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Originally Posted by the tokai
I'm looking for a 19th century guy...
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No.Quote:
Originally Posted by the tokai
I'm looking for a 19th century guy...
merriwether lewis/ william clark?
nope
Started out as a missionary...
I really thought this was gonna be easy...
Dr Livingstone, I presume?
If I am right, then let the next poster ask the next question, please. I've been having trouble logging in here lately and don't know when I will next succeed.
Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandy Blue
David Livingstone (19 March 1813–1 May 1873), Scottish missionary in Africa, the first white man to see Mosi-oa-Tunya, the falls we know today as Victoria Falls. Famous for his several travels in Africa, especially the one along Zambezi river making him a first European to make a transcontinental trip across Africa. Accounts of his travels were extremely popular in the UK, even with the common people, giving him practically celebrity status.
As BB said, next poster may ask a question... (Tehnically I'm the next poster, but I'm sure he didn't mean me :laugh4:)
I guess i'll go then........
during the 1880's, this building was created in berlin as the "lunatic and idiot institution" for 'calm and agitated lunatics, agitated and unclean sick people, epileptic lunatics and bodily afflicted lunatics'
it later added new patients, as an 'abstinence sanatorium' for the drug addicted and the alcoholic, as well as the 'inferior races'. the 'inferior races' added in the 1930's were forcefully sterlized(castrated) so they could not reproduce and create more 'idiots' as they were accused of doing.
at the start of WWII, most of the doctors here joined the nazi 'office for the extermination of those unworthy of life' on Tiergartenstraße 4, the so-named 'T4 action'. over 9000 men,women, and children were tortured, experimented on, and killed here, but many more were transported through the sanatorium to other places to be slaughtered.
what building is this?
p.s: im jewish so i can ask nazi questions :D
Yeah after I posted I realized Marco Polo was the one who wrote one of his books in prison, not the one who had his book finished after his death, but couldn't correct it because I couldn't get on the org anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarmatian
Landesklinik Brandenburg? :wall:
nein
Wittenau Sanatorium
'Aha a place of learning and ... ?' :help: what comes next?
Yes!!!! go Xipe
Danke mein herr.
Okay orgahs ... Which famous Roman became emperor at 14, tried to marry a Vestal Virgin :shocked:, went on to have at least 3 wives, became a transvestite prostitute who wished to be surgically transformed into a woman :kiss2:, liked to be beaten by one of his slaves :whip:, and was finally killed by his guards whilst hiding in a latrine at the age of 18, when he tried to have his cousin and adopted son murdered :thumbsdown:.
jesus christ.......thats horrible!!
anyway:
Romulus Augustulus?
Nope. Romulus Augustulus abdicated and retired peacefully at the ripe old age of 16.
The famously debauched Elagabalus, possiblely one of the worst emperor in Roman history.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xipe Totec
That's the kiddie. And there certainly were quite a few exceptional candidates for that accolade. The baton is yours Quintus.JC.
Cheers.
The battle I'm looking for is one so decisive that it paved the way for the unification of a nation. Lasting several years and involving men power of the grandest scale in the ancient times. Famously hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the losing side were buried alive after the battle because fear of revolt. What is the battle?
The Battle of Julu 207 b.c. after which 200,000 Qin soldiers were buried alive on the orders of the victorious Chu rebel leader Xiang Lu?
Or was it the battle of Changping in 260 bc after which 400,000 Zhao soldiers were buried alive on the orders of Qin general Bai Qi?
Now come to mention it my description was a big vague, but you got it anyway. The battle of Changping it is. Your turn again mate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xipe Totec
The commander Zhao Kuo at Changping was prophesied for disaster as his father Zhao She warned on his death bed that his son should never be allowed to command an army. The more famous tale was that "as soon as Zhao Kuo's mother heard that he was going off to the front, she immediately went to the King and told him this tale: one day, when the late Zhao She and Zhao Kuo were talking military tactics and playing Chinese chess, she was amazed to see the son beating the more experienced father every single time. However, Zhao She was not impressed. When asked why, Zhao She said, "This boy treats a battle like a game of chess, his men like mere pawns that can be sacrificed at will. He has no idea what real warfare is like! He can never command an army." source wikipedia
yeah, i think the fact that lots of guys were buried alive alone is a bit vague.
Which great warrior king died of a nose bleed on the night of his wedding?
easy. Atilla the Hun!
and, wasn't it the night of one of his weddings to a princess who hated him?
Yes of course that's right. Ildico was found weeping next to his body the next morning. Most likely they both passed out too drunk to properly enjoy the evening. In the film she engineered their meeting and eventual marriage at the instigation of Aetius purely to murder Attila in revenge for her father's death. Absurd.
Over to you Prussian Iron!
ooooooh. you see i vaguely remembered something about a murder theory for revenge. i didnt rememeber anything else though.
hmmm.........let me think......
in 1300, this city was one of the last iberian-moorish cities still standing against the spaniards brutal reconquista, aimed at efeating and driving all muslims off the iberian peninsula.
oddly enough, it was actually attacked during the second crusade by Alfonso VII, king of Galicia, Leon, and Castille, when most of its buildings and people were slaughtered. it was then turned back over to the Almoravid empire.
what is this city, which was bombarded by Germans during the Spanish Civil War?
Almeria
yes! go
Which European country gained its independence after a short victorious war in which only 18 of its soldiers were killed?
is it still a country right now?
Yes
Is it Slovenia?Quote:
Originally Posted by Xipe Totec
- WikipediaQuote:
Casualties
Due to the short duration and low intensity of the war, casualties were low. According to Slovenian estimates, the JNA suffered 44 fatalities and 146 wounded, while the Slovenians had 18 killed and 182 wounded. Twelve foreign nationals were killed in the conflict, principally journalists and Bulgarian truck drivers who had strayed into the line of fire. 4,692 JNA soldiers and 252 federal police officers were captured by the Slovenian side. According to post-war assessments made by the JNA, its material losses amounted to 31 tanks, 22 armoured personnel carriers, 6 helicopters, 6,787 infantry weapons, 87 artillery pieces and 124 air defence weapons damaged, destroyed or confiscated. Property damage was fairly light, due to the scattered and short-term nature of the fighting.
Yes that is correct. They were very fortunate to escape the horror which engulfed most of the former republics of the F.R. Jugoslavija. I was fortunate to visit Slovenia for a holiday at Lake Bled some years before the troubles started. Over to you for the next question then alh_p!
Thanks Xipe totec, I visited Slovenia a few years ago and remember hearing of their amazingly one sided independance.
The next question then is:
Which Ottoman Sultan did Timur "the Lame" (of MTW2 Timurid *fame*) defeat?
Beyazid, at the battle of Angora 1402.
Yes! Sorry it took me till now to check back in. Your turn Sarmatian...
I'm too lazy to think of a question now. Next poster, please...
if you give me til tonight, ill have a good one up, i promise.
i hope you guys know alot qbout the crusades...........
part 1:the battle of Harran was a less-well known battle, in which 2 different turkish factions joined together. which factions were these?
part 2: what was another name for this battle?
The Seljuks and Artuqids fought together at Ar-Raqqah.
yep.
just so you guys know:
i didnt get it up last night because i had to look for something in my 'Battles of the Crusades' book. it's really pretty interesting; it covers every religiously driven battle from (i belive) 1011-1400's. from the reconquista all the way through Outremer, through eastern europe and poland(teutonic campaign basically), and ending with a hungarian crusader battle in the near-east. i reccomend it.
What was the location of the great sea battle fought in the early hours of a morning at the end of the sixteenth century, in which 300 Japanese ships were sunk or captured. Their Korean and Chinese adversaries lost just one ship, on which all aboard were indiscriminately slaughtered by the Japanese.:shame:
Battle of Hansando, its the most famous of that time period. its hard to know though because the Koreans won most of the battles in this time frame
Sorry not the answer I was looking for. The Japanese lost 59 ships at the Battle of Hansando and the Koreans none. Chinese were not involved.
battle of noryang?
200 jap ships sunk, 100 captured.
koreans loss: 500 soldiers/sailors.
Yes! :beam:
The battle which finally saw an end to Hideyoshi's ambitions to conquer China and Korea. The great Korean admiral Yi Sunshin whose brilliance saved his nation from ignominious stark defeat, was killed by a stray shot from an arquebus on the deck of his flagship as the battle raged on. His dying command was for his death not to be announced for fear of affecting his men's morale, so his nephew donned his armour and bestrode the quarterdeck whilst his body was hidden in his cabin.
Over to you P.I.
yay!!!!
ok.....um.......
in 1887, this king of hawaii forcibly signed this constitution, which took away nearly all the power from the hawaiian monarchy?
King David Kalakaua signed the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, also known as the Bayonet Constitution because it was imposed by an armed militia of 3000 residents, including the famous Honolulu Rifles :laugh4: . The main effect was to limit suffrage, which had been previously universal for males, to rich landowners and businessmen. The large numbers of Asian immigrants were specifically excluded also. Eventually the move resulted in sovereignty passing to the USA which meant lots of Coca-Cola, hamburgers, diabetes and Japanese bombs.
wow. Xipe, we are such wikipedia-whores https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image.../gc-laugh4.gif https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image.../gc-laugh4.gif !!!!
back to you!
It's all just too easy.
Which Meso-American city was the last great capital of its people, featuring a huge rectangular masonry platform, on which were five great stepped circular pyramids containing the remains of their past kings or Kasonsis ?
I found it in a :book:
It wasn't the Aztecs, probably not the Maya, but my good friend google suggested it is the last Tarascan capital, the greatly unpronouceable Tzintzuntzan.
Tenochitlan???, Macchu Picchu???
it couldnt be tenochtitlan; thats waaaaaay too easy.
......................tenochtitlan? :P
aimlesswanderer has it correct, it was Tzintzuntzan. Don't forget to read and reply to my superb Tarascan M2TW campaign guide, which no-one has bothered to reply to since I wrote it last October! ~:mecry:
Actually I got too bored to finish it. It was just melee with Jaguars, opponents ran away, Jaguars stopped fighting and then couldn't catch them to finish the job. Gah!
This city was the capital city of the first dynasty to unite the country, but which ruled the whole country for less than 20 years before rebellion brought it to an end. The first man to unite the country was recorded in histories as being known for his cruelty, suspiciousness and superstitiousness.
Xianyang.
Correct. That was clearly too easy, next time I had better include less clues. Over to you then Shinseikhaan.
honestly, this sentence alone i could've gotten the answer:
This city was the capital city of the first dynasty to unite the country
Not to mention the part about the suspicious leader. That just screamed qin (sp?) to me
qin is correct. i dont know how the letters in english look like it says 'kin' instead of 'chin', but.....you know.
Yeah i thought so. So may we get the next question, grrr i will get one right eventually
shinseiikhan?
ummmm.......
hey if no one asks a question within the next day can i go?
Sorry guys, I honestly forgot. Whoever wants to ask the next question can go right ahead.
in this game, released in 2009, you can use large smurfs, named 'pandours'. what is the name of the head smurf of the pandour order of the austrian smurf-town?
JK
ok here, based on info from my 'Medieval History' class:
another 2-part question:
In this 12th century document chronicling the early history of the Slavs and European Russia, the northern Slavic peoples banded together to drive out this group of vikings in the mid 9th century. however, the Slavs soon bean to attack and slaughter each other, leading to the invitation of 3 brothers of the same vikings whom they had just driven out.
so:
1) what is the 12th century document?
2) what is the viking group?
In the Ancient Chronicle of the monk Nestor of Kiev, the vikings are referred to as the Varangians. I am sure any players or ex-players of MTW will be very familiar with the Byzantine's stalwart Varangian Guards!
the verangians are correct, but the chronicle is wrong.
Also known as the Russian Chronicle?
'THE THREE PRINCES. During the years 6386, 6369, and 6370, [from 860-862] the Varangians crossed the Sea. This time the people who had already submitted to them refused to pay them tribute longer, and wished to govern themselves, but there was no sense of justice among them. One family raised itself against the others, and this foolishness brought frequent disaster. They therefore decided among themselves, "Let us seek a Prince who will govern us and who will give us justice." In order to find him, the Slavs crossed the Sea and sought him among the Varangians. The Chudes, the Slavs, the Krivichs and other peoples together spoke thus to the princes of Varangia: "Our country is large and has everything in abundance except that we lack order and justice; come take possession and govern us." Three Varangian brothers together with their families went, in effect, to occupy Slavonia. They settled among the Slavs, and in the country they built the city of Ladoga. The eldest of the three, Rurik, set up his residence along the banks of the river of that name. The second, Sineous, set up his house in the regions of the Blanc. The third, Trouvor, at Isbosk. That part of Russia was later called Novgorod by the Varangians, but the residents of that country, before the arrival of Rurik, had been known only by the name of Slavs. '
not the russian chronicle either...
Tale of Bygone Years? :laugh4:
I think its the chronicle of john skylitzes. It was produced in the mid 12th century
nope. neither of those.
The PRIMARY CHRONICLE, one of Russia's first historical annals, it mentions varangians.
Yes! the Primary Chronicle is correct! go Centurion!
The Primary Chronicle is also known as the Russian Chronicle and in Russian the 'Tale of Bygone Years', and was written mainly by Nestor of Kiev.
Ahh, i gotta go somewhere so here's one off the top of my head. A certain chronicle is known as the first British history book. Who wrote it, where was it written (a little more specific than Britain please :sweatdrop:), and when was it written (just the time frame please.
Anglo-Saxon chronicle?
compiled of 9 chronicles dated from 60 B.C.-1154 A.D.
Yeah, wikipedia is great, isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prussian Iron
It is,Quote:
yeah wikipedia, is great isn't it
However those answers are wrong, try again.
Oh and dont forget who and where
was it created at any 1 time by any 1 person?
and was it english or irish? british is a little vague.
The 'Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum' written by the Venerable Bede in Northumbria, completed in or around 731 AD.
Congratulations, Xipe your question