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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by Don't Panic » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:49 am

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Marvin wrote:Cairo??
Maybe for beer money, but not by written order.
BTW, you finally have the right continent.
I'm not googling so this could take a while, but obvious ones in Africa: Tunis? Tripoli? Casablanca?
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Post by FedUpWithFaith » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:50 am

Liberia or Tripoli?

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Post by Don't Panic » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:51 am

Algeria would have been Vichy during the War, did the US or the Brits hit Algiers?
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Post by FedUpWithFaith » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:52 am

That's a good guess Marvin.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:53 am

Marvin wrote:Algeria would have been Vichy during the War, did the US or the Brits hit Algiers?
Oct. , '42. The 1st Infantry Division is ordered to seize the Barclays Bank in Oran.
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Post by Arse » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:57 am

Can we have a question that's not about war?
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Post by FedUpWithFaith » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:59 am

You know Gawd, i searched my ass off on this one - not a clue.

Do you have an online ref? I wanna read it and see how I missed it.

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Marvin wrote:Algeria would have been Vichy during the War, did the US or the Brits hit Algiers?
Oct. , '42. The 1st Infantry Division is ordered to seize the Barclays Bank in Oran.
:woot: Without google. :woot:
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Post by FedUpWithFaith » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:09 am

Blow me.

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Post by Don't Panic » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:27 am

FedUpWithFaith wrote:Blow me.
Anytime sweetness. :Oral_MM:
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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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Post by FedUpWithFaith » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:42 am

Post your goddamn question sweetie. Fellatio can wait. :td:

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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by Don't Panic » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:46 am

Name ten countries that possess nuclear weapons.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:53 am

USA
Russia
China
UK
France
Israel
India
Pakistan
N. Korea
Japan (although Japan's are in tiny pieces - many of them sub-atomic!)
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Post by Arse » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:57 am

US
Britain
France
China
Russia
North Korea
Pakistan
India
Israel
Canada
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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by FedUpWithFaith » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:57 am

South Africa had them too but supposedly dismantled them all.

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