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  1. William1

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    As most of us are at school I thought this game might be cool. I saw this on another board.

    In this game, you have to describe an historical event, or person, (no movies, or movie actors, or sports personalities - it has to be genuinely historical) in 35 words, or less, and the person who guesses it correctly, gets the next turn.

    Can I start?

     
    #1 William1, Sep 2, 2006
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    I guess nobody's intrested. Oh well!
     
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    It's an interesting idea, but maybe a bit too intellectual for some of us? Or maybe it's too close to school work for people to think about in their spare time?

    It's a long time since i did history at school and have forgotten most of it, so have absolutely no idea. :frowning2:
     
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    I actually love history, and it's a good idea for a fun ongoing thread, but I have no idea what that could be...my school had to cramp colonialism into about a month so we really just kind of focused on India and Africa as a whole...
     
    #4 suburbs_of_sodom, Sep 3, 2006
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    The Battle of Rorke's Drift?
     
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    Yay, she's right! Good on yer! It's your turn now.:icon_smil
     
    #6 William1, Sep 3, 2006
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    Yeah Willie, i was looking at this thread, but when i tried to be smart for a sec for some reason all i can think about is shopping lol. Maybe when school starts ill dust off my brain but not before. It's happy vegging out and i intend to keep it that way.
     
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    Yah, maybe if the history events were a little easier, you could get more of us to play. I'm not a huge history buff [or major, as i'm in college], so I'm kind of limited on what I know...
     
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    Er... I really have no ideas... someone else want to take a stab at a description? :icon_redf
     
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    OK, but if ppl find even that easy question about Rorke's Drift too hard ... I dunno. :confused:

    Here's a really, really easy one.

    What was the name of the war in which the USA tried to invade Canada and failed three times?
     
    #10 William1, Sep 6, 2006
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    ummm...was it the war of 1812?

    I'm probably completely off, but I'm not in school yet so I haven't done history in 3 months...
     
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    Hey, ur right! Great, it's ur turn now. :icon_smil
     
    #12 William1, Sep 10, 2006
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    YAY!! That makes me happy :icon_bigg.

    Ok, here's a fairly easy one. In 1620, a group of British set sail from Holland, heading for Jamestown, Virginia, but found themselves about 300 miles off.
     
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    But wot's the question? :icon_smil
     
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    Just the event :slight_smile:.
     
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    Total random guess: landing at Plymouth Rock?
     
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    Yes, exactly! Now it's your turn.
     
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    Joey is right, but your clue was totally wrong. :eek:

    The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth which is a UK port on the 6th of September, 1620. :icon_smil
     
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    Ok, well then I guess I have a pretty crappy history teacher...the way she taught it made it sound like they left directly from holland without stopping in England.

    But my clue wasn't totally off the mark, since the Puritans probably didn't make a very long stay in England, seeing as how the reason they went to Holland in the frist place was to flee religious persecution in England. It was a perfect plan...except they didn't quite take into account the fact that there might actually be Dutch people there.
     
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    LOL! Your history teacher is even more crappy than you think. Most of the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were English who had never set foot in Holland. You may be confusing them with the bulk of the Scrooby Separatists who settled in Holland. :icon_smil

    http://brownellfamily.rootsweb.com/Pilgrims1.html
     
    #20 William1, Sep 19, 2006
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