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Kosciuszko · Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 255 Location: Poland

Hi guys

Here is small historical tournament -I hope it will be nice opportunity for refreshing this forum....
The rules are very simple :
One person bringing the historical question - this who will brings rights answer can make a new question ( this is award ! )
However after answer such person should wait as her answer is accepted by person who created a question...
IF none will bring correct answer within 3 days - a person who asked can make another question....
Asking person can add later some suggestions and prompt - in case when its clear that question is rather difficult..
Question should be about historical matter - possible to answer for all - so don’t ask for example “ How many girls friends I had in school ?” - this question for most of us is “historical” but answer is rather impossible to find in any books...

Ok. Here is the first question - which is very very easy !
All we know the Epitaph at Thermopylae ( written after the battle ) There is so many translation of it, but most are similar - here u have few examples :

“Four thousand of us fought three million.
When you visit Sparta, tell them:
Here, the soldiers kept their word”

"Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by,
That faithful to their precepts here we lie."

„Stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their words”

The question is : who was author of this epitaph -poem ? I mean what was name of writer ?

regards
kosc
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[HWK]axlethehawk · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject:

nice idea Kos !! Cool

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[HWK]Theosis · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

Simonides of Creos
Wink

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Kosciuszko · Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 255 Location: Poland

Indeed THEO !
Now its your turn to ask the question
regards
kosc
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[HWK]Theosis · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:00 am Post subject:

Hmmmmm, Ok.....

The Sphinx of Egypt...... Myth has it that the Sphinx would ask a riddle of all who wanted to walk by her. If you answered the riddle correctly she would let you walk, if you answered incorrectly she would kill you. Eventually, Oedipus solved the riddle and the Sphinx killed herself.

Here is the riddle: "What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the midday, and three legs in the night?"
Because Oedipus answered it correctly, he became the king of Thebes. After Oedipus gave the right answer to the riddle, the sphinx jumped off a cliff and hit her head causing all different colored blood to gush out. That is how color came upon earth according to the myth.

Oedipus Explains the Riddle of the Sphinx
Jean August Dominique Ingres
Canvas, 1808

Here is the history question..... What is the answer Oedipus gave to the Sphinx

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Kosciuszko · Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 255 Location: Poland

LOL THEO ! I wish to be so clever as hero of your story - and to be able to find the answer using my head not books - however - i was reading this myth few times and i remember the answer no chance...
Answer was HUMAN
Human using 4 legs when is child
Human use 2 legs when is adult
HUman use 3 legs when is old ( 2 legs + wooden stick )

So can go or Sphinx will kill me now ?
regards
kosc
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[HWK]axlethehawk · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:16 am Post subject:

Complete stab in the dark but I'm quite sure I've heard the answer to this before but I can't quite remember the actual explaination. If I am correct then the first person who can post their question after Theo says it is correct can use my turn to give the question.

Is the answer : MAN ?? Cool

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[HWK]axlethehawk · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:19 am Post subject:

hahhahhaa damn , that reply wasn't here just a minute or two before I clicked to reply and what the hell do you know, Kos has it right also.................and thats the explaination behind the theory which I couldn't remember. Laughing

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[HWK]Theosis · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:19 am Post subject:

Correct mate!!

It is your turn now!
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Kosciuszko · Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 255 Location: Poland

Ok m8s
Now II World War Question :

As 17 years boy and volunteer he joined NAVAL Infantry ( U.S. Marines ) and was fighting as member of 4th Division in battles on Marshal Islands and Mariana Islands. In the battle of Saipan in June 1944, he was wounded in the buttocks by Japanese fire which severed his sciatic nerve. HE spend 13 month in hospital. When he died in 1987 was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. USA. His grave is just next to another US actor Joe Louis

This is biography of very very famous actor ( played in 63 movies ) - tell me his name

GL
Kosc
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[HWK]Theosis · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:36 am Post subject:

I suppose that would be Lee Marvin. Not too hard for me... remember I was in the U.S. Marine Corps for 4 years.

Wink

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Sharpe · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:05 am Post subject:

i luv this idea! next question theo! im ready 4 it!
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Kosciuszko · Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Posts: 255 Location: Poland

Bravo Theo you right !
Ask the question m8
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The Countess · Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 221 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Woooow Kos! Brilliante idea, I'm into it. Now whats the next question?
And Theo that was a nice painting...where is you avatar?
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[HWK]Theosis · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject:

Avatar is coming soon.

Here is the history question.... 2 part question.....

In America in the 1800's there was created a new religious group of people.

The were known as Shakers.

The easy part is: Why were they known as Shakers?

The harder question is: Why are there now no more Shakers alive?

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