United States Forces Korea (USFK) plan to deploy the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, a war-tested Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV), to the Korean Peninsula as early as July, the Chosun Ilbo reported Wednesday.
The Gray Eagle was first implemented by the U.S. Army unit deployed in Camp Taji, Iraq in 2010. It has retained its popularity among U.S. Army aviation units, as the Army ordered 19 additional Improved Gray Eagles from General Atomics last year.
The USFK public relations office declined to confirm or deny the deployment of the Gray Eagle, or the number of units that might be deployed.
“It seems like the Chosun Ilbo has came up with the news on the Gray Eagle after cross-checking with many other military sources such as the South Korean military’s newspaper, General Atomics’ announcement from November last year and so on. But we cannot discuss anything related to our operational capability,” the USFK told NK News.
The vehicle participated in the ROK-U.S. joint training exercise last August from Kunsan Air Base, South Korea.
During the last year’s joint training, the Gray Eagle provided streamed video and metadata directly to an AH-64 Apache helicopter. The data transmitted to the Apache was re-transmitted to the control terminal, allowing ground forces to share the view of the video captured by the helicopter, according to a previous announcement from General Atomics.
members of the U.S. chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus, which was launched in 1966 by associates of the Bohemian Grove which itself was a spin-off of the Order of the Bavarian Illuminati founded in 1776 to counter both the American revolution and the emerging populist movements in Europe “The Bavarian Illuminati’s own documents were intercepted by police many times – that’s why Encyclopedia Britannica breaks all this down – and they revealed the Illuminati was planned to take over the renaissance and the big, burgeoning liberty movement taking place in Europe and what became the United States,” Alex Jones revealed, who was the first to successfully infiltrate and film the Bohemian Grove. “So they founded the Bavarian Illuminati that later created the Jacobins of the French Revolution to not create revolutions to overthrow the corrupt monarchies and the church but to actually remove them and set themselves up as absolute rulers.”
“George Washington, in his famous anti-Illuminati letters before he died, talked about how they were trying to take over the Renaissance and the liberty movement in Europe and the U.S. and how dangerous the French Revolution became by being run by these people.
“Once they had full control, they socially engineered the public to accept a dictator on the throne of France, which they did: Napoleon Bonaparte,” he added.
And using Bonaparte, the Illuminati exploited France to invade other countries – and that’s the Illuminati model copied today by intelligence agencies and George Soros-funded groups to overthrow Eastern European and Latin American governments.
“They come in, take over grassroots revolutions like the Arab Spring, put their own people in charge and then exploit the country they dominated to take over the next country,” Jones continued. “That’s also how the communists operate because they came out of the Jacobins and the French Revolution – Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx admitted that’s where they came from and they were only codifying the Illuminati plan.”
In other words, the Illuminati model uses a false populist revolution to hijack countries from within.
Members of the Illuminati later founded Skull and Bones, the Yale University secret society, in 1832, and decades later, Skull and Bones member and eventual U.S. President William H. Taft organized the modern-day Bohemian Grove around 1900 after he took it over from American author Mark Twain, who disagreed with much of the esoteric ideology.
And the secret society that was at the resort when Scalia died grew out of the Bohemian Grove.
“This new group that we’re witnessing [the International Order of St. Hubertus] was a spin-off of Bohemian Grove, which itself was a spin-off of Skull and Bones, and which itself was a spin-off of the Bavarian Illuminati,” Jones said.
amygdala where fear is processed orbital frontal cortex or regions where decision making happens people with antisocial personality disorder (often linked with psychopathic behavior) have an average of 18% less volume in the brain’s frontal gyrus. In another study from the Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers compared 27 psychopaths to 32 non-psychopaths and found the psychopaths had less volume in their amygdala–where empathy, fear processing and emotional regulation happens. This study also found that psychopaths have less activity in the area of the brain that processes empathy even though psychopathic brains don’t respond to punishment, they do respond to rewards
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If you slack off w/ your response, everything else can cascade and slack off.
If you're level 500, you can EASILY be defeated by a level 1 player if you slack off.
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The Great White North = Canada
The Land Of The Long White Cloud = New Zealand
Capital of Bermuda = Hamilton
You mistook it and you put Belmopan, when you know that's the capital of Belize
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Nara was the capital of Japan before. Kyoto was the capital of Japan before. Nagoya was the capital of Japan before. Yokohama = never the capital of Japan.
Long before General William Donovan recruited spies to advance the American war efforts during World War II as Director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor to the CIA, General George Washington mastered the art of intelligence as Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Washington was a skilled manager of intelligence. He utilized agents behind enemy lines, recruited both Tory and Patriot sources, interrogated travelers for intelligence information, and launched scores of agents on both intelligence and counterintelligence missions. He was adept at deception operations and tradecraft and was a skilled propagandist. He also practiced sound operational security. Washington fully understood the value of accurate intelligence, employing many of the same techniques later used by the OSS and CIA.
As we celebrate the 284th birthday of the first American President, we highlight some of the tradecraft employed to secure our independence from the British and offer insights on its use today. Were it not for the use of secret writing, concealment devises, propaganda, and intercepted communications, there may have been a very different outcome to the War of Independence.
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SECRET WRITING
Revolutionary War: American agents serving abroad composed their intelligence reports using invisible ink. George Washington believed this would “not only render his communications less exposed to detection, but relieve the fears of such persons as may be entrusted in its conveyance.”
Communicating via invisible inkrequired the use of several chemical compositions. One mixture was used to write with disappearing ink, the other mixture was applied to the report to make it legible. Despite their invisible communications, it is estimated that the British intercepted and decrypted over half of America’s secret correspondence during the war.
CIA: The CIA has declassified several documents that provided recipesfor making invisible ink. One recipe instructs: “Take a weak solution of starch, tinged with a little tincture of iodine. This bluish writing will soon fade away.” A mixture for exposing secret writing included “iodate of potassium, 5 grams, with 100 grams of water, and 2 grams of tartaric acid added” but warned, “run a hot iron over the surface being careful not to scorch the paper.”
During the Cold War, a major advancement in secret writing technology was the shift from liquid invisible inks to dry systems. The KGB was one of the first foreign intelligence services to employ a dry method. The CIA’s Office of Technical Services in the Directorate of Science and Technology spent considerable time researching Soviet systems and finally succeeded not only in “breaking” them, but in anticipating where its KGB counterpart would go next in the never-ending search for more secure systems. By the end of the Cold War, a kind of tacit convergence had emerged as both sides applied new techniques that used very small, almost undetectable quantities of chemical in secret writing messages. In the words of one CIA chemist, it was like “uniformly spreading a spoonful of sugar over an acre of land.”
CONCEALMENT DEVISES
Revolutionary War: Agents used a variety of modified objects to conceal their secret messages. One device was a wafer-thin lead container that would sink in water, or melt in fire, thus destroying its contents. The device was small enough that an agent could swallow it if no other means of discarding were available. This was done as a last resort as ingestion was typically followed by a severe bout of lead poisoning. The lead container was eventually replaced by a silver, bullet-shaped container that could be unscrewed to hold a message and which would not poison a courier who might be forced to swallow it.
CIA: A concealment devise can be any object used to clandestinely hide things. They are typically ordinary, every-day objects that have been hollowed out. The best concealment devises are ones that blend in with their surroundings and call no attention to themselves. They can be used to hide messages, documents, or film.Some examples of concealment devises include hollowed out coins,dead-drop spikes, shaving brushes, and makeup compacts.
PROPAGANDA
Revolutionary War: During the American Revolution, the British had a shortage of soldiers so they hired almost 30,000 German Hessian auxiliary forces to fight against the Americans. The Continental Congress devised a propaganda campaign to encourage the Hessian mercenaries to defect to America. The campaign included offering land grants to those mercenaries fighting for the British on American soil. The offers were written in German on leaflets disguised as tobacco packets. A mock-defector ran through the mercenaries’ camps encouraging others to defect as well. As part of the campaign, Benjamin Franklin forged a letter to the commander of the Hessians, “signed” by a German prince. The letter instructed the commander to let the wounded mercenaries die. This dealt a blow to the morale of the Hessians. Between 5,000 and 6,000 Hessian mercenaries deserted from the British, in part because of American propaganda.
CIA: Propaganda campaigns use communication to alter a population’s beliefs and views thus influencing their behavior. There are three types ofpropaganda: white, black, and grey. White propaganda openly identifies the source and uses gentle persuasion and public relations techniques to achieve a desired outcome. For example, during the Persian Gulf War, the CIA airdropped leafletsbefore some Allied bombing runs to allow civilians time to evacuate and encourage military units to surrender. Black propaganda, on the other hand, is misinformation that identifies itself with one side of a conflict, but is truly produced by the opposing side – like Franklin sending the letter “from” a German prince. Grey propaganda is the most mysterious of all because the source of the propaganda is never identified.
INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS
Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress regularly received quantities of intercepted British mail. General Washington proposed to "contrive a means of opening them without breaking the seals, take copies of the contents, and then let them go on. By these means we should become masters of the whole plot."
CIA: Clandestinely opening, reading and resealing envelopes or packages without the recipient’s knowledge requires practice. ‘Flaps and seals’ opening kits were used in the 1960s. A beginner’s kit offered the basic tools for surreptitious opening of letters and packages. Once mastered, anadvanced kitwith additional tools was used. Many of the tools were handmade of ivory and housed in a travel roll.
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Washington employed the use of many other intelligence gathering techniques still in use today to secure our independence and freedom from Great Britain. Not only is he The Father of His Country, but he is heralded as a great spymaster. Upon the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, a defeated British intelligence officer is quoted as saying, “Washington did not really outfight the British. He simply out-spied us.”
In the streets of Verona another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future.
Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlier seen Romeo moping in a grove of sycamores. After some prodding by Benvolio, Romeo confides that he is in love with Rosaline, a woman who does not return his affections. Benvolio counsels him to forget this woman and find another, more beautiful one, but Romeo remains despondent.
Meanwhile, Paris, a kinsman of the Prince, seeks Juliet’s hand in marriage. Her father Capulet, though happy at the match, asks Paris to wait two years, since Juliet is not yet even fourteen. Capulet dispatches a servant with a list of people to invite to a masquerade and feast he traditionally holds. He invites Paris to the feast, hoping that Paris will begin to win Juliet’s heart.
Romeo and Benvolio, still discussing Rosaline, encounter the Capulet servant bearing the list of invitations. Benvolio suggests that they attend, since that will allow Romeo to compare his beloved to other beautiful women of Verona. Romeo agrees to go with Benvolio to the feast, but only because Rosaline, whose name he reads on the list, will be there.
In Capulet’s household, young Juliet talks with her mother, Lady Capulet, and her nurse about the possibility of marrying Paris. Juliet has not yet considered marriage, but agrees to look at Paris during the feast to see if she thinks she could fall in love with him.
The feast begins. A melancholy Romeo follows Benvolio and their witty friend Mercutio to Capulet’s house. Once inside, Romeo sees Juliet from a distance and instantly falls in love with her; he forgets about Rosaline completely. As Romeo watches Juliet, entranced, a young Capulet, Tybalt, recognizes him, and is enraged that a Montague would sneak into a Capulet feast. He prepares to attack, but Capulet holds him back. Soon, Romeo speaks to Juliet, and the two experience a profound attraction. They kiss, not even knowing each other’s names. When he finds out from Juliet’s nurse that she is the daughter of Capulet—his family’s enemy—he becomes distraught. When Juliet learns that the young man she has just kissed is the son of Montague, she grows equally upset.
As Mercutio and Benvolio leave the Capulet estate, Romeo leaps over the orchard wall into the garden, unable to leave Juliet behind. From his hiding place, he sees Juliet in a window above the orchard and hears her speak his name. He calls out to her, and they exchange vows of love.
Romeo hurries to see his friend and confessor Friar Lawrence, who, though shocked at the sudden turn of Romeo’s heart, agrees to marry the young lovers in secret since he sees in their love the possibility of ending the age-old feud between Capulet and Montague. The following day, Romeo and Juliet meet at Friar Lawrence’s cell and are married. The Nurse, who is privy to the secret, procures a ladder, which Romeo will use to climb into Juliet’s window for their wedding night.
The next day, Benvolio and Mercutio encounter Tybalt—Juliet’s cousin—who, still enraged that Romeo attended Capulet’s feast, has challenged Romeo to a duel. Romeo appears. Now Tybalt’s kinsman by marriage, Romeo begs the Capulet to hold off the duel until he understands why Romeo does not want to fight. Disgusted with this plea for peace, Mercutio says that he will fight Tybalt himself. The two begin to duel. Romeo tries to stop them by leaping between the combatants. Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s arm, and Mercutio dies. Romeo, in a rage, kills Tybalt. Romeo flees from the scene. Soon after, the Prince declares him forever banished from Verona for his crime. Friar Lawrence arranges for Romeo to spend his wedding night with Juliet before he has to leave for Mantua the following morning.
In her room, Juliet awaits the arrival of her new husband. The Nurse enters, and, after some confusion, tells Juliet that Romeo has killed Tybalt. Distraught, Juliet suddenly finds herself married to a man who has killed her kinsman. But she resettles herself, and realizes that her duty belongs with her love: to Romeo.
Romeo sneaks into Juliet’s room that night, and at last they consummate their marriage and their love. Morning comes, and the lovers bid farewell, unsure when they will see each other again. Juliet learns that her father, affected by the recent events, now intends for her to marry Paris in just three days. Unsure of how to proceed—unable to reveal to her parents that she is married to Romeo, but unwilling to marry Paris now that she is Romeo’s wife—Juliet asks her nurse for advice. She counsels Juliet to proceed as if Romeo were dead and to marry Paris, who is a better match anyway. Disgusted with the Nurse’s disloyalty, Juliet disregards her advice and hurries to Friar Lawrence. He concocts a plan to reunite Juliet with Romeo in Mantua. The night before her wedding to Paris, Juliet must drink a potion that will make her appear to be dead. After she is laid to rest in the family’s crypt, the Friar and Romeo will secretly retrieve her, and she will be free to live with Romeo, away from their parents’ feuding.
Juliet returns home to discover the wedding has been moved ahead one day, and she is to be married tomorrow. That night, Juliet drinks the potion, and the Nurse discovers her, apparently dead, the next morning. The Capulets grieve, and Juliet is entombed according to plan. But Friar Lawrence’s message explaining the plan to Romeo never reaches Mantua. Its bearer, Friar John, gets confined to a quarantined house. Romeo hears only that Juliet is dead.
Romeo learns only of Juliet’s death and decides to kill himself rather than live without her. He buys a vial of poison from a reluctant Apothecary, then speeds back to Verona to take his own life at Juliet’s tomb. Outside the Capulet crypt, Romeo comes upon Paris, who is scattering flowers on Juliet’s grave. They fight, and Romeo kills Paris. He enters the tomb, sees Juliet’s inanimate body, drinks the poison, and dies by her side. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters and realizes that Romeo has killed Paris and himself. At the same time, Juliet awakes. Friar Lawrence hears the coming of the watch. When Juliet refuses to leave with him, he flees alone. Juliet sees her beloved Romeo and realizes he has killed himself with poison. She kisses his poisoned lips, and when that does not kill her, buries his dagger in her chest, falling dead upon his body.
The watch arrives, followed closely by the Prince, the Capulets, and Montague. Montague declares that Lady Montague has died of grief over Romeo’s exile. Seeing their children’s bodies, Capulet and Montague agree to end their long-standing feud and to raise gold statues of their children side-by-side in a newly peaceful Verona.
Source is Sparknotes http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/summary.html
Germany deployed Zeppelins during WW1 During "Christmas Truce" of 1914, soldiers from each side played games of Soccer 2010, Germany finally paid of WW1 reparations The Treaty of Versailles limited the Germany army to 100,000 men April 1917, the month in which USA declared war on Germany Peter Ustinov - Father fought as WW1 figher pilot in Germany Ireland - Lusitania sunk off the coast of Ireland
World War 2 After seizing the French archives, Nazis destroyed master copy of Treaty of Versailles Highest award for bravery in the US, is the Medal Of Honor Operation Overlord - code name for the Invasion of Normandy by the Allies Jean-Louis Darlan - French Admiral & commander of the Vichy fleet Marianas Turkey Shoot - Battle Of the Philippine Sea Romania - joined Tripartite Pact in late Nov 1940 Appeasement - Britain & France's policy towards Germany in the lead up to WW2
Star Wars Luke Skywalker grew up on Tatooine "Join me and I will complete your training" In "A New Hope" what happens to Luke's Aunt and Uncle after Luke finds Obi-Wan = killed by Storm Troopers Yoda lifts his X-Wing from the swamp in "The Empire Strikes Back" that shocks Luke Reek is what Anakin rode in "Attack Of The Clones" Episode 3 - Anakin returns to what news from Padme - "That she is Pregnant" Imperial Center - official name of planet wide City Coruscant during Galactic Empire, Star Wars
Star Trek Jeffrey Combs - Thylek Shran in Enterprise Denobulan - Dr. Phlox in Enterprise Vorta - Weyoun in Deep Space Nine Leonard Nimoy - Mr. Spock in original series 178 - episodes, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" George Takei - Mr. Sulu in original series Mr. Woof - In Star Trek: The Next Generation what Mrs. Troi calls Woof
Shakespeare Juliet belongs to Capulet house 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare Hamlet is set in Denmark, by Shakespeare Elizabeth I was British monarch when Shakespeare was born Enobarbus provides a poetic description of Cleopatra's barge Virgillia is the name of the title character's wife in "Coriolanus" Julius Caesar - an anachronistic Shakespeare play which depicts the tolling of a clock, centuries before such clocks were invented
Boxing - WBA - A is for Association Robert De Niro - is Jake LaMotta in the film "Raging Bull" 1986 - Mike Tyson became youngest World Heavyweight Champion Dempsey VS Tunney - two boxers were involved in "Battle of the Long Count" in 1927 Ukraine - Klitschko brothers originated from Ukraine
Golf - 7
Dog - A hole with a fairway that bends is usually described with reference to which animal Green - color jacket that winer of Masters golf tournament traditionally wears Red - Tiger Woods traditionally wears on the last day of a golf tournament Golf - Eugenio Saraceni changed his name to Gene Sarazen and became a legend in golf Fuzzy Zoeller - defeated Greg Norman in a play off to win 1984 US Open Hootie Johnson - former Chairman of Augusta National was known for his battle w/ militant feminist Martha Burk He wears two golf gloves - American golfer Tommy Gainey is known for this unusual custom
Baseball Carlos May's bday is May 17, wore #17 Jersey Philadelphia Phillies, only MLB team with a bell in its logo 42 - Mariano Rivera was last active major leaguer to wear what number Mel Ott - first Giant to hit 30 home runs in a season Jessie Orosco - entering 2014, holds the record for most games pitched Bob Gibson - in 1968, threw 13 shutouts and set a record with an ERA of just 1.12 Ty Cobb - 1909, lead the American league with all of 9 home runs all of them inside-the-park
Animals Indian Cobra does not have feathers Tigress is the female ver of Tiger Lion is the only cat with a mane Elephants were often used in War
Llama is the domesticated ver of the guanaco Leveret is a young hare in its first year
Geography Red, white, green Italian flag Himalayas, mountain range that stretches 2400km westward from a peak called Nanga Parbat to one called Namcha Barwa
Burj Al Arab is in Dubai Germany has The Black Forest Hong Kong, Disney opened a theme park on Sept 12 2005 Georgia is named after St. George
Royal Mile is a famous street in which capital city = Edinburgh
Romeo and Juliet = Young Love Montague = Romeo's family Juliet = Capulet
Capulet's gives a party, Romeo and his friends attends the party
The only Allied country who won but paid compensation was the USA, to Japan. In 1988, under the Civil Liberties Act, U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, apologized to the Japanese-Americans interned in camps during World War II and agreed to pay $20,000 to each surviving former detainee.
At the conference on German External Debts, in London, 1952, Germany's post-war debts were written down to just under 7 billion deutschemarks (worth about $3 billion at today's currency rates) from 16.2 billion deutschemarks, whilst its pre-war debts were reduced to 7.3 billion deutschemarks,
Additionally, Germany had to relinquish the country's power and divide itself initially into four Allied-owned zones, which were demilitarized and removed of their weaponry.
On January 14th 1946, in Paris, two forms of reparation were set up for the allies, in forms of shares: all reparations including funds, and those in the form of 'industrial and other capital equipment'. The U.K., U.S., France and Yugoslavia were the biggest shareholders.
On top of that, Germany signed an agreement on September 10th 1952, confirming that West Germany would agree to pay 3 billion deutschemarks to Israel in instalments and 450 million deutschemarks to the World Jewish Congress, a federation which represents Jewish communities, over 12 years.
Similar to the situation with Greece, Israel's finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, announced in 2009 that he wanted Germany to pay between 450 million to 1 billion euros in reparations for Jews forced into slave labor during the Holocaust – despite the fact that Germany had paid off their allocated debt to Israel.
While it remains unclear on how much Germany originally owed and how much it has to pay back now – given interest on top of the original loan and countries claiming they haven't been paid enough – one writer has hazarded an estimate. According to Pablo De Grieff, author of "The Handbook of Reparations", by September 30th 1965, Germany had paid $4.5 billion, which rose to a total of more than $38.6 billion by 2000.
Japan
For Japan, paying back its WWII reparations were more complicated. After WWII, it was estimated that by the Allies that Japan had lost 42 percent of its national wealth. Therefore in 1951, Japan signed a treaty to which would work for both sides.
Signed in San Francisco 1951, the 'Treaty of Peace with Japan', meant that "Japan will transfer its assets and those of its nationals in countries which were neutral during the war, or which were at war with any of the Allied Powers, or, at its option, the equivalent of such assets, to the International Committee of the Red Cross which shall liquidate such assets and distribute the resultant fund to appropriate national agencies."
In total, Japan's government agreed to make a payment of $6.67million to the International Red Cross, as compensation to former prisoners of war.
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Christopher Gerteis, Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan, at the SOAS, University of London, told CNBC via email, that "the amounts paid, though seemingly small, were negotiated and paid during the 1950s. Indeed, most East and Southeast Asian governments consider the matter of reparations closed.
"What is important to note here is that an significant minority of South Koreans and Chinese do not accept these reparations as adequate – no matter what agreements have been signed. It is a complex issue, fraught with legal, moral, and historical concerns that strike deep at those who choose to think about it."
There are other countries that had to pay reparations as part of the Paris Peace Treaties agreement in 1947.
Italy ($360 million)
Italy was one of the main Axis Powers alongside Germany and Japan. Under a peace treaty, it was required to pay $125 million to Yugoslavia, $105m to Greece, $100m to the Soviet Union, $25m to Ethiopia and $5m to Albania.
Finland ($300 million)
Out of all the countries that were required to pay reparations from World War II, Finland is the only one known to have paid its bill in full when it sent $300 million to the Soviet Union in 1952.
Hungary ($300 million)
Under a peace treaty, Hungary was required to pay $200 million to the Soviet Union, and $100m to Czechslovakia and Yugoslavia.
Romania ($300 million)
Under a peace treaty, Romania had to pay $300 million to the Soviet Union, for the damage it caused with its "military operations". According to the treaty, it was to be made "payable over eight years from September 12, 1944, in commodities."
Bulgaria ($70 million)
Bulgaria was asked to pay $45 million to Greece, and $25m to Yugoslavia. For the full $70 million, the treaty said it was to be made "payable in kind from the products of manufacturing and extractive industries and agriculture over eight years."
1. World War 1
WW1 began in Europe
1917, Germans introduced mustard gas
Versailles treaty ended WW1
Grenade came in Jam Tin variety
Nivelle, French commander in charge during Battle of Verdun
Turkish tried to capture it - Suez Canal
Turnip Winter - I cannot imagine a worse, more depressing situation than to be an average german on the homefront during the Turnip winter of 1916-17. As the police reports indicate, the people where between a rock and a hard place. "The mood can only be described as very bad...the discontent in the population has reached a new intensity...the attitude of women toward the war can be summarized as 'Peace at any price.' (66)" First the government rations the bread, and provides potatoes instead. Then, potatoes by 1916 become increasingly difficult to find legally, so the only alternative become turnips. As Fritzsche points out on pg 69, over 28,000 copies of "Turnips Instead of Potatoes" were published in newspapers and cookbooks during this awful time in German history. I have never eaten just turnips, or turnip soup, but if that was all I could eat, for months at a time, without meat, bread, potatoes, or hardly any sugar or chocolate to consume either, I could not be a happy camper- to say the least. On top of the terrible eating situation, Fritsche continues by adding that "the winter turned out to be the coldest in memory...35,000 households in Nuremberg simply ran out of coal before the winter ended... 175,000 men and women died of influenza in the year 1918." I just canot fathom a worse living quagmire than to not only be able to eat hardly anything, not be able to keep yourself warm, and to sit back and read daily reports of how the war was not going germany's way any longer. This shows how devoted the people were to not only the war, but to their country, and for that these poor souls should be recognized for enduring one of, if not the worst living conditions possible in all of german history. There is just no way I could have been able to survive through that horrible turnip winter.
German M-16 Stahelm were helmets 1st used in action in Verdun
2. World War 2
1937 Italy withdrew from League of Nations
Eva Braun, name of Hitler's Wife
1945, German instrument of surrender signed
Hiroshima, first City atom bomb was dropped
1944 - year of Warsaw Uprising
6 billion leaflets Allies dropped on Europe during WW2
8 German Panzer divisions took part in the December 1944 von Rundstedt offensive
3. Star Trek
Captain Kirk in Orig Series = William Shatner
Neelix = cook and morale officer
Leonard Nimoy, played Spock in Original Series
The Ferengi was not pursuing
The Cochrane
Tuvok had an orchid named after him
Guardian of Forever
4. Shakespeare
"Et tu, Brute?" Julius Caesar said that
Anne Hathaway - wife of Shakespeare
England was were Shakespeare was born
The Winter's Tale = A Dance of Twelve Satyr's
Bard of Avon = Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus - first of Shakespeare's plays
Italy and France = setting of All's Well that Ends Well
5. Baseball
42 number that Dodgers and every other Major League team retired in honor of Jackie Robinson
National League Central, division of Cincinnati Reds
George Brett - entering 2014, holds Royals' record for hits in a career
Willie Mays - only National League batter to hit at least 50 home runs in a season during the 1950s
Jackie Robinson - first Rookie of the Year winner to later win a league MVP award
Jackie Robinson again - first former Negro Leaguer to win an MVP award
Mike Schmidt - entering 2014 who holds Phillies' record for hits in a career
6. NBA
Zach Lavine
8
Thunder
Darryl Dawkins
Chris Paul
82 games in an NBA Season
Christian Laetner
7. Boxing
Joe Frazier's nickname = Smokin' Joe
20 Mike Tyson's age when he became youngest ever
Tavoris Cloud, lost his last 3 fights in a row after winning his first 24
Amir Khan - defeated Andreas Kotlenik to win WBA Light Welterweight title in 2009
Anders Eklund - Frank Bruno defeated him in 1985 to become European Heavyweight Champion
Stuart Hall is from Great Britain, he's the former IBF Bantamweight World Champion
8. Geography
Patagonia = large region of South America shared by Chile and Argentina
A loaf of bread symbolizes France to many people, Baguette
London = Wembley Stadium
Bhutan = Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary as a way to protect the Yeti
New Hampshire = Maine Borders two Canadian Provinces.. the only US State to border exactly one other State.
Russia = You can ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad..
117 man made islands found in a 200 square mile lagoon
9.
David Copperfield - Who befriends James Steerforth and is raised by Betsy Trotwood in the Charles Dickens novel bearing his name
Hester Prynne - forced to wear a red letter "A" in "The Scarlet Letter"
Anna Karenina - "Happy Families are all alike; every unhappy in its own way" is from what 1877 novel
Mr. Hyde - Dr. Jekyll's alter ego in Robert Louis Stevenson novel
Great Expectations - title of 1860s coming-of-age story about an orphan named Pip
Rudyard Kipling - wrote "The Jungle Book"
Robert Louis Stevenson , wrote 1886 novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
10.
Augusta - where is US Masters golf tournament held every year
US Open, The Open, US Masters - 3 of the 4 majors
Phil Mickelson plays Left Handed - these golfers play left handed
1985 British Open -
Gene Sarazen
Tiger Woods
Illinois
WW2
Mussolini - A dictator who ended up hanging by his feet from an Esso station in Piazzale Loreto, along w/ his mistress
Nuremberg - Trials of Leading Nazis held
Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Britain through
Heinrich Himmler - Minister of Interior in Germany
Prinz Eugen - only German ship to survive WW2
Unit 731 - Japanese unit researched and conducted biological attacks on Chinese people
German Weather Ship - "Busch" in WW2
WW1
The Battle of Verdun took place in France
Treaty of Versailles = name of Treaty which ended state of war between Germany and Allied Powers
Schliefen Plan = name given to the German plan to invade France by marching through Belgium
1918 = Kaiser Wilhelm 2 abdicated in this year during the War
Haig insisted on using this untested weapon for the first time at the Battle of Somme = Tank
Battle of the Marne ended the success of this plan by Germany - The Schlieffen Plan
Music : General (3rd Cat)
The Moon, 2015 song "Shut Up and Dance"
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Whitney Houston, in 1992 had a hit w/ their cover of Dolly Parton's 1973 song "I Will Always Love You"
Paul McCartney, replaced Kurt Cobain at the Nirvana reunion at 2012 12-12-12 concert for Hurricane Sandy Relief
Elton John - as a duet w/ Kiki Dee, had a hit w/ "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Bjork - dressed as a Geisha for the "Homogenic" album cover
Science - 4th Cat
Electric current usu measured in Amperes
Precipitation Condensation Evaporation - water cycle
HCL = Acid Compound
Divergent - Boundary when two plates move away from one another
Vector - Anorganism,suchasamosquitoortick,thatcarriesdisease-causingmicroorganismsfromonehosttoanother
Philosophy
Plato's "apology is about Socrates' trial
Thoreau values TRUTH the most
Bertrand Russel
Aristotle believed Music had no practical application
George Berkeley
Neuroscience
Central Nervous System - CNS
Bursitis is NOT a mental disorder
Alcohol suppresses neural activity in the brain, producing a sedative or hypnotic effect
Marijuana - causes problems in memory in the hippocampus when used long term
12 pairs of thoracic nerves are in the spinal column
Stress and Depression hastens death of neurons
...look at all options first before you pick an answer...
7th category
Carnivore - animal that feeds mainly on flesh of other animal
Toad is an amphibian
Kangaroo is native to Australia
Gnu = Wildebeest
Numbat = Australian animal lives exclusively on a diet of termites
Puffer Fish = Marine Animal second most poisonous animal on the planet
Television Shows - 8th
TNG = Star Trek Next Generation
Hikaru Sulu
Captain Tiberius Kirk
Gamma Quadrant - The Only Place The Defiant may use Cloaking device
Betazed - the planet Deanna Troi comes from in Star Trek Next Generation
Jack The Ripper was responsible for murder when Scotty was accused of it, in Star Trek: The Original Series
On Deep Space Nine, what is the original Cardassian name for space station Deep Space 9
Terok Nor
TV SHOWS - 9th
Melmac - ALF came from this planet
Red - color of Magnum's Ferrari
Sam Malone - character played by Ted Danson in "Cheers"
Jessica Fletcher - main character in Murder She Wrote
Orphanage - "Hi-De-Hi".. Paul Shane's character of Ted Bovis was brought up as a child here
Colorado - American state of Colorado was where TV Soap "Dynasty" was set
Kristin Shepard shot JR
Shakespeare - 10th
Ophelia is the girl who drowns herself in Hamlet
Hamlet - there is something rotten in the State of Denmark
Macbeth - "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble"
Macbeth again - Spirit Like a Cat is a listed character appearing in this Shakespeare play
Alehouse - The Induction of "The Taming of the Shrew" takes place here
King Of France - marries Cordelia in "King Lear" despite her father's decision to disinherit her
Plague - Shakespeare wrote poetry in 1593 and 1594 when theaters were closed because of the plague
(stand out word or object theory - that's what people pick in a multiple choice question)
11th
Mu is a fictional continent popularized by James Churchward
Equestria - fictional land in my little pony
Mos Eisley - name of desert town in Star Wars
Brigadoon - fictional Scottish town which appears briefly every 100 years
Darkover - fictional planet
Hillwood - Hey Arnold set in this fic city
Trantor - capital of the Galactic Empire in Asimov's "Foundation" series
1. Shakespeare Quotes
Hamlet - "To be or not to be, that is the question"
Romeo and Juliet - "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Othello - Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone
Julius Caesar - Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Richard The Second - The purest treasure mortal times afford is a spotless reputation
Hamlet - Sweets to the sweet, farewell
Hamlet - Come give us a taste of your quality, come, a passionate speech
2. Star Trek
USS Voyager Chakotay is First Officer
Rom and Nog is Ferengi species in Deep Space Nine
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek
Robert Picardo played the Doctor in Voyager
Anthony Montgomery played Travis Mayweather in Enterprise
Developing cloaking technology is how USS Pegasus conspired to violate the Treaty of Algeron in Star Trek the Next Generation
Mogh is Worf's natural father
3. Science
Greenwich is at Zero Degrees of Longitude
They don't grow - Lichens indicate air pollution by doing this
3959 miles far below the ground (sea level) would the center of the Earth be
Polaris - The North Star is also known as
Bears - Animals of the Ursidae family
50 seconds - it takes to make 100,000 vibrations if a tuning fork has freq of 2000 Hz
Osmosis - what term describes the balancing of water molecules from higher to lower pressure, across a semi permeable membrane
4. Baseball
1908 famous song was written by Jack Norworth but he didn't go to his first baseball game 'til 1942
Didn't go to a baseball game till 1942
New York Mets, in 2012 Johan Santana pitched the first no-hitter
It's a home run - a hit ball bounces off the foul pole and into the field
Matt Williams - first player to hit a World series home run for 3 diff teams
San Diego - Ted Giannoulas created a chicken who cavorts at sports events in San Diego
Mark McGwire - in 2014, holds Athletics' record for home runs in a career
5. NBA
47 Blake Griffin's career high
Magic Johnson - started at the center of game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals as Lakers clinched NBA title
Tim Duncan won 2 times, NBA MVP award
How many games was the Knicks playoff losing streak that ended 2012
Tyreke Evans
Patrick Beverley = winner of 2015 All Star Weekend Skills Challenge
Pacific = Phoenix Suns play in which NBA Division
Oscar Roberston, Michael Jordan, Lebron James averaged 20+ PPG, 5+ APG, and 5+ RPG as rookies. Who else has done this? = Tyreke Evans
6. Animals
Turtle returns to the beach
French Gnome = NOT
Blue eyed white cats are deaf
All of these
Tree Snake = boomslang ysnake, a name originating in Afrikaans and Dutch
Breeds of Rabbits are Britannia petite, French gnome, American sable
A method of cane toad control in Australia is urgently needed. Chemical control, legislative control, and biological control is needed.
7. Philosophy
Our mind - Descartes believe we can know this most intimately
Humanism - there's inherent goodness and nobility in the human spirit
Socrates - "As for me, all i know is that
Kurt Godel - proved the famous incompleteness theorems
Parmenides - ancient Greek philosopher who was not a member of the Ionian school
"all bachelors are unmarried" - Analytic a priori
Appearances - In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant refers to as "intensive magnitudes" and "extensive magnitudes"
8. World War 2
Belgium's King Leopold III spent much of WW2 as a prisoner in his own castle
Soviet Union lost the most people in WW2
Enola Gay B-29 dropped the atom bomb
Europe was most devastated by WW2
UK was lead by Winston Churchill
Allies and Axis
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa - Demon Of Rabaul
Tours - French Gov't surrendered it to Germany
Das Schwarze Korps - Official Weekly Newspaper of the SS
Hong Kong - a British territory captured on Christmas Day 1941
9. US Presidents
Bill Clinton is 42nd Pres
Dick Cheney is Vice Pres under George Bush
JFK youngest elec Pres
Thomas Jefferson first elec press by house of rep
Calvin Coolidge had Vaseline rubbed on his head in the morning
Chester A Arthur - The Gentleman Boss, nickname
Chester Alan Arthur
10. US States
Wisconsin - abbr. WI
Washington shares border with Idaho and Oregon
New York has cat skill mountain
United Arab Emirates is the third one, after Yemen and Oman
1st Round - Star Trek
Borg's Repetitive War Cry = Resistance is Futile
Pon farr - "The Time of Mating" in Vulcan
1995-2001 Star Trek reincarnation = Voyager
Arthuris in Voyager = Ray Wise
Sir I must protest, I am not a Merry Man = Worf
How many colonists were there on Omicron Theta? 411 colonists
On this Star Trek Voyager episode, Chakotay met a young Kazon boy = Initiations
2nd Round - NBA
Shaquille O Neal - hosts the NBA blooper feature "Shaqtin' a Fool"
Brooklyn Nets - Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson, Shane Larkin
Dwight Howard - Rockets 12
James Harden - West All Star in 2013
Alvin Gentry - New Orleans Pelicans hired him as their head coach after 2014-2015 Season
Kyrie Irving - scored a 2014-2015 season high for the league w/ 57 points
Mike Budenholzer - 2014-2015 NBA Coach of the Year
3rd Round - Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona is a title for a Shakespeare Play
Out damn'd Spot = Lady Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet = Two Households both alike in dignity in fair Verona
Yo mama Joke = Act 1, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens
25 = number of sons Titus Andronicus have
Milan = "The Tempest" Prospero is Duke of Milan
Fluellen = "Eat My Leek" in Henry V
4th Round - Baseball
First Base - 12 year old Kathryn Johnston becomes first girl to play Little League at this position
He bats fourth - A manager having one of his best hitters batting "clean up"
Rickey Henderson - holds Athletics' record for stolen bases in a season, entering 2014
Tony Fernandez - entering 2014, holds Blue Jays' record for hits in a career
Miami Marlins - in 2012 moved into a brand new ballpark in Little Havana
Larry Robinson - not one of the Robinsons who won the baseball MVP award, but won a Norris Trophy
Jose Canseco - first player in history w/ 40 home runs and 40 steals in same season
5th Round - Literature
Charles Dickens wrote a Tale of Two Cities 1859
The Picture of Dorian Gray, title of 1891 Wilde Novel about a dashing young man who sells his soul to remain young while his portrait ages
Oliver Twist - Please Sir, I want some more
Compeyson - a professional swindler who fights w/ Magwitch and drowns
Phileas Fogg - makes the wager that he can travel the world in 80 days
River Thames is featured in "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens
Jo is short for Josephine in "Little Women"
6th - Science
Dogs hear better than humans
Ammeter measures electric current
Calorimeter measures amount of Chlorine
Eniac name of first digital computer
Mariner, Pioneer, Ranger names of US Space mission
Static electricity causes dust to collet into dust bunnies
Aberdeen Angus is a type of Cow
7th - Computer Science
Apache is A in LAMP Stack
Object Oriented Design - Unified Modeling Language or UML, used in this area
Original 802.11 wireless protocol as well as wireless 802.11 b/g/n all broadcast at 2.4 GHZ frequency
An IPv6 address can have 2 types of formats, one is Normal or Pure and the other is Dual
HBase is NOT an example of RBDMS
Visicalc is a Spreadsheet, one of the popular products in 1970s
A mathematician that has a functional programming language named after him: Haskell Curry
8th - Philosophy
Hedonism - thinks highest and greatest good is pleasure
Dualism - view that mind or soul and body are two separate things
Relativism - what's true for you is false for me
Thomas Hobbes - believes State of nature is war against all
Hume argues that principle of induction can neither be an a priori truth or an a posteriori fact
Karl Marx took Hegel's ideas and turned them upside down
9th - Colleges
University of Florida has a gator as a mascot
Business is most popular major
Duke University is in North Carolina
Columbia University is in New York
University of Arizona has a Blue, Red and White in A logo
The New School is located in New York
Bruin is UCLA's mascot
10th - Movies: General
Andy Stitzer - 40 year old Virgin
Shower, Marion Crane was killed in "Psycho"
James Cameron was brought on for ideas to stop oil spill for 2010 Gulf of Mexico
Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire's co-star in "Top Hat" dancing w/ him in such classics as "Cheek to Cheek"
Collin Farrel played a down on his luck screen writer involved in a dognapping in 2012 movie, "Seven Psychopaths"
Adrien Brody, won a Best Actor Oscar for the film "The Pianist"
June 6, 2006 - release date for 2006 version of "The Omen"
1st Quiz
Kierkegaard uses the example of G-d telling Abraham to kill his son as an example of the absurdity of life
Kant said moral laws apply to all rational beings
Richard Wagner shared a relationship with Nietzsche, he praised his "The Birth of Tragedy"
Russel said Philosophy aims for Knowledge like all other studies
Duhem-Quine thesis - in Philosophy of Science, it's impossible to test a scientific hypothesis in isolation
Ludwig Wittgenstein made use of a fire poker in confrontation w/ Karl Popper
Ludwig Wittgenstein quit his profession to become a village school teacher
2nd Quiz
Clouds are mainly made of water
Grapes grow on a vine
Plants have Chlorophyll
Mercury and Bromine are liquid at room temp
Vitamin C is ascorbic acid
9.8 m/s2
Hippocrates = Father of Modern Medicine
So I beat the top 10 in Science: General for Pakistan, I was level 2 and she was level 54.
3rd Quiz
Louis Armstrong - Jazz Performer
1930s - Great Depression
The Bill of Rights, first 10 const amendments
Alabama
1850s Handcart Migration, Mormons went to Utah
4th Quiz
Israel certified its stamp as Kosher
Kyoto is anagram of Tokyo
Heivetia - NOT a name for Switzerland
Switzerland has 3 main official languages ..
these are names for Switzerland: Suisse, Svizzera, Schweiz
Lake Superior - Westernmost and Northernmost of the Great Lakes
5 at least
Atlas - an Ocean and a Mountain range named for him
1,400 fountains in the garden of Palace of Versailles
Zimbabwe as a country is named for the ruins that were once capital city of Monomutapa Empire
"Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono" Hawaii's motto
China has one time zone
6
Chile and Argentina shares Patagonia
River's current meets the sea's tide = Estuary
1707 - Scotland politically unified with England and Wales to form the Kingdom of Great Britain
Lebanon only country in Middle East w/ no desert
4 States in the United States has a border w/ Mexico
Brazil's flag depicts the night sky of Rio de Janeiro as seen on Nov 15 1889
Long Island is the largest island in the continental United States
Yellowstone - US national park created by a massive volcanic eruption 600,000 years ago
Grand Duke, monarch of Luxembourg is referred to by what title
Tahiti is located in French Polynesia
Darfur is in Sudan
7th
Chile is around 12 times longer from North to South than it is from East to West
London has Wembley Stadium, a national football stadium located in London
Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia all have borders on Black Sea
Pakistan means "Land of the Pure" in Urdu, it was coined in 1933 by Choudhary Rahman Ali in his pamphlet "Now or Never"
Russia used to cover more of Earth's surface, covers 11% of it as of 2011
Antarctica - The Queen Maud Mountains and the Weddell Sea are features found on which continent
Montana
1ST GAME
Triangle on a map - means Mountain
Great Sandy Dessert, Great Dividing Range - Australia
Argentina's language is Spanish
Charles Bridge - longest bridge built in Middle Ages in Europe
El Paso is named because it's a ford across what Texas river
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is w/ Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Paris-Dakar's rally's traditional finishing point is Dakar
2ND GAME
Shanghai is China's largest city by population
Lines of latitude are lines that run parallel to the equator
Half of St. Martin is French and the other Caribbean
Colombia and Panama - The Darien Gap is an undeveloped break in the Pan-American highway
Baroque - Palace of Versailles is an example of this architecture
Paris, Texas - 60 ft high w/ a red Cowboy hat
Maui - 1992, 30,000 Hawaiians petitioned to change the name of Maui to Gilligan's Island
3RD GAME
Amazon River - The Rio Negro, Jurua River and Madeira River.. some of the 1000 tributaries of a major river
Astha - world's 1 billionth person
Russia - Trans-Siberian Railroad
Indian Ocean - Zambezi River in Africa flows into Indian Ocean
Argentina and Chile - Patagonia traverses into these two South American countries
Martinique - Mt Pele is in Martinique
Nova Scotia does not border the United States
4TH GAME
Australia celebrates Xmas in Summer
Brazil - only Portuguese speaking country in the Americas
Mount Olympus is highest peak in Greece
Copper named after Cyprus where it was mined in Roman Era
Prince Orange - Heir Apparent to the Dutch Throne
Amsterdam's symbol is "xxx", three crosses
Islamabad capital of Pakistan along w/ Rawalpindi, makes up its 3rd largest metro area
5TH GAME
Pacific Ocean - Largest body of water on Earth
Mascara, once capital of Turkish province of West Algeria
New Zealand has Stewart Island, its 3rd largest island
Wyoming has Yellowstone Park, 1st nat'l park established in the United States
Saudi Arabia population is 29 million
Russia has Lake Baikal
Uganda until 1962 has the capital of Entebbe
6TH GAME
Yukon runs through the center of Alaska and shares its name w/ a territory of Canada
A baguette
John Donne is an island in the Irish Sea and so is Isle of Man
Gypsies
Isle of Man
Minnesota has International Falls which is Icebox of the Nation
Strassbourg is NOT in Germany
7TH GAME
New Zealand has Maori
Arabian Peninsula has Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Sana'a, Muscat
Wales has a "Red Dragon Flag" includes a red dragon called Y Ddraig Goch
China has the world's biggest crashing bore, a tidal bore in the Qiantang River at Hangzhou Bay
Aral Sea is in Kazakhstan
Lesotho's Flag has a hat
Italian forces invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and annexed the country the following year, but their unwelcomed stay was relatively short-lived, as the World War II Allied powers liberated the country in 1941. Anglo-Zulu War (1879, in Southern Africa) The British defeat of Zulu King Cetshwayo’s forces marked the end of an era of powerful Zulu kings. It also resulted in the Zulu kingdom being incorporated into British colonial holdings, eventually as part of the province of Natal, which later became the modern-day South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Sotho peoples’ victory over the Cape Colony is one of the few examples in Southern African history of black Africans’ winning a conflict with colonial powers in the 19th century. It’s also the reason why the country of Lesotho is surrounded by the country of South Africa, rather than being a part of it: because Basutoland (as Lesotho was then known) remained independent of the Cape Colony, it was not included when that colony and three others formed the Union of South Africa in 1910.
South African War (1899–1902, in Southern Africa)
DeA Picture LibraryThe war between Great Britain and the Boer (Afrikaner) republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, which ended with British victory and annexation of the two Boer republics, is noteworthy for several reasons. Here are just a few:
-It was the largest and most costly war that the British fought during the 19th century.
-It provided a preview of the type of warfare that would come to characterize World War I.
-It was a war fought between two groups of white peoples—the British and the Dutch-descended Boers—in a subcontinent with a largely black African population that both sides generally sought to exclude from the fighting, although black Africans were certainly negatively impacted by the conflict.
-The two annexed Boer Republics would, with the British colonies of Cape and Natal, later form the Union of South Africa in 1910, the forerunner of today’s Republic of South Africa.
8TH QUIZ
Patagonia is a large region in South America shared by Chile and Argentina
Spanish and Portuguese as you know, is spoken in Latin America
Indonesia has Krakatoa vo
West Bengal
Istanbul both in Europe and Asia
Himalayas = House of Snow
Dar el Bayda
West Bengal is an Indian State renamed Porschim Bongo
Himalayas = "the House of Snow" in Sanskrit
Casablanca is called Dar el Bayda in Morocco
9th quiz
Argentina - gets her name from the Latin word for Silver
Channel Tunnel connects UK and France, it's 50 km long
Lemur only real one native to Madagascar in "Madagascar" movie
Niagara River tumbles over Niagara Falls
Uruguay
Cote D’Ivoire - doesn't border Central African Republic
10th Quiz
Great Barrier Reef - Pacific Ocean
Africa's highest peak is Mount Kilimanjaro
United Arab Emirates has The World Islands, a collection of 300 artificial islands off its coast.. as luxury accomodations
The Sunshine State - The US State of Florida and the Australian state of Queensland share this nickname
Manila
Carnaby
Pacific Ocean - you can find Great Barrier Reef in it
Manila is the largest city on the island of Luzon
When Archery became an Olympic sport in the 1972 games, it was held in Munich
11th Quiz
Australia largest country that starts w/ A
Sri Lanka, tear drop of India
Himalayas, 19 of the 25 highest peaks are here
Macedonia, Southern most of the former Yugoslavian Republics
Saint Malo, most visited city in Brittany which has highest ratio of sea food restaurants in Europe
Long before General William Donovan recruited spies to advance the American war efforts during World War II as Director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor to the CIA, General George Washington mastered the art of intelligence as Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
CIA: The CIA has declassified several documents that provided recipes for making invisible ink. One recipe instructs: “Take a weak solution of starch, tinged with a little tincture of iodine. This bluish writing will soon fade away.” A mixture for exposing secret writing included “iodate of potassium, 5 grams, with 100 grams of water, and 2 grams of tartaric acid added” but warned, “run a hot iron over the surface being careful not to scorch the paper.”
Revolutionary War: Agents used a variety of modified objects to conceal their secret messages. One device was a wafer-thin lead container that would sink in water, or melt in fire, thus destroying its contents. The device was small enough that an agent could swallow it if no other means of discarding were available. This was done as a last resort as ingestion was typically followed by a severe bout of lead poisoning. The lead container was eventually replaced by a silver, bullet-shaped container that could be unscrewed to hold a message and which would not poison a courier who might be forced to swallow it.
CIA: A concealment devise can be any object used to clandestinely hide things. They are typically ordinary, every-day objects that have been hollowed out. The best concealment devises are ones that blend in with their surroundings and call no attention to themselves. They can be used to hide messages, documents, or film. Some examples of concealment devises include hollowed out coins,dead-drop spikes, shaving brushes, and makeup compacts.
CIA: Propaganda campaigns use communication to alter a population’s beliefs and views thus influencing their behavior. There are three types ofpropaganda: white, black, and grey. White propaganda openly identifies the source and uses gentle persuasion and public relations techniques to achieve a desired outcome. For example, during the Persian Gulf War, the CIA airdropped leafletsbefore some Allied bombing runs to allow civilians time to evacuate and encourage military units to surrender. Black propaganda, on the other hand, is misinformation that identifies itself with one side of a conflict, but is truly produced by the opposing side – like Franklin sending the letter “from” a German prince. Grey propaganda is the most mysterious of all because the source of the propaganda is never identified.
