Historic riddles

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  1. Toast Well-Known Member

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    Name this war
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    the Zulu british war?
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    The New Zealand Land Wars.
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    I'm trying hard to think how there were afro natives in New Zealand, I thought that the people in there, the Maori, where more white. I don't know, I would say it's one of the colonial wars in Africa.
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    Mad was right, it was called the Flagstaff War.

    Basically the British moved in, put up their flag, the natives chopped it down. So the British did it again, and the natives chopped it down again. This happened up until the point where they started killing each other over the idea.
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    I'll gladly take his turn, as he likes to search, how about this one :

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    Battle of Lepanto.

    That would probably be because by now Maori blood has been thinned with English and thus also the colour of their skin.
    The Australian government noted that a 4th Generation Aboriginal-British mix was white.
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    ohhh, thanks for the clarification. BTW that naval battle wasn't really hard, it's one of the most famous one, so your turn?
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    I'll keep it easy, was thinking about making it harder but whatever.

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    Who is the man on the right?
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    Walter H Thompson
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    Correct you are.
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    That Thompson guy looks like the Sherlock Holmes from the old black and white movies......
  14. Maddog95 Well-Known Member

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    He was the personal bodyguard of Winston Churchill and quite a bad*ss.
    Travelling over 200.000 miles with him and saving his life at least 20 times and not to forget getting paid £26.400 a month to do so.
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    wow 26.400 thats quite the sallery for back then, hell it would still be a lot today.
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    Oh no! Back then he got £5 a week (roughly £880 in modern terms).
    It also appears I might've made a mistake in my calculations: it's more like £3520 a month. My bad.
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    Who is this?

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  18. RonaldRaygun Futuristic Weapon Wielder/Commie Hunter

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    He's holding chopsticks, the only logical conclusion is that he's Jackie Chan!

    It's Johannes Kepler =P
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    but he doesn't have an awesome mustache like Kepler.
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    Your turn, Ronald.

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