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Author Topic: The Guess-the-historic-event game!  (Read 17632 times)

Jualin

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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #60 on: July 05, 2008, 08:39:17 pm »
2nd is Ceasar's betrayal by Brutus, where he said, "Et tu, Brutus?"

3rd is the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar, where he said, "The die is cast." He was returning to Rome as an invading general.

The other two I can only guess at. I'd think that the first would be either Magellan's trip around the world, or the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems. The fourth might be in reference to the formation of NATO.
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #61 on: July 05, 2008, 11:30:48 pm »
The very first one on the first time is a picture of the time I found a semi-paralyzed eyeless Pac-Man eating a hunk of cheese on my floor. Get out of my thoughts Asheron!
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #62 on: July 06, 2008, 08:45:42 am »
Quote from: Awayfarer on July 05, 2008, 11:30:48 pm
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The second and third are correct. I was looking for something more specific
( the Marshall plan ), but the NATO is also correct.
And look at the flag in the first one + old classic statue, hint hint. What could have possible happened in the classical age in that country? :)
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« Reply #63 on: July 07, 2008, 04:35:03 am »
Alexander the Great was Macedonian, wasn't he?

Is it Alexander the Great's attempted conquest of the world?
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #64 on: July 07, 2008, 11:37:59 am »


GUESSED BULLION

This one is still up. I'm surprised nobody got it yet.
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #65 on: July 07, 2008, 12:11:59 pm »
Quote from: Bullion on July 07, 2008, 04:35:03 am
Alexander the Great was Macedonian, wasn't he?

Is it Alexander the Great's attempted conquest of the world?
Correct!!!

I still have no idea what the dwarf in a Mustang with a snake behind him is all about. :(
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #66 on: July 07, 2008, 12:40:45 pm »
Hint:

leprechaun
car
snake

That it's a mustang is irrelevant.
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« Reply #67 on: July 07, 2008, 05:10:51 pm »
St patrick driving the snakes form ireland.

Although a roman poet wrote about 500 years before "in Ireland (or roman equivalant) there are no snakes."
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #68 on: July 08, 2008, 09:55:20 am »
good job bullion. although the historical event in question was symbolized by that little legend - snakes were symbolic of pagan worship, so when they talked about st patrick driving the snakes from ireland it was probably about his work destroying the native religious practices in ireland to make way for christianity.
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Re: The Guess-the-historic-event game!
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2008, 09:23:35 am »
Another point for Bullion. I would have NEVER guessed that.
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