Ah. Thanks for the name, I entirely forgot it, I think I'll edit it in to the post.Player 2 said:
Wait, what? That really happened?
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I was under the impression that Christmas songs had been around since Christianity - celebrating second-biggest festival in song. The actual wandering-around-singing thing is related to wassailing, and the word 'carol' comes from the old French word meaning a dance.LaughingAtlas said:
Why yes, I did use to be a choir-boy, whyever do you ask?
I'm really not sure how widely known this may be, but during my University course, the one fact that gave me the absolute most delight was a nice little factoid about Stalin. Whenever he gave a speech or what have you, after the speech people would clap endlessly, sometimes for hours. Everyone was so afraid to be the first to stop clapping (Stalin was a very paranoid man) that they just wouldn't stop. In the end Stalin would have to tell them all to stop clapping himself, otherwise they wouldn't.
Pretty sure. Here's what ynet ran on the story:TheIronRuler said:
[link]http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082843,00.html[/link]
I would post something, should there be no Christians on this forum who value it, and wish it to stay that way. So I'm not going to do that, because there probably might be.
The seven deadly sins were originally 8, and were differently constructed than the modern day 7 deadly sins.
They were written down by a monk in approx. 375 CE.
They were written down by a monk in approx. 375 CE.
The Pilgrims were supposed to land in Jamestown, but along the way they hijacked the ship (the Mayflower) and took it north and formed the Massachusetts colony (which was not a legitimate, authorized colony).
Also, according to the show 'America: The Story of Us', the first Thanksgiving feast was to celebrate the successful attack and slaughter of a rival Native American tribe by both the Pilgrims and the tribe that helped them survive.
Also, according to the show 'America: The Story of Us', the first Thanksgiving feast was to celebrate the successful attack and slaughter of a rival Native American tribe by both the Pilgrims and the tribe that helped them survive.
Operation Mincemeat [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat]- a WW2 operation of deception.
The short version; British troops took a dead bum, dressed him in officer uniform and dumped his corpse outside of spain with a briefcase carrying plans to invade Greece and Sardinia instead of the more likely target Sicily. When Hitler moved all his troops to Greece, The Allies waltzed into Sicily unhindered. The British picked up a habit of fooling the Germans with stupid shit like this, and prior to D-day they convinced the Germans they were going to invade Calais, by creating a fuckton of inflatable tanks and leaving them in plain sight around Dover.
From the Cold War, an oddly Fallout-esque weapon- the Davy Crockett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29]. It was a recoilless rifle with a small nuclear warhead stuck on the end, intended to allow infantry to nuke oncoming enemy troops
The short version; British troops took a dead bum, dressed him in officer uniform and dumped his corpse outside of spain with a briefcase carrying plans to invade Greece and Sardinia instead of the more likely target Sicily. When Hitler moved all his troops to Greece, The Allies waltzed into Sicily unhindered. The British picked up a habit of fooling the Germans with stupid shit like this, and prior to D-day they convinced the Germans they were going to invade Calais, by creating a fuckton of inflatable tanks and leaving them in plain sight around Dover.
From the Cold War, an oddly Fallout-esque weapon- the Davy Crockett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29]. It was a recoilless rifle with a small nuclear warhead stuck on the end, intended to allow infantry to nuke oncoming enemy troops
During the 1916 Rising in Ireland (when the Irish rebelled against the British) a group of rebels hijacked a tram but still paid for the tickets. Also, during a battle between the rebels and the British in a park (St. Stephen's Green) there had to be a ceasefire so that the ducks could be fed.
EDIT: Just remembered one about Stalin. Apparently, Stalin kept a parrot in his office in the Kremlin. Anyway, after it began to copy what Stalin said he had it killed. I can't remember the details unfortunately.
EDIT: Just remembered one about Stalin. Apparently, Stalin kept a parrot in his office in the Kremlin. Anyway, after it began to copy what Stalin said he had it killed. I can't remember the details unfortunately.
I knew about that, all hail the history channel.Player 2 said:Operation Mincemeat [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat]- a WW2 operation of deception.
The short version; British troops took a dead bum, dressed him in officer uniform and dumped his corpse outside of spain with a briefcase carrying plans to invade Greece and Sardinia instead of the more likely target Sicily. When Hitler moved all his troops to Greece, The Allies waltzed into Sicily unhindered. The British picked up a habit of fooling the Germans with stupid shit like this, and prior to D-day they convinced the Germans they were going to invade Calais, by creating a fuckton of inflatable tanks and leaving them in plain sight around Dover.
From the Cold War, an oddly Fallout-esque weapon- the Davy Crockett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29]. It was a recoilless rifle with a small nuclear warhead stuck on the end, intended to allow infantry to nuke oncoming enemy troops
in the D-Day invasion the Germans were waiting at another coast, so it took them nearly all day to get their armored divisions into the battle, but by then the armies pushed forward into the mainland and out of the coast.
I know of him too.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
He killed hundreds of enemy soldiers with a bolt-action (mosin-nagant) rifle with iron sights.
It took three hundred years to give the giant tortoise a latin (scientific) name because no specimens ever made it back to London. They were all eaten on the voyage back because they were apparently so delicious. True fact.
In order to throw the Nazis off where the D-day landings were, a phantom army called the 1st U.S Army group was invented and set up near Dover. This included mobile emitters that drove around the countryside creating false radio chatter and inflatable tanks to fool arial reconnaissance.
Odd how most of these examples are war-time ones.
Odd how most of these examples are war-time ones.
Ah, but did you know about the Emu war [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War]? In which Australia declared war on the Emus that were ruining its farms, resulting in the only existing planned incident of organised military forces vs birds.TheIronRuler said:I knew about that, all hail the history channel.Player 2 said:Operation Mincemeat [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat]- a WW2 operation of deception.
The short version; British troops took a dead bum, dressed him in officer uniform and dumped his corpse outside of spain with a briefcase carrying plans to invade Greece and Sardinia instead of the more likely target Sicily. When Hitler moved all his troops to Greece, The Allies waltzed into Sicily unhindered. The British picked up a habit of fooling the Germans with stupid shit like this, and prior to D-day they convinced the Germans they were going to invade Calais, by creating a fuckton of inflatable tanks and leaving them in plain sight around Dover.
From the Cold War, an oddly Fallout-esque weapon- the Davy Crockett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29]. It was a recoilless rifle with a small nuclear warhead stuck on the end, intended to allow infantry to nuke oncoming enemy troops
in the D-Day invasion the Germans were waiting at another coast, so it took them nearly all day to get their armored divisions into the battle, but by then the armies pushed forward into the mainland and out of the coast.