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    #302
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    I'd guess Dorian, by use of 5th column tactics :)


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    #303
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Correct!! :D


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    #304
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    In 1739, The English declared war on Spain due their alleged mistreatment of a certain part of a Mr. Robert Jenkins' anatomy.
    Q: What was it?


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    #305
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    His ear


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    #306
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Correct - your Q...


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    #307
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    What woman founded the Tenri sect.


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    #308
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    A tenriryo sect was founded by a Japanese women named Miki or Mikao. <Don't leave home without your portable Penguin's Dictionary of Relgion :) >


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    #309
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Yep!


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    #310
    Manach
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    In 1937, the World's first full length cartoon film was created, it's name?


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    #311
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Was it Popeye?


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    #312
    Manach
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    Nope Doc.


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    #313
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Methinks a day is truly up - you fancy telling us the answer manach?


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    #314
    Capt'n Midnight
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    It was Snow White and the seven Dwarfs.

    Q. name them ! (only joking)

    During the Siege of Syracuse when Greeks / Romans and Phonecians(or was it Carthinginians) had a balance of power in the Med, who let the Romans in the back door and thus allowed the Romans to become the dominant power ?


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    #315
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    The Carthaginians since Phoenicia is a region in the Levant, below Cilicia and above Egypt.

    As for the answer, haven't a clue!


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    #316
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    It was the Carthaginians not the Phonecians.

    Hiero II?


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    #317
    spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭spanner


    Originally posted by Manach
    My question:
    in 49BC, Caesar is said to have crossed what river to invade Italy?

    the po

    in what year did hugh mac neill surrender to king james


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    #318
    spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭spanner


    Originally posted by Hairy Homer
    Being presumptuous here, but then I know I was right for the last one. \


    Question: Abyssinia was one of only two African countries that were ruled independently of a European imperial power in the year 1900.

    Name the other one.


    south africa or the transvall


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    #319
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Sierra Leon (SP) - setup by the USA for free slaves, hence capital is ######
    [edit]Just as well I didn't go Geography in the Leaving Cert.
    Liberia (Monrovia) is the next country to Sierra Leone (Freetown)
    [/edit]

    Always thought that JC crossed the rubicon...

    Can't find the name of the Traitor who let the Romans into Syracuse in 211 BC - it's in a book at home :(
    Hiero was the King so it wern't him

    What was the name of the Chinese sailor who led a huge fleet westwards to India and Africa around the time Chris C was discovering America... ?


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    #320
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Admiral Chengo Ho of the Chinese Imperial Fleet led a massive navy to the East coast of Africa.

    And Julius Caesar did cross the Rubicon but since he left from Transpadanian Gaul, I assume he also crossed the Po...?

    By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from?


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    #321
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Originally posted by Éomer of Rohan
    By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from?

    Exactly what I was wondering!!


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    #322
    Victor
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    Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
    Sierra Leon (SP) - setup by the USA for free slaves, hence capital is libertyville
    Not Liberia?


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    #323
    Capt'n Midnight
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    By the way, am I missing something or where the hell did Spanner come from?

    I hope you aren't asking me - my geography aint the May West. (edited the prev post) :D


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    #324
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Capt'n am I right or wrong about Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho?


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    #325
    Capt'n Midnight
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    tis him ..


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    #326
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    MWAAAHHAAAAHAAAAHAAAA [/manic laugh]

    Sorry, it's near Halloween and it's finally my turn again....

    From where - geographical location will do - did Themistokles of Athens gain the resources necessary to build a hundred triremes to fight a war with Aegina (and subsequently with Persia) prior to 480 BC?


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    #327
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Ceders of Lebanon ?


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    #328
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    No, it was from the silver mines at Laurion, in southern Attica.
    The wood for the triremes so far as I am aware was brought from Macedon / Methone / Thrace.

    Anyway, let's try a different tack...

    What rather loose female informed Cicero of the Catilinarian Conspiracy in his year as Consul in 63BC?


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    #329
    Manach
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    Clodia ?


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    #330
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nope.


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    #331
    sci0x
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Aurelia?


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