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Historical Event Game
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Jan 17, 2009 12:27PM
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Susanna wrote: "Well, that's a tragedy to report here, Bettie!"I expect you can imagine just how much my tummy was aching with laughter as I typed that statement out.
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For what it's worth, I think Charles XII of Sweden was in Narva for the battle in 1700, but General Horn presided over the Swedish forces in 1704.
Anyway, this is not an event, but a thing.
1. Requested by Emporer Kang-Hsi.
2. Made in a hurry, resulting in thousands of mistakes.
3. Its initial purpose was to reduce unemployment.
4. It was commonly used for approximately two centuries.
Anyway, this is not an event, but a thing.
1. Requested by Emporer Kang-Hsi.
2. Made in a hurry, resulting in thousands of mistakes.
3. Its initial purpose was to reduce unemployment.
4. It was commonly used for approximately two centuries.
Gunpowder probably works for 1, 2, and 3, but I think 4 rules it out. I think I'll lengthen clue 2.
Marco wrote: "Gunpowder? Probably not. It could reduce employment by killing people :-)"hahahaha
:O))
Chinese opium trade? I know he was the emperor that opened up some ports & I think I read something about a trade deficit. Opium had been in use a lot longer, though. A commercial variety?
Thomas wrote: "For what it's worth, I think Charles XII of Sweden was in Narva for the battle in 1700, but General Horn presided over the Swedish forces in 1704. Anyway, this is not an event, but a thing.
1..."
Does this have anything to do with the canal?
Thomas, are we talking about the K'ang-hsi Dictionary?
Aimee wrote: "Thomas, are we talking about the K'ang-hsi Dictionary?"hello there Aimee - I think/bet you are right
:O)
That's right, Aimee.
That was a hard one Thomas!Let's stick with things...
1. 122 A.D.
2. 117 Km long
3. Segedunum to Soloway Firth
4. Abandoned in 138 A.D.
Kelley wrote: "Is is Charles the XXll of Sweden and Peter the first of Russia in the Great Northern War"Kelley - hello there - I have a favour to ask - will you please issue us a set of clues; I just can't think of a danged thing to ask. Thanks a bunch.
Bettie wrote: "Hadrians wall"
*laughs* I was camped within it's shadow for over a year so that does give me the upper hand
:O)
hello again -Pauline Cushman was born as Harriet Wood in New Orleans
Marco - I'm an ol' critter that has read and LIVED a whole lot and needs not (so far, dot dot dot) to look things up on (spit)google. On the other hand I do lay claim to some reference books that would make the toe nails curl on a youngster such as yourself.No apology is entirely necessary..... this time.
Marco wrote: "I didn't say that you were using Google!!I love reference books!"
Take a tip then, to save yourself from insinuating and imparting what could be construed as the wrong message, tape over your exclamation mark key.
Sunshine to you and yours
yeah - I thought it may be Pauline Cushman.
Marco, is there actually a rule against Google? I don't remember seeing one in this thread until a few posts ago. I find I learn something whether I use Google or no.
Kelley wrote: "It's not Pauline Cushman, but good guess. And I think we should be able to use what ever we want to find the answer."
Hello again Kelley - I have a feeling that we should become GR pals as we obviously like the same sorta stuff. With Pauline Cushman was I near the mark? She became an actress but that's not exactly encapsulated in your description of 'joining a stage show in Europe'
It's not the source of an answer that I have any problem with, it's the passive aggression followed by sly denial - not exactly noble material for the round table but hey - all done and dusted.
Charles StuartAKA
Charles II
1. hemophilia2. grand daughter of Victoria
3. converted religion upon marriage
4. bloody wedding day
Tsar Nicky II's wife, Alexandra Feodorovna (full disclosure: had to look her name up.) If correct, and that's not considered cheating, then:1. Began in Nottingham in 1811
2. Machine-breakers
3. Textile mills
4. Artisans and craftsmen vs early industrial capitalism
The name of the movement is what i'm looking for here.
1. hemophilia2. grand daughter of Queen Victoria
3. converted religion upon marriage
4. bloody wedding day
5. ANOTHER CLUE.....had an overbearing mother-in-law.
Is it Victoria Eugenie, daughter of Princess Beatrice?-Hemophilia in the royal line
-Was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria
-Converted to Roman Catholicism before marrying King Alfonso XIII of Spain (I think, I'm not sure on that one)
-Assassination attempt on her and her new husband on their wedding day
Yes yes,Bravo Alex
Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain
Grand mother to the current king of Spain.
She introduced hemophilia into the Spanish Royal bloodline.
Youngest grand daughter of Queen Victoria, daughter of Princess Beatrice.
Had to renounce her Anglican faith and become a Roman Catholic to marry King Alfonso XIII.
On her wedding day, someone threw a bomb killing several specators and the horses. She arrived at the palace in a blood splattered wedding dress.
One of several of Victoria's grand daughters who carried Hemophilia.
Interesting. Alexandra Feodorovna, last Tsaritsa of Russia, had the 1) family history of hemophelia (thus Rasputin), 2) was a granddaughter of Victoria (through her mother Alice), 3) was required to become Russian Orthodox upon her marriage to Nicholas II (interestingly, not required to renounce Lutheranism), but 4) had a coronation day that could be considered bloody as a number of peasants were trampled to death.
Manuel wrote: "1. hemophilia2. grand daughter of Victoria
3. converted religion upon marriage
4. bloody wedding day"
Tom wrote: "Tsar Nicky II's wife, Alexandra Feodorovna (full disclosure: had to look her name up.) If correct, and that's not considered cheating, then:
1. Began in Nottingham in 1811
2. Machine-breakers
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Luddites?
Luddites is the correct answer to my question, but i answered the previous question incorrectly...
Ok then...1) 44 B.C.
2) Longinus Caius Cassius
3) Marcus Junius Brutus.
4) "Et tu, Brutus!"
(An event...)
The assassination of Julius Caesar.Alex wrote: "Ok then...
1) 44 B.C.
2) Longinus Caius Cassius
3) Marcus Junius Brutus.
4) "Et tu, Brutus!"
(An event...)"
Yep. Too easy? I couldn't think of anything.
A little easy. But I haven't known the answers to most of the others, so maybe it was just easy enough.Now I have to think of something....Give me a minute.
Alex wrote: "Yep. Too easy? I couldn't think of anything."
a. 1825b. DeWitt Clinton
c. Hudson River
d. Sal
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Erie canal? I don't get the Sal reference, though.
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It's a song from the turn of the last century that starts:I've got a mule, her name is Sal,
Fifteen miles on the Erie canal...
Susanna wrote: "There's a horse named "Sal" in an old children's rhyme about the Erie Canal."
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2. over 800 miles
3. over 14,000 people
4. President Andrew Jackson
5. over 4,000 dead by the end of it
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Let's do a person....1. Lord Chancellor of England
2. Act of Surpremacy
3. Canonized 1935
4. Utopia
Sir Thomas More (didn't know he had been canonized, though).This is a place:
1. Founded 910 CE in Burgundy
2. Benedictine abbey
3. Subject only to the pope (and not to secular powers, a reform at the time)
4. Plundered during the French Revolution
1. Founded 910 CE in Burgundy 2. Benedictine abbey
3. Subject only to the pope (and not to secular powers, a reform at the time)
4. Plundered during the French Revolution
5. Founded by William the Pious of Aquitaine
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