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    #452
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    The answer was Saxony-Thuringia.

    Anyway, next question; Ephorus was a historian who followed Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War with one of his own, recording areas that Thucydides missed and in some cases giving different versions of the same story. Regrettably, we have no record of this history save indirect transcriptions by what Roman-age Sicilian (?) historian?


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    #453
    Capt'n Midnight
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    plutarch (guess)


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    #454
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nope. Plutarch was born in Boeotia (at Chaeronea I believe) in Greece, though he was Roman age, he was not the historian we are after.


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    #455
    Jim
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    tacitus [sp?]?


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    #456
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nope.


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    #457
    Manach
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    Livy?


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    #458
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nope.


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    #459
    Capt'n Midnight
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    it wasn't either of the Plinny's was it (late of vesuvious)


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    #460
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Nope - but I have to compliment you each on your knowledge of ancient historians.


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    #461
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    dammit janet.

    suetonious[sp?]?


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    #462
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Correct spelling and again, nope.

    Any last calls?


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    #463
    Jim
    Registered Users Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    jesus?

    [happy birthday btw]


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    #464
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    No - the answer was Diodorus Siculus. He's generally just called Diodorus though, and he was a native of Syracuse if I remember correctly. Moving swiftly on...

    How did Marcus Porcius Cato, (the contemporary of Iulius Caesar, can't remember if that was the Elder or the Younger and can't be arsed looking up Plutarch's life which I have upstairs) die and in what city?


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    #465
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Just a quick topical one while we're thinking of ancient historians...

    What happened on Christmas day in Jeruslem in 1927 ?


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    #466
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    I'd imagine some Palestinians were shot by occupying French or British forces. It seemed to happen every other day lol.

    I'd appreciate sticking to the question at hand though.


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    #467
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Juvinal was a satirist so not 'im

    And as for my question - no nothing nasty like that - it's a fun one :)


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    #468
    Manach
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    Did he commit suicide in a rather inept fashion as Caesar's army was about to nab him in North Africa?


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    #469
    Capt'n Midnight
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    It snowed :)


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    #470
    Capt'n Midnight
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    He wasn't the guy who had to fall on his sword because he couldn't poison himself because he'd built up an immunity to it (strycnine ?) 'cos he was taking a small amount daily to prevent himself being poisoned ?


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    #471
    Manach
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    Gentleman, the informal 24hr timeout has long since past, and I believe both the Captn and myself have near enough the right answer.
    So to restart,
    What is the highest military rank did the American President Buchanan achieved prior to his election?


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    #472
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Lieutenant-Colonel?


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    #473
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Lieutenant/Colonel?


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    #474
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    I'm going for Private please Bob.


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    #475
    Manach
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    Indeed Private, according to "Essential Militiaria", the lowest rank for a President, excluding GW Bush's reserve commision of Lt.
    Your turn.


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    #476
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Originally posted by Manach
    Indeed Private, according to "Essential Militiaria", the lowest rank for a President, excluding GW Bush's reserve commision of Lt.
    Your turn.

    I love that book! The sound the pages make when turning them is enough to justify the price alone. Roysh, as for a quezzer (and you'll need the skeelz for this one bai!) :

    The top RAF Ace of World War II was Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle with over 40 (and possibly as many as 50 depending on which text you check) kills. He was killed on 20 April 1941 in the Battle of Athens by an overwhelmingly superior Luftwaffe force. The question is; On this day, what famous author was up in the air with him?


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    #477
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The french lad wot wrote the little prince ?
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's


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    #478
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Nein! Guess again old bean.


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    #479
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Richard Hillary? He wrote "The Last Enemy" and was a spitfire pilot.


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    #480
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Not the man I'm looking for I'm afraid.


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    #481
    shock
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    Roald Dahl?


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