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Reply #60 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 5:27am

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Will are you sure Elvis is in Iowa? I heard he was working in Tescos in Nottingham! You know the one Lord Lucan is manager of.... Grin

Apparently Emilia is one of the checkout chicks..... Grin

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #61 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 6:17am

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This should settle any controversy for once and for all ...
legends never die - they get abducted by aliens...

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It is a well known historical fact that the Red Baron was abducted by Aliens who left a fake corpse behind to confuse us for 90 years. Von Richthofen is currently living with Elvis, they run a small bar together in Des Moines.

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Reply #62 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 7:14am

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Well Felix you almost won a cookie! Heres what I had in mind for the answers...

1588, Spanish Armarda.

1805 (21 october), Battle of Trafalgar.

1898, Sinking of the USS Maine (I included this one just for you yanks!)

1904, Battle of Tsushima. (First naval battle with modern battleships. The Japanise report led to the creation of Dreadnaught.)

1915 (24 january), Battle of Dogger Bank (Prelude to Jutland.)

1916 (31 may), Battle of Jutland (Clash of the titans. (Now tell me, who won this fight?)

1918, Launching of the HMS Hood. (How could you miss that one? Tongue

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1939 (13 december), Battle of the River Plate. (Graf Spee Scuttled 3 days later.)

1941 (23 may), Hood and Prince of Wales attack Bismark and Prinz Eugan in the Denmark strait. Hood sunk, Bismark and Prince of Wales damaged.

1941 (25 may), Bismark sunk in Bay of Biscay by british capital ships, Rodney and King George V. Also cruiser Dorsetshire participated.

1943 ( 26 december), Battle of North Cape, German Cruiser Scharnorst sunk but HMS's Duke of York, Belfast and Jamaica. (Jamaica was credited with the kill of the Scharnorst as it was thought her torpedos caused her to sink.)

So there you are. Grin

Even Felix got some wrong. Tongue

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Reply #63 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 7:54am

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Will are you sure Elvis is in Iowa? I heard he was working in Tescos in Nottingham! You know the one Lord Lucan is manager of.... Grin

Apparently Emilia is one of the checkout chicks..... Grin

No Ozzy, Ms Monroe and Ex President Kennedy refused to allow a German to work with them. Lucan was happy enough, but he was out-voted.

I have heared that they are forming a conglomerate and going into the cruise business. They have bought their first ship - SS Marie Celeste

Will

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Reply #64 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 10:07am

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Other than HMS Hood (1918-1941) I think I called the rest... Remember - it had been stated in one of the previous posts that investigation determined that the Maine was sunk by an internal explosion, not "enemy action" - as for 1918 - check it out - what I stated still stands... the Brits and Japanese landed troops in Vladivostok in fighting against the Bolsheviks.

Battle of Jutland - Germans won -tactically. The strategic victory went to the Brits, since the Germans never ventured out in force after that.

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Well Felix you almost won a cookie! Heres what I had in mind for the answers...

1588, Spanish Armarda.

1805 (21 october), Battle of Trafalgar.

1898, Sinking of the USS Maine (I included this one just for you yanks!)

1904, Battle of Tsushima. (First naval battle with modern battleships. The Japanise report led to the creation of Dreadnaught.)

1915 (24 january), Battle of Dogger Bank (Prelude to Jutland.)

1916 (31 may), Battle of Jutland (Clash of the titans. (Now tell me, who won this fight?)

1918, Launching of the HMS Hood. (How could you miss that one? Tongue

)

1939 (13 december), Battle of the River Plate. (Graf Spee Scuttled 3 days later.)

1941 (23 may), Hood and Prince of Wales attack Bismark and Prinz Eugan in the Denmark strait. Hood sunk, Bismark and Prince of Wales damaged.

1941 (25 may), Bismark sunk in Bay of Biscay by british capital ships, Rodney and King George V. Also cruiser Dorsetshire participated.

1943 ( 26 december), Battle of North Cape, German Cruiser Scharnorst sunk but HMS's Duke of York, Belfast and Jamaica. (Jamaica was credited with the kill of the Scharnorst as it was thought her torpedos caused her to sink.)

So there you are. Grin

Even Felix got some wrong. Tongue

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Reply #65 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 12:25pm

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Yeah I heard about that Will. I've brought shares in it as they have a great non-refund policy to disatisfied customers, they just err loose them Grin

Which saves me from having to give any of the money back.... Grin

Mark 8)

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Reply #66 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 1:19pm

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OK then, what happened on:
April 24, 1967?
June 29, 1971?

Does anyonwe know?

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Reply #67 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 1:50pm

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Does anyonwe know?

April 24 1967 I was planning a 20th b'day party for my older brother, for the 29th....thats when I heard about Komarov.
June 29 1971 we were all still recovering from my 20th b'day, 6 month s earlier.....

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Reply #68 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 6:04pm

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Its a pity I wasn't conceived at the time of your 20th Ken, it sounds exactly like my kind of bash! Grin

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Reply #69 - Jun 12^th, 2003 at 6:19pm

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April 24, 1967 - Siege of Khe Sahn starts...?

June 29, 1971 - Illinois ratifies 26th Ammendment to the US Constitution providing the right to vote for US citizens 18 years of age or older....

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Does anyonwe know?

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Reply #70 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 10:14pm

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Actually, I was refering to historys first 2 spaceflight disasters. Both were Soviet voyages which resulted in the crews deaths-Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11.

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Reply #71 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 5:27am

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Actually, I was refering to historys first 2 spaceflight disasters. Both were Soviet voyages which resulted in the crews deaths-Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11.

I think this demonstrates Felix's original point perfectly.
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Reply #72 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 6:19pm