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03-08-2009, 09:42 PM
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Currently? That's the 62 year rule of Thailand by HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX)
All time? Pepi II Neferkare, Egypt's Pharoh for 94 years 2278 BCE to 2184 BCE
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03-09-2009, 05:03 AM
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spot on!
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03-09-2009, 10:03 AM
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What famous American military figure never won the Medal of Honor, but had a brother who won the award twice?
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03-10-2009, 05:03 PM
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Bringing chaos out of order
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grandstander
What famous American military figure never won the Medal of Honor, but had a brother who won the award twice?
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George Armstrong Custer |
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03-10-2009, 06:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by North Beach Person
George Armstrong Custer
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That is correct, North Beach. Boston Custer perished with his more famous sibbling at Little Big Horn, but during his Civil War service, he was twice decorated with the nation's highest award for martial gallantry.
Say....is that North Beach as in San Francisco's North Beach? I lived in SF for twenty plus years, which is why I ask. |
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03-10-2009, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Trudy Rose
"Kill them all.God will know his own"
1. Who said this?
2. What event was this in response to?
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The quote was made, I believe, by the Pope's envoy when troops were sent to purge the so-called heretical Cathars from Southern France. The leader asked how they could distinguish those loyal to the Pope as opposed to the presumed heretics, hence, the quote.
I wonder if the word "cathartic" come from the name of the Cathars? |
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03-10-2009, 06:39 PM
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Sorry, I was behind the curve on Trudey Rose's question. I didn't see that it had been answered.
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03-10-2009, 07:00 PM
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Bringing chaos out of order
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grandstander
That is correct, North Beach. Boston Custer perished with his more famous sibbling at Little Big Horn, but during his Civil War service, he was twice decorated with the nation's highest award for martial gallantry.
Say....is that North Beach as in San Francisco's North Beach? I lived in SF for twenty plus years, which is why I ask.
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Nope, this North Beach is in SoMd along the Chesapeake.
Actually, the Custer who won the CMH twice (in a 3 day period, April 1865) was Tom Custer. At the Little Big Horn his body was so mutilated that the only way he could be identified was by a tattoo. Boston Custer was the youngest of the brothers and was a civilian forage master with the 7th Cavalry.
I'll stop, I'm being pedantic. |
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03-10-2009, 08:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by North Beach Person
Nope, this North Beach is in SoMd along the Chesapeake.
Actually, the Custer who won the CMH twice (in a 3 day period, April 1865) was Tom Custer. At the Little Big Horn his body was so mutilated that the only way he could be identified was by a tattoo. Boston Custer was the youngest of the brothers and was a civilian forage master with the 7th Cavalry.
I'll stop, I'm being pedantic.
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Tom Custer, of course, My error.
It's your turn to ask a question. |
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03-10-2009, 09:16 PM
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I was going to use "tear down this wall" then realized no one would know my wife when we moved into this house.
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it".
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