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You may proceed. ...historic celebrity: predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides. "Agamemnon" being one of his plays. Introduced Second Actor. =Aeschylus ...contemporary celebrity: Journalistic curiousity caused his downfall. Ended long and painful war. = Richard Nixon ...contemporary celebrity: Iron maiden who lead the "angles". Won a southern mini-war. = Margaret Thatcher Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-22-2005 at 10:12 AM. |
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11-21-2005, 06:18 PM | #462 | |
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11-22-2005, 12:49 AM | #463 |
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Aeschylus and Euripides... you must know Homer and b'lieve me Bo
Sophocles also Sappho-Ho. - Cole Porter, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" Journalistic curiousity caused his downfall. Ended long and painful war. Richard Milhouse Nixon? Iron maiden who lead the "angles". Won a southern mini-war. Maggie Thatcher
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11-22-2005, 03:46 AM | #465 | |
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11-22-2005, 10:22 AM | #466 |
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...literary character:
Cool lady of quality who destroyed her land. ...ancient celebrity: Ferocious lady of quality who gathered the kelts and fought the Latins. = Boudicca ...historic celebrity: Young maiden who gathered the gauls. Had visions. = Joan of Arc ... famous 19th century battlefield: General of the Alliance (Angles, Goths, Flemish). Generals of the Goth army and of the Gaul. = Waterloo. Generals Wellington, Blücher and Napoleon Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-22-2005 at 01:09 PM. |
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The witch queen person in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe? Boudicca? (though even allowing for poetic licence she wasn't an Angle!) Joan of Arc? Waterloo - so the Generals would be Wellington, Blucher and Napoleon?
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11-22-2005, 01:05 PM | #468 | |
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11-22-2005, 01:16 PM | #469 |
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...famous WWII battlefield:
Dropped in the wrong place and the wrong time. An almighty cock-up. = Arnhem ...famous WWI battlefields: An almighty cock-up at an asia minor coastline. = Gallipoli Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-23-2005 at 12:46 PM. |
11-22-2005, 02:32 PM | #470 |
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...WWII failure to notice:
Greenery thought to be good protection. Obviously not in hindsight. = Hedgerows in Europe or Jungle in Burma ...WWII failure to notice: Enemy flat-tops lying in wait not seen at all. = Pearl Harbour Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 11-23-2005 at 12:45 PM. |
11-22-2005, 04:25 PM | #471 |
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WWII Faliure to notice: Those killer hedgerows (not sure if that translates right) in the german/european countrysides, never knew WHO was behind them.
WWII Battlefield near river: Blitz over the river Rhine? There were a few massacres around that area.
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Gallipoli. Now that WAS a cock-up
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...WWII failure to notice:
Enemy flat-tops lying in wait not seen at all. Pearl Harbor?
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11-23-2005, 12:53 PM | #478 |
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...Korean War circumvention:
General goes around and hit enemy troops rear. ...WWII failure to notice, Western Europe: Waiting in the front only to have enemy come from the side. ...WWII Great Atlantic chase: Enemy supership sank another supership later sunk by massive cannonades. ...WWII Staying in the closet: Enemy supership approached and damaged by midgets later sunk by aircraft. |
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The Maginot Line outflanked by the panzer thrust through the Ardennes The Bismark, sunk HMS Hood before being sunk itself The Tirpitz, damaged by the more-or-less suicidal X-Craft then finished off by Lancasters
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