a par with the trenches of the First World War as opposed to the tactics of the Napoleonic Wars.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:40 am
by Xandax
Originally posted by Gruntboy:
<STRONG>The US had a p*ss ant fleet in 1913.
Answers:
1) Britain
2) France
3) Germany
4) Italy
5) Japan
</STRONG>
Well okay - my list was taken from 1914 not 1913 *dough*
Actually my former list was wrong:
Britain
Germany
US
France
Japan
(Austria
Russia
Italy)
[ 08-22-2001: Message edited by: Xandax ]
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:46 am
by Yshania
OK here's some history questions for you...
1. Who betrayed Norway to the Nazis? (oh no! I have said the word!
)
2. Who swapped the Sudetenland for 'peace in our time'?
3. Who was known as
The Liberator of South America?
4. What was the name of the African independence movement that fought the British in Kenya in the 1950s?
5. What prompted the Btitish royal family to change it's name?
6. Who was the last ruler in the Egyptian dynasty of the Ptolemies?
7. Who was the only woman to have won two Nobel prizes?
8. Who did Gerald Ford grant a pardon to a month after becoming president?
9. Who was the first US president in office to be born in the 20th Century?
10. What emperor was known as
The Lion of Judah?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 9:57 am
by Word
@fable sorry but when i said writers I men artsy people like ancient greek philosophes. Heres what I know about Heredotus he was an ancient greek philosophe around the 2nd century B.C. I believe he had to with government and politics. as for a translation I would have to say Latin since that is the only ancient language I can read right know I'm only in high school. I'm better with goverment, the empires, military, and religon (myths and pantheons).
@Gruntboy it wasn't until Grant took over the Union army in 1864 that it became trench warfare. He decided to wear down th rebs and throw men at them so Lee took to the trenches. like at Cold Harbor, Spotslyvania, and the Wilderness.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:06 am
by Word
@ Yshania
1)Don't Know
2)Not sure what your talking about
3)Simon Bolivar
4)I used to know but forgot
5)When?
6)Cleopatra VII (Destroy by Augustus)
7)Marie Curey
8)Nixon
9)JFK
10)Biblical or no?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:09 am
by Xandax
Originally posted by Yshania:
<STRONG>OK here's some history questions for you...
1. Who betrayed Norway to the Nazis? (oh no! I have said the word!
)
2. Who swapped the Sudetenland for 'peace in our time'?
3. Who was known as
The Liberator of South America?
4. What was the name of the African independence movement that fought the British in Kenya in the 1950s?
5. What prompted the Btitish royal family to change it's name?
6. Who was the last ruler in the Egyptian dynasty of the Ptolemies?
7. Who was the only woman to have won two Nobel prizes?
8. Who did Gerald Ford grant a pardon to a month after becoming president?
9. Who was the first US president in office to be born in the 20th Century?
10. What emperor was known as
The Lion of Judah?
</STRONG>
1)Vidkun Quisling
2)Neville Chamberlain
3)Simon Bolivar
4)?
5)?
6)Cleopatra VII
7)Marie Curie
8)Richard Nixon
9)JFK
10)Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:10 am
by rapier
Originally posted by Yshania:
<STRONG>5. What prompted the Btitish royal family to change it's name?
</STRONG>
Ummm...hehehe...
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:15 am
by Yshania
@Rapier haha!
I will not edit this Freudian slip
Ok, checking answers....
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:17 am
by Word
Good questions man if I thought about it more i think i should have known H.S. of Ethiopia. Duh
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:22 am
by Yshania
Posted by Word -
1)Don't Know
2)Not sure what your talking about
3)Simon Bolivar
4)I used to know but forgot
5)When?
6)Cleopatra VII (Destroy by Augustus)
7)Marie Curey
8)Nixon
9)JFK
10)Biblical or no?
1)
2)Peace in our time was his famous quotation..
3)correct
4)
5)That would give it away (20th century)
6)correct
7)correct
8)correct
9)correct
10)not biblical
5 out of 10
Posted by Xandax -
1)Vidkun Quisling
2)Neville Chamberlain
3)Simon Bolivar
4)?
5)?
6)Cleopatra VII
7)Marie Curie
8)Richard Nixon
9)JFK
10)Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
1. correct
2. correct
3. correct
4.
5.
6. correct
7. correct
8. correct
9. correct
10. correct
8 out of ten. My you are a man of trivia aren't you?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 10:23 am
by fable
Originally posted by Word:
<STRONG>@fable sorry but when i said writers I men artsy people like ancient greek philosophes. Heres what I know about Heredotus he was an ancient greek philosophe around the 2nd century B.C. I believe he had to with government and politics. as for a translation I would have to say Latin since that is the only ancient language I can read right know I'm only in high school. I'm better with goverment, the empires, military, and religon (myths and pantheons).
</STRONG>
@Word, you may want to get a good edition of Herodotus' Histories, then. He provides an interesting overview of the Persian Wars, and examines a variety of civilizations: Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian (of course), Greek, Scythian, etc. Now, by examine, I don't mean he lists GNP, population, etc; he mentions the things he's seen or heard about them, their views, even their stories about themselves. To Herodotus, all this is part of a culture.
And of course, over it all, is the Greek city-state's fierce desire to manage (or mismanage, as the case may be) their own affairs. It makes great reading.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 12:43 pm
by fable
4. What was the name of the African independence movement that fought the British in Kenya in the 1950s?
You mean the Mau-Mau Rebellion? That was big stuff. The Brits didn't think much of the Mau-Maus because of their primitive weaponry, but they forgot the lessons of the American Revolution: try to avoid challenging a native force on terrain of their own choosing.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 1:07 pm
by Mr Sleep
Originally posted by fable:
<STRONG>
but they forgot the lessons of the American Revolution: try to avoid challenging a native force on terrain of their own choosing.
</STRONG>
It's ironic really, the exact thing that the US used to defeat the British, the Vietnamese then turned to their advantage against the US.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2001 1:24 pm
by fable
Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>It's ironic really, the exact thing that the US used to defeat the British, the Vietnamese then turned to their advantage against the US.
</STRONG>
Yep.