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by Don't Panic » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:57 pm
klr wrote:Righteyo. The Gunners go through on a penalty shoot-out. All four English teams through to the QF's of the Champions League. Messrs. Blatter and Platini will not be amused.
Back to the question. Source The Quote time:
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Who, where and when in military history said this? Note that the original language may not be English ...
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France.
(His ancestors settled in France from County Limerick in Ireland...)
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And those Zumwalts are already useless, they can be taken out with an ICBM.
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by klr » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:59 pm
Marvin wrote:klr wrote:Righteyo. The Gunners go through on a penalty shoot-out. All four English teams through to the QF's of the Champions League. Messrs. Blatter and Platini will not be amused.
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Who, where and when in military history said this? Note that the original language may not be English ...
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France.
(His ancestors settled in France from County Limerick in Ireland...)
Also correct. More non-transferrable Internet brownie points to you, my good man.
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by Geoff » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:00 pm
Go on Marvin, you take this turn, I need to wander off for a while!
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by Don't Panic » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:00 pm
klr wrote:Marvin wrote:klr wrote:Righteyo. The Gunners go through on a penalty shoot-out. All four English teams through to the QF's of the Champions League. Messrs. Blatter and Platini will not be amused.
Back to the question. Source The Quote time:
Here I am, here I remain
Who, where and when in military history said this? Note that the original language may not be English ...
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France.
(His ancestors settled in France from County Limerick in Ireland...)
Also correct. More non-transferrable Internet brownie points to you, my good man.
I had to look up who it was, I got the language straight away, j'y suis, j'y reste.
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And those Zumwalts are already useless, they can be taken out with an ICBM.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.
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by klr » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:11 pm
Marvin wrote:klr wrote:Marvin wrote:klr wrote:Righteyo. The Gunners go through on a penalty shoot-out. All four English teams through to the QF's of the Champions League. Messrs. Blatter and Platini will not be amused.
Back to the question. Source The Quote time:
Here I am, here I remain
Who, where and when in military history said this? Note that the original language may not be English ...
Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de Mac-Mahon, 1st Duc de Magenta, Marshal of France.
(His ancestors settled in France from County Limerick in Ireland...)
Also correct. More non-transferrable Internet brownie points to you, my good man.
I had to look up who it was, I got the language straight away,
j'y suis, j'y reste.
Yes, I forgot to mention the original, which is how I prefer to quote it.
Anyway, we await your question,
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by klr » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:58 am
Since Marvin may not be around for a few hours, I propose to throw the question-setting opportunity out to the floor.
Which is another way of saying that I see both Gawdzilla and Geoff online. Either of them can set the next question, but it's first come, first serve.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:59 am
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:52 am
Here's an easy one. Why was the best American fighter of WWII initially rejected by the English?
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by klr » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:56 am
Gawdzilla wrote:Here's an easy one. Why was the best American fighter of WWII initially rejected by the English?
Because the US banned the export of turbochargers, thus rendering the Allison-engined Mustangs useless at high altitude.
... that's completely off the top of my head. Now I'll google it to see if I was right ...
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by Feck » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:58 am
Huge slow automatic lefthand drive and useless around a bend ........oh sorry airplanes
wasn't the war in europe mostly over and we didn't need a new fighter any way ?
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by klr » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:05 pm
klr wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Here's an easy one. Why was the best American fighter of WWII initially rejected by the English?
Because the US banned the export of turbochargers, thus rendering the Allison-engined Mustangs useless at high altitude.
... that's completely off the top of my head. Now I'll google it to see if I was right ...
Well, sort of. Funny how things are never quite as you remembered them - or does history just get rewritten?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-51_Mustang
mrenutt4 wrote:Huge slow automatic lefthand drive and useless around a bend ........oh sorry airplanes
wasn't the war in europe mostly over and we didn't need a new fighter any way ?
No, and yes 'we' did. The Mustang was commissioned relatively early in the war, and by the British, not the US.
EDIT: Joe Baugher has more history on the P-51:
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:12 pm
Take it away, Kevin.
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by klr » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:21 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:Take it away, Kevin.
OK, give me a few minutes. I've just been informed of a bug in one of my search screens
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by klr » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:31 pm
What was the original reporting name for the Kawasaki Ki-61 fighter, and why?
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by Feck » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:38 pm
Tony but I don't know why ?
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