Historical Event Game Showing 701-750 of 2,205

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

OK, place your bets, folks - are we going to beat 29 clues on this one, or not?

[Manuel]

Person

1. involved in dynastic family feud
2. composed beautiful love songs
3. two older brothers
4. snubbed by Belgian and German Royals
5. detested and snubbed by mother-in-law
6. outlived heir(s)
7. famously clashes with Charlton Heston in the movie version
8 portrait can be found on rare stamps. Very valuable if you find any.
9. 3 children, none with spouse
10. befriended by British Royals
11. Home can be seen in the opening credits of a VERY popular and Iconic TV series.
12. Condemned by Provisional Government, sentenced to hard labor.
13. Wrote best selling memoirs
14. Home used as head-quarters for occupation forces
15. Recipient of famous apology
16. Home restored, now a museum.
17. Still mourned 92 years after death
18. Learned English as a child at elite school for royal children
19. Unsatisfactory , loveless marriage
20. Adultery
21. TV show ran over 10 years
22. Eventually, homeland became one of 4 republics absorbed by neighbor.

[Jim]

WAG - Thomas Ashe

[Will]

Thomas Ashe? Who the heck is that?

[Jim]

He was a guy in the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Came up when tracking down the Michael Collins clue a while back. I thought of him & there's a stamp & he died in 1917. He's Irish, so he probably fought with his family (mine does) & I just left the rest to the winds. Hey, it's a WAG!

[Manuel]

what an interesting answer-but no Jim.

[Manuel]

Person

1. involved in dynastic family feud
2. composed beautiful love songs
3. two older brothers
4. snubbed by Belgian and German Royals
5. detested and snubbed by mother-in-law
6. outlived heir(s)
7. famously clashes with Charlton Heston in the movie version
8 portrait can be found on rare stamps. Very valuable if you find any.
9. 3 children, none with spouse
10. befriended by British Royals
11. Home can be seen in the opening credits of a VERY popular and Iconic TV series.
12. Condemned by Provisional Government, sentenced to hard labor.
13. Wrote best selling memoirs
14. Home used as head-quarters for occupation forces
15. Recipient of famous apology
16. Home restored, now a museum.
17. Still mourned 92 years after death
18. Learned English as a child at elite school for royal children
19. Unsatisfactory , loveless marriage
20. Adultery
21. TV show ran over 10 years
22. Eventually, homeland became one of 4 republics absorbed by neighbor.
23. inherited the throne at age 53

[Manuel]

Person

1. involved in dynastic family feud
2. composed beautiful love songs
3. two older brothers
4. snubbed by Belgian and German Royals
5. detested and snubbed by mother-in-law
6. outlived heir(s)
7. famously clashes with Charlton Heston in the movie version
8 portrait can be found on rare stamps. Very valuable if you find any.
9. 3 children, none with spouse
10. befriended by British Royals
11. Home can be seen in the opening credits of a VERY popular and Iconic TV series.
12. Condemned by Provisional Government, sentenced to hard labor.
13. Wrote best selling memoirs
14. Home used as head-quarters for occupation forces
15. Recipient of famous apology
16. Home restored, now a museum.
17. Still mourned 92 years after death
18. Learned English as a child at elite school for royal children
19. Unsatisfactory , loveless marriage
20. Adultery
21. TV show ran over 10 years
22. Eventually, homeland became one of 4 republics absorbed by neighbor.
23. inherited the throne at age 53
24. Queen Victoria charmed at their first meeting.

[Manuel]

Congratulations Kelly
You got it

I was running out of clues!

[Manuel]

which clue did it for you?

[Manuel]

Good going Kelley!!!

Here is an explanation of my clues::

1. involved in dynastic family feud
2. composed beautiful love songs:Aloha Oe is the most famous, reworked by Elvis in Blue Hawaii
3. two older brothers-both kings,
4. snubbed by Belgian and German Royals---At Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the Crown Prince of Belgium and the King of Saxony refused to sit next to a "brown" woman.
5. detested and snubbed by mother-in-law. She was a bigot from Boston
6. outlived heir(s)

7. famously clashes with Charlton Heston in the movie version:
In the movie "The Hawaiians" from the book by James Michener, Charlton Heston is a pineapple grower frustrated by the Queen's policies, he conspires to overthrow her.
8 portrait can be found on rare stamps. Very valuable if you find any:
9. 3 children, none with spouse

10. befriended by British Royals: Queen Victoria arranged for the Prince of Wales to escort Liliuokalani at the banquet.

11. Home can be seen in the opening credits of a VERY popular and Iconic TV series: Hawaii Five O

12. Condemned by Provisional Government, sentenced to hard labor: Sentence reduced to home arrest.
13. Wrote best selling memoirs
14. Home used as head-quarters for occupation forces: Seat of US govt after the annexation.

15. Recipient of famous apology: Issued by Pres Clinton 100 years after the illegal annexation of Hawaii
16. Home restored, now a museum.
17. Still mourned 92 years after death
18. Learned English as a child at elite school for royal children
19. Unsatisfactory , loveless marriage
20. Adultery

21. TV show ran over 10 years: Hawaii Five O ran from 1968-1980

22. Eventually, homeland became one of 4 republics absorbed by neighbor:
Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont

23. inherited the throne at age 53
24. Queen Victoria charmed at their first meeting.

[Manuel]

Kelley
are you looking for a person or an event or something else?

[Manuel]

Clues #11,14, 16 ........all Iolani Palace

[Will]

Kelley did it! Yay!

I would have never gotten it, ever. I don't think I ever saw Hawaii Five 0. Charlton Heston played a fictional role in the movie so never considered it. I don't remember a confrontation with the queen, either. I barely remember the movie.

[Jim]

Kelley, thanks for all the explanations & getting the answer to Manuel's clues. Great work!

[Jim]

Kelley, it is the Halifax Explosion, right?

There's a pretty good article on it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_...

[Jim]

Kelley wrote: "It is the halifax Explosion. Was that too easy?"

The combination of the year & the shockwave did it for me. I had looked at some memorable events from the year due to Manuel's clue, so it was fresh in my mind.

I'm not sure difficulty is something to go for. I really enjoy learning about history from the searches. I had read about this years ago & it was fun to read the article, remembering some but mostly learning about it.

Those poor people! To have a disaster like that & then have the heaviest snowstorm of the decade the next day! And the brave train dispatcher & firemen. Thanks for bringing me back there.

[Jim]

Person

1. sixteen different ones
2. safe lamp
3. no descendants
4. Prussian General's name

[Jim]

Good guess, but no, Marco.

[Jim]

Marco wrote: "It is George Stephenson

16 locomotives
safe lamp
no descendants
George"

You got it! Actually the 'Prussian General's Name was "Blucher", the name of his first locomotive.

Interesting guy. Quite the inventor & yet went broke making cast iron rail road tracks after patenting a much better type.

[Jim]

Silicon?

[Will]

I didn't know Strntium was used in fireworks. I do know it is or was used in televisions. I doubt you're right, Kelley, but what do I know?

I suspect "element" may mean an element of surprise, or an element of suspicion, element of infection, etc.

I'm clening house and cooking for tomorrow, so have fun w/o me, and good luck.

[Will]

tantalum...Ta

[Jim]

There's a lot of these rare earths & they're similar. I'll guess:

lanthanum

[Jim]

beryllium?

[Jim]

I'll guess another rare earth, erbium.

I don't get the Cetus clue at all, but all the rest seem to be pointing to one of the rare earths.

[Will]

I'm leaving on vacation. I found this on Wikipedia. the answer may be in there.

According to IUPAC, rare earth elements or rare earth metals are a collection of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, namely scandium, yttrium, and the fifteen lanthanoids.[1:] Scandium and yttrium are considered rare earths since they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as the lanthanoids and exhibit similar chemical properties.

The term "rare earth" arises from the minerals from which they were first isolated, which were uncommon oxide-type minerals (earths) found in Gadolinite extracted from one mine in the village of Ytterby, Sweden. However, with the exception of the highly-unstable promethium, rare earth elements are found in relatively high concentrations in the earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element in the earth's crust at 68 parts per million.

Rare earth elements became known to the world with the discovery of the black mineral ytterbite (also known as gadolinite) by Lieutenant Carl Axel Arrhenius in the year 1787, in a quarry in the village of Ytterby, Sweden.[2:] Many of the rare earths are named for the scientists who discovered or elucidated the elemental properties, or for their geographical discovery, or for Latin or Greek references, or for mythical references:

[Will]

Cetus is a sea monster in Greek mythology, for which the constellation was named.

[Jim]

Radon?

[Will]

Has anyone guessed Erbium?

[Jim]

Yeah, Will. I did in #867. I'm stumped.

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady]

molybdenum?

[Jim]

Marco wrote: "I'm forced to just tell you guys...
...It's Yttrium!
Symbol Y..."

I thought about that several times but figured since you had Ytterbite & Ytterbium down, it couldn't be.

[Will]

Wait a minute! Yttrium was called erbium originally, then it was dissected into white, yellow and red oxides and the names changed, right? Oh, never mind. I'm probably wrong and Kelley is up any way. I'm on vacation; why am I even thinking?

Cerveca maas, por favor?

[Will]

Cerveza, cerveja, or cerveca with the little squiggly thing on the 2nd 'c', which my laptop doesn't have; it's still beer. It's cold and the sun is warm, the sea is cool and the breeze is soft and warm.

[Jim]

I don't usually do it, but occasionally I need to use a one of the international characters or a symbol. I'm too lazy to go find them in the special characters, so I use the OLD method.

Most are ASCII extended characters which are easily created by holding down the left Alt button & typing the decimal number (all 3) into the number pad & it appears when you release the ALT key. It won't work on a laptop or using the numbers above the letters.

If you want to leave a space that the GR editor won't remove, it's ALT 255.

The 'C' with the tail is 135, lowercase, ç or 128 uppercase, Ç.

The table is code page 437 & is here on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_pag...

Some that I like are:
155 ¢   the cent mark
241 ±  the plus-minus mark.
I also use the space a lot. I can never remember which way the dash goes over e's, so I rarely use it, but both are there:
130 é
138 è

Hope this helps some. Careful using anything below decimal 032. They're control characters & can make a printer do funky things. 010 is line feed & 013 is . 007 will make a tone on some machines still.

[Will]

.007 is the James Bond tone? Cool.

[Manuel]

how interesting I can now convert $ into £
and use accent marks for French

[Jim]

I have no clue what the answer is & need to get back to work, but I came across the wildest 'fantasy camp' while looking around. It's called Covert Ops & there is a good article in the top link about it. I never heard of such a thing as a fantasy camp before. Mid-life crisis anyone?
http://www.incredible-adventures.com/...

[Jim]

Geraldine Doyle, the gal that was the model for WWII 'We Can Do It' posters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldin...

[Will]

Jim wrote: "I have no clue what the answer is & need to get back to work, but I came across the wildest 'fantasy camp' while looking around. It's called Covert Ops & there is a good article in the top link ab..."

"Secret Agent Jane is online 9-5, M-F"??? Sounds interesting.

[Jim]

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the LDS? I thought he was 38, not 39 when he died, though.

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21
5. 5 meeting rooms

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21
5. 5 meeting rooms
6. upland farm

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21
5. 5 meeting rooms
6. upland farm
7. conference center

[Will]

Edison gave us 60hz, didn't he? He gave Germany 50hz if I remember correctly. I seldom do. The rest of the clues, I have no idea.

We were going sailing when the wind picked up. If I were a better sailor, I'd not be deterred; I was deterred, though. I said as such at the bar. Da Guys' response was, "Yes, you are." It took me a moment to figure out what they meant.

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21
5. 5 meeting rooms
6. upland farm
7. conference center
8. summer camp

Bonus clue. 2 of these clues, when googled, will turn up a link that links to the person.

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21
5. 5 meeting rooms
6. upland farm
7. conference center
8. summer camp
9. edith

[Jim]

Person
1. clock
2. power grid
3. 60 hz
4. May 21
5. 5 meeting rooms
6. upland farm
7. conference center
8. summer camp
9. edith
10. 'far off' + 'time'