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Historical Event Game
a person1. To this day, still despised throughout Latin America
2. Searching for adventure and wealth
3. Known for his bravado and gile
4. Started by recruiting small group of followers
5. The movie version of his life regarded as one of the worst films ever.
Not Cortes, nor Pizarro nor anyone mentioned in Will's list.
A person1. To this day, still despised throughout Latin America
2. Searching for adventure and wealth
3. Known for his bravado and gile
4. Started by recruiting small group of followers
5. Graduated from university at age 14
6. the movie version of his life regarded as one of the worst films ever.
7. Doctor at age 19
A person1. To this day, still despised throughout Latin America.
2. Searching for adventure and wealth.
3. Known for his bravado and gile.
4. Started by recruiting small group of followers
5. Graduated from university at age 14
6. The movie version of his life regarded as one the worst films ever.
7. Doctor at age 19.
8. Lawyer at age 21.
9. His defeat is still a national holiday.
Augusto Pinochet? Someone reviled, but he apparently went to military school at age 18, so #5, 7, and 8 don't work. And, you say Latin America, not South America. Can't think of what movie either. This is a killer, Manuel!
Anastasio Somoza? Nicarauga is in Latin America.
A person1. To this day, still despised throughout Latin America.
2. Searching for adventure and wealth.
3. Known for his bravado and gile.
4. Started by recruiting small group of followers
5. Graduated from university at age 14
6. The movie version of his life regarded as one the worst films ever.
7. Doctor at age 19.
8. Lawyer at age 21.
9. His defeat is still a national holiday.
10. reintroduced slavery, made ENGLISH the official language.
11. Repulsed and exiled by Mexican troops.
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1. Heir of a whiskey fortune.
2. His toothache led to the formation of the Royal Army Dental Corps.
3. "The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon; two per battalion is more than sufficient."
4. Refused to visit the front lines, "lest the sight of wounded men" affect his judgment.
5. Received a state funeral.
Bravo Susanna!William Walker- American-President of Nicaragua 1856-1857
captured by the British.
executed in Honduras.
April 11-National Holiday in Costa Rica.
I did not know that was a national holiday in Costa Rica and I go there every year.
Oh yeah!!!They really loathed him there
Susanna wrote: "A person:1. Heir of a whiskey fortune.
2. His toothache led to the formation of the Royal Army Dental Corps.
3. "The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon; two per battalion is more than suffic..."
Douglas Haig. An execellent choice, Susanna, but the quote is too easily Googlable.
OK, here goes another person:1. Took the minutes
2. “11 million”
3. Klement
4. Didn’t get off the right bus
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Susanna wrote: ""Took the minutes" - do you mean dictation, or is that a typo, Ted?"No, that's right. "Took the minutes," as in a meeting.
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Ted wrote: "OK, here goes another person:1. Took the minutes
2. “11 million”
3. Klement
4. Didn’t get off the right bus
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Refined clues:
1. Took the minutes at an important meeting
2. "11 million" - an inital estimate
3. Klement - final last name
4. Didn't get off the expected bus
Marco wrote: "Rudolf Klement?"Nope, Marco, that's not right.
OK, I'm trying not to give it away. Instead of adding additional clues, as is customary, let me further elaborate on the current ones:1. Took the minutes at a high-ranking conference
2. "11 million" - a rough estimate
3. Klement - last name (an alias)
4. Didn't get off his accustomed bus
Adolf Eichmann?I seem to remember a movie where he was going to get kidnapped by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires. They were waiting for him to get off the bus
Manuel wrote: "Adolf Eichmann?I seem to remember a movie where he was going to get kidnapped by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires. They were waiting for him to get off the bus"
Yes! Good one, Manuel.
1. Eichmann took the minutes at the infamous Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, the purpose of which was to inform Nazi administrative leaders that Reinhard Heydrich had been appointed as the chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question."
2. "11 million" Eichmann made up a chart listing his estimate of how many Jews inhabited each country under Nazi rule at the time. This was his total.
3. Riccardo Klement was Eichmann's alias in Buenos Aires
4. The Mossad had set up (technically illegal) operations in Argentina. They discvoered Eichmann's whereabouts and watched him come and go for a week. They finally decided to pounce, but on the evening they selected, he didn't get off the commuter bus that he usually did. Insead of scrubbing the operation, they waited and grabbed him as he got off a later bus.
Initially I thought 11 million was a reference to WWI dead.
The clue that grabbed my attention was #4-the bus.
I remember the movie was kind of exciting. The Israeli agent who was going to grab him didnt even speak Spanish, all he knew how to say was.....
"Un momentito, por favor" and he pretended he needed a match for a cigarette.
Not sure of the title
possibly? The Man on Garabaldi Street?
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Susanna wrote: "I think the title is The House on Garibaldi Street, Manuel - it's the title of a book by Hannah Arendt about Eichmann's capture and trial."That's right. An affirmation of "truth is stranger than fiction."
thanks Susanna,I knew it was something on Garabaldi Street.
Every time I travel to S America, Im always surprised at how many local companies have German sounding names. I cant help thinking of who and WHEN they were started.
My Argentine friends still make it into a sort of joke about the Peron era and their reputation.
a person1. photography
2. whips and swings
3. seduction, sex
4. love child(s) secret abortion(s)
Clue #5Intense love affair with young world famous film and stage star.
a person1. photography
2. Whips and swings
3. seduction, sex
4. love child(s) secret abortion(s)
5. Intense love affair with young world famous film and stage star.
6. Served as consultant on the movie about her life.
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Evelyn Nesbit sounds right. I enjoyed this book about her: American Eve Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century.
Somehow I had great faith you would get this one first Susanna!!I was trying not to mention the murder for a while.
Still a great story after nearly a century.
apparently she had a great affair with John Barrymore before she got married,supposedly Stanford White didnt approve of her seeing Barrymore, even though Barrymore was 19 and White was 47 when they slept with her.
White had her shipped off to boarding school and had her abort her pregnancy.
She latter had a child she claimed was her husband's, but he had been in jail during the baby's conception.
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I guess it defaults back to Manuel, huh?
Yikes!give me a while to get something
a person1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
a person 1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
a person 1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
That's no way to speak about someone's mom.
Sorry Jim, Not Winston's mother,
but great guess.
a person 1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
7. Chicken Hash
person 1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
7. Chicken Hash
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
person 1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
7. Chicken Hash
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy
person 1. Iconic Life magazine cover subject
2. Lavish lifestyle
3 Conversion to Catholicism caused a scandal
4. Received Legion d'honneur
5. Proud to be known as F.O.B.
6. Sexual trysts in the Dorchester
7. Chicken Hash
8. Frequently upset the stepkids (both sets); step daughter wrote "tell all" book
9. Rue Boissy
10. Kept the Bentley
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Clue#5
graduated from University at age 14