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The others seem busy elsewhere, so here you go:freeandfun1 said:I was a bit off on the answer so I will give somebody else a shot. I knew that it is a big holiday in Texas and I knew that it had to do with the end of slavery, but I had the rest of the answer wrong.
USViking said:The others seem busy elsewhere, so here you go:
Question:
Geographic eminence on the Stalingrad battlefield,
the summit of this hill was fought over for months,
with neither Soviet nor German ever gaining firm control.
The commanding Soviet general said of the fighting there:
"There are no witnesses; they did not survive."
dang--there's always a price for being rightUSViking said:Exactly.
I have seen it rendered "Mamai", and "Mamaev".
The summit is now a national shrine,
with a colossal statue of Mother Russia.
Your turn!
dilloduck said:dang--there's always a price for being right
ok What American General was killed by a sniper on Okinawa?
dilloduck said:dang--there's always a price for being right
ok What American General was killed by a sniper on Okinawa?
USViking said:I am going to guess Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner,
the highest ranking US Army officer to fall in WW2.
The account I read had him dying after being hit by a rock fragment from a nearby artillery round explosion.
If a three star general did not make it, then one or more lower-ranking generals may also have been lost, and I do not know of them.
USViking said:Roman poet who spent some time in exile in the Crimea.
I am not sure if it was for political reasons,
or on account of the lewd nature of some of his verses.
USViking said:Sorry, no.
I believe he and Vergil were fairly close chronologically.
Hilter---he did everything bad :teeth:Said1 said:Ok, this is easy, who ordered his exile?
Julius Caesar?Said1 said:Ok, this is easy, who ordered his exile?
USViking said:This Russian poet's reputation is equal in his language
to Shakespeare's reputation in English.
Tragically, he was killed in a duel in the prime of life.
