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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:17 pm

Somebody post a question. Or else . . . ( . . . I will. :twisted: )
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Post by Arse » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:14 pm

Gawdzilla, let's see if you can post a history question that has nothing to do with war, battleships, weapons, or fighting. Post a nice, girly question.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:28 pm

ghost wrote:Gawdzilla, let's see if you can post a history question that has nothing to do with war, battleships, weapons, or fighting. Post a nice, girly question.
Can you name the earliest "feminist revolt"?
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Post by Arse » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:35 pm

It was the women rioting for bread at the start of the French Revolution.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:35 pm

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ghost wrote:Gawdzilla, let's see if you can post a history question that has nothing to do with war, battleships, weapons, or fighting. Post a nice, girly question.
Can you name the earliest "feminist revolt"?
Lysistrata?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:36 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
ghost wrote:Gawdzilla, let's see if you can post a history question that has nothing to do with war, battleships, weapons, or fighting. Post a nice, girly question.
Can you name the earliest "feminist revolt"?
Lysistrata?
Hey, that was Ghost's question. :lay:

Now you get to ask a girly question.
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Post by Arse » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:38 pm

That's the right answer? Lysisistra was fictional, I thought you were talking about a real event.
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Post by Pappa » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:42 pm

ghost wrote:Gawdzilla, let's see if you can post a history question that has nothing to do with war, battleships, weapons, or fighting. Post a nice, girly question.
Wow.... that is a challenge. :mrgreen:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:43 pm

ghost wrote:That's the right answer? Lysisistra was fictional, I thought you were talking about a real event.
You'll find out that once in a looooong while I'll post a question that is a bit tricky. :levi:
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Post by Arse » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:50 pm

Harrumph! Right, come on XC a pink, fluffy, girly question.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:11 pm

Why was this poetess was described as the headmistress of a girl's school by Victorian historians, even though she was no such thing?
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Post by Dasein » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:08 am

Sappho?


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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by klr » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:42 am

Dasein wrote:Sappho?


which great Roman Emperor known for his wisdom wrote:
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Marcus Aurelius

... where's Richard Harris when we need him? :shifty:

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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

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Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Why was this poetess was described as the headmistress of a girl's school by Victorian historians, even though she was no such thing?
Dasein wrote:Sappho?
Answer the damn question! :lay:
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Re: The Google-friendly History Question Thread.

Post by Dasein » Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:58 pm

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Why was this poetess was described as the headmistress of a girl's school by Victorian historians, even though she was no such thing?
Dasein wrote:Sappho?
Answer the damn question! :lay:
huh? :? didn't I? No? ain't Sappho? Hmm?
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