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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:21 pm

Okay, hint: ETO.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:59 pm

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VOLUME III
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HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE
1954
Page 23.

The casualties in killed and injured were not so high as at Hamburg, for big bunkers housing as many as 30,000 had been built in time, and were used. At no moment do the Berliners appear to have lost heart during their ordeal, and they continued to the end to exercise their caustic brand of humour at the expense of their defenders. The cafe wits maintained that flak was not 'a weapon, but an article of faith', and went on to tell the story of Göbbels' encounter one morning with Goring. Hitler, said the little doctor, had hanged himself.' There you are', replied the head of the Luftwaffe,' I always said we should win this war in the air'.
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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:00 pm

Okay, an easy one.

What future admiral and leader of the Navy circumnavigated the world onboard H.M.S. Worcester?
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Gawdzilla wrote:You guys!
Trigger Warning!!!1! :
ROYAL AIR FORCE
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1954
Page 23.

The casualties in killed and injured were not so high as at Hamburg, for big bunkers housing as many as 30,000 had been built in time, and were used. At no moment do the Berliners appear to have lost heart during their ordeal, and they continued to the end to exercise their caustic brand of humour at the expense of their defenders. The cafe wits maintained that flak was not 'a weapon, but an article of faith', and went on to tell the story of Göbbels' encounter one morning with Goring. Hitler, said the little doctor, had hanged himself.' There you are', replied the head of the Luftwaffe,' I always said we should win this war in the air'.
Fuck!!!!!!!!!! How did I not get that one? :banghead:

Actually, I had some notion that it had something to do with aerial warfare, but I was thinking along the lines of the area-bombing policy. :lay:
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Post by klr » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:05 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Okay, an easy one.

What future admiral and leader of the Navy circumnavigated the world onboard H.M.S. Worcester?
Nelson? (there have been a number of ships of that name)
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Post by Geoff » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:07 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Okay, an easy one.

What future admiral and leader of the Navy circumnavigated the world onboard H.M.S. Worcester?
Nelson served on (one of) the Worcester(s) early in his career, but I don't know if he circumcised the world on her.
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Geoff wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Okay, an easy one.

What future admiral and leader of the Navy circumnavigated the world onboard H.M.S. Worcester?
Nelson served on (one of) the Worcester(s) early in his career, but I don't know if he circumcised the world on her.
Was that a Freudian slip, or deliberate? It sounds like one of those stock "history bloopers". :think:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:10 pm

Crap, crap, crap.

I forgot the date, 1875. Sorry. :oops:
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Post by Geoff » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:10 pm

klr wrote:
Geoff wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Okay, an easy one.

What future admiral and leader of the Navy circumnavigated the world onboard H.M.S. Worcester?
Nelson served on (one of) the Worcester(s) early in his career, but I don't know if he circumcised the world on her.
Was that a Freudian slip, or deliberate? It sounds like one of those stock "history bloopers". :think:
Deliberate: Yep, "Drake circumcised the world with a clipper", or similar...
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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by klr » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:13 pm

Geoff wrote:
klr wrote:
Geoff wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Okay, an easy one.

What future admiral and leader of the Navy circumnavigated the world onboard H.M.S. Worcester?
Nelson served on (one of) the Worcester(s) early in his career, but I don't know if he circumcised the world on her.
Was that a Freudian slip, or deliberate? It sounds like one of those stock "history bloopers". :think:
Deliberate: Yep, "Drake circumcised the world with a clipper", or similar...
:hilarious: Yep, that's the one I was thinking of.
Gawdzilla wrote:Crap, crap, crap.

I forgot the date, 1875. Sorry. :oops:
Great. There's no google entry for that ship.

... Togo! You bastard!!!! :pissed:

EDIT: This page http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/naval/p/togo.htm says that although he was on Worcester in 1875, it was on Hampshire that he then did the circumnaviagation.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:14 pm

klr wrote:Great. There's no google entry for that ship.

... Togo! You bastard!!!! :pissed:
Told you it was easy. :coffee:
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Post by Geoff » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:15 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Crap, crap, crap.

I forgot the date, 1875. Sorry. :oops:
The date might fit Togo; I know he studied in England around that time...
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Post by klr » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:19 pm

Identify this ship. No clues.

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but I've seen 'Zilla post attachments with larger dimensions. :dono:
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klr wrote:Identify this ship. No clues.

... damn, getting this message:

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but I've seen 'Zilla post attachments with larger dimensions. :dono:
Tell me what ship it is and I'll post an image. :mrgreen:
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Post by Geoff » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:30 pm

klr wrote:Identify this ship. No clues.

... damn, getting this message:

The image must be at least 0 pixels wide, 0 pixels high and at most 600 pixels wide and 1200 pixels high. The submitted image is 740 pixels wide and 414 pixels high.

but I've seen 'Zilla post attachments with larger dimensions. :dono:
Save it to disk and post as an attachment, I think the limit is only for [img] tags
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