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    #782
    Pazaz 21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Pazaz 21


    Victor wrote:
    Mid Ulster?

    Tehran even? http://www.labournet.net/events/0402/sands1.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands


    Thats the place, i read it somewhere before, but it was a long time ago. Thanks :D


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    #783
    Fenian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Fenian


    I'm really looking for the county or counties he was elected too.


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    #784
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,371 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Victor wrote:
    Mid Ulster?
    Oops, next one over Fermanagh - South Tyrone.

    People are elected to constituencies, not counties.


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    #785
    Fenian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Fenian


    People are elected to constituencies, not counties.

    True, but I was looking for the counties within the constituence he was elected to.

    Fermanagh/ South Tyrone is correct.

    Your go.


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    #786
    Vulpiner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Vulpiner


    What was the name of the one-armed, one-eyed Colonel who carried a bomb into into the Wolfs lair and tried to blow up Hitler in 1944?


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    #787
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Stauffenberg


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    #788
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    What was the name of the German Emperor who broke up his Empire in an attempt to move it south to Italy?


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    #789
    Pazaz 21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Pazaz 21


    Grimes wrote:
    What was the name of the German Emperor who broke up his Empire in an attempt to move it south to Italy?

    Barbarossa ?


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    #790
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Close but no doughnut copper!


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    #791
    Vulpiner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Vulpiner


    Rudolf?


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    #792
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    As in Santa's? I dont think its Rudolf. Now Im second guessing myself. One more attempt and Ill give you the answer


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    #793
    Vulpiner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Vulpiner


    Straining with all my might Ill guess Louis, one of Charlmagnes sons.


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    #794
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    I have fecking forgotten now. I think it was Frederick II close with Barbarossa though

    edit: yeah deffo Freddy II


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    #795
    AdrianR
    Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭AdrianR


    New Question:

    What was the first battle involving the English in which someone got shot with the use of gunpowder?


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    #796
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    Avignon?


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    #797
    AdrianR
    Registered Users Posts: 267 ✭✭AdrianR


    Agincourt, Apparantly some French guy brought along a thunder stick.


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    #798
    Riamfada
    Registered Users Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    thats what i meant (stupid brain)


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    #799
    InFront
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭InFront


    Can I play?!

    It's a pity to see the game stopped, this is an excellent way of brushing out the cobwebs in the brain!

    ... I've just been going on about the topic in politics so... Who was the Viceroy in India at the time of independence and subsequent division of the country?


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    #800
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Mountbatten


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    #801
    InFront
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭InFront


    The very dude.:)


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    #802
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What did Edison invent ?


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    #803
    Dasilva94
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Dasilva94


    The electric light bulb?


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    #804
    InFront
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭InFront


    The light bulb?

    If that wasnt him, this is going to be embarressing...

    EDIT: We cant both be wrong!


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    #805
    Dasilva94
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Dasilva94


    Dasilva94 wrote:
    The electric light bulb?
    So i'm going on the the fact I was right with Edison,and that no one has piped up with another question.

    Here's a politco-geographic puzzler:

    What is the name of the territory inside Azerbaijan that is claimed by the Armenians?


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    #806
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,371 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Dasilva94 wrote:
    Here's a politco-geographic puzzler: What is the name of the territory inside Azerbaijan that is claimed by the Armenians?
    Nagorno-Karabakh.

    When did Azerbaijan first gain its independence?


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    #807
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Dasilva94 wrote:
    So i'm going on the the fact I was right with Edison,and that no one has piped up with another question.

    Here's a politco-geographic puzzler:

    What is the name of the territory inside Azerbaijan that is claimed by the Armenians?
    I was offline so you can ask,

    But Edison did NOT invent the light bulb, nor was he the first with a carbon filament - In 1860, an English physicist and electrician, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, produced his first experimental light bulb using carbonized paper as a filament.


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    #808
    Dasilva94
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Dasilva94


    Yeah, well I was going with the popular history version of the answer.:)

    But if you look at the wiki page on the Light Bulb you get this paragraph:
    'In addressing the question "Who invented the incandescent lamp?" historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel (1987, 115-117) list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Swan and Edison. They conclude that Edison's version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of factors: an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to achieve and a high resistance lamp that made power distribution from a centralised source economically viable. Another historian, Thomas Hughes, has attributed Edison's success to the fact that he invented an entire, integrated system of electric lighting. "The lamp was a small component in his system of electric lighting, and no more critical to its effective functioning than the Edison Jumbo generator, the Edison main and feeder, and the parallel-distribution system. Other inventors with generators and incandescent lamps, and with comparable ingenuity and excellence, have long been forgotten because their creators did not preside over their introduction in a system of lighting." (Hughes 1977, 9)'

    So maybe there is no one person who developed the light bulb as we know it, but a succession of scientists who each improved on the work of their predecessors.


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    #809
    The Long Fellow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭The Long Fellow


    ah but who got the patent??


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    #810
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,303 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The Long Fellow wrote:
    ah but who got the patent??
    ask the Lumiere brothers...


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    #811
    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    Heres one...

    Which officer, whom later surrendered the Singapore garrison to the Japanese in WW2, ordered the burning of Michael Collins home 'Woodfield' in April 1921??


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