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Basically I'm after a sinking of a ship and it's ranked as the biggest maritime disaster due to it having the highest casualties of any sinking ship.
The Titanic is on the right track due to it being a ship, but compared to the sinking of the Titanic, this maritime disaster ended up killing nearly six times as many people.
Luistania?
The boat the Germans sunk in WW1, the one with all the Americans and British on it!
It's "Lusitania" Warluster.
My guess is the U.S.S. Maine, which led to the Spanish-American War. I'm clueing off of:
1) You said it's a ship
2) you said six times the number of deaths from the Titanic, which is 6x1500, which is 9000, far less than the sums of the deaths of World War I and World War II; now, it seems possible to me that the number of deaths from the Spanish-American War was around 9000 (if only because the Americans, with relatively few casualties and deaths, soundly thrashed Spain)
3) By extension one can argue that the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power, with all that that implies...
The Wilhelm Gustloff?
Csar is correct. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet submarine on January 30th 1945 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating refugees from East Prussia is regarded as perhaps the single worst maritime disaster in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm...off_%28ship%29
I knew that :P... I saw a documentary about that on discovery a long time ago...
Whoever posts a question next can have my turn.
A certian place in Central America, it was the place of an famous battle which happened in the 15th century. What was the name of the battle and what year did it take place? And between what nations?
Hint-Think of Hearts!!
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Originally Posted by Warluster
...was it when Spainish Conquistador Hernando Cortez took over the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan in August 1521?
Darn it, it was an easy question!
Yes thats correct... :Mumble Mumble:
yes, it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warluster
https://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l...Great/dude.jpg
Who is this man? He was a criminal here in the states. He ratted on his fellows in the mob.
Sammy 'the Bulll' Gravano?
yes, "you are" correct (this lame response was the reason I POSTED THE PICTURE)...sorry caps lock...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cangrande
Ok, so my question...hmmm
A superpower of their time, they invented zero
Wasn't the zero an Indian invention?
Babylon?
Egypt?
Assryia? China?
There are multiple answers to this question. The three best I can think of are:
The Mayans
The Arabs
The Indians
There is the concept of zero in the placeholder sense, or there is the concept of "true zero" - that is to say, a non-value integer. Key difference, and I assume you're asking for the latter.
would it be Japan? (for the plane)
yeah... i think yur right... very good question...it now seems totally obvious to me but i thinkthats becuz i saw yur answer before the question
Maybe Aryabhatta (476-550), a mathematician and an astronomer in the Gupta empire (North and Central India, 4th - 6th century)? The Arabs used his books, and called the zero 'sifr', adaptation of the Sanskrit word. Some Roman languages (and Greek, i think) used that word for "number" (like chiffre in French).
Not there yet, tho in a sense Archayon is closest
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Originally Posted by Cangrande
i think you need to define what you mean by "zero" then.
Is it "zero" as a value you can go below (like in negative values, necessary to calculate debts)
Is it "zero" as a mathematic symbol you can calculate with?
Is it "zero" as "0", the symbol?
Is it "zero" in a simple existentialistic meaning, like "nothing" ?
Anyway, in my opinion (as far as i can remember from my lessons),
Aryabhatta calculated some numbers (like pi) and introduced hereby
the zero as a number.
The practical side, like calculating debts, is a Babylonian "invention"
i think? Further researched by the Persians?
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Arch
I mean 'zero'!
You're all getting way too deep :dizzy2:
arabs? Japanese if you meant the plains... but thats said...
Maybe he's talking about the word.. just an idea.
Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khawarazmi?
So close but no! A bit closer to home