You’re in the ballpark, so to speak.
I Googled 289 for my own personal knowledge, not for this thread, and found that it seems to be attributed to They.
Admiral Yamamoto, who was eerily prescient (Midway was roughly six month after Pearl Harbor).
287: as Governor Quinn, said, it’s Sir Christopher Wren, but it’s St Paul’s Cathedral.
IIRC, it’s “Si monumentum requiris, circumspice” in the original Latin.
- Not the quote you’re looking for, but it’s very similar to one from Ben Franklin, IIRC, that goes something along the lines of, ‘Unless a man has a strong stomach he won’t want to watch the making of laws, nor sausage.’
- A mermaid, I think. If it had a name, I forget.
- The mummified mermaid (monkey body mated to a fish back end) wasn’t exposed as a fraud until it was x-rayed recently (within the past ten years, IIRC). The fraud I’m thinking of was known to be a fraud at the time that Barnum had his own counterfeit of the fraud made.
- Correct.
- Incorrect.
- Neither is correct.
Correct. And silenus is right about Lord Nelson.
Often attributed, never verified. But it sounds like something he might have said.
- What is the British prime minister’s official country home?
- What is the full name of Canada’s Mounties?
- Revoking the Edict of Nantes allowed resumption of the persecution of the _______.
- German submarines in WW2 had the prefix U-. Their torpedo boats had this one-letter prefix.
- Bismarck said he pursued a policy of “______ and ______.”
- Chequers?
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Hugenots? (French protestants)
- E-
- Blut und Eisen (Blood and Iron)
- P.T. Barnum wanted to exhibit this famous fraud, but the owners denied him the opportunity. So he had his own copy of the fraud made up, and it drew more visitors than the original fraud.
Also the Cardiff Giant, IIRC.
I’d always heard the quote as “People who love sausages and the law should never watch either being made”.
Correctamundo!
You’re probably right. Either way, it’s the sense of the quote that 5 time champ listed, but not the one he mentioned.
“Treaties and sausages should be made in secret” comes from Frederick the Great. At least according to the aforementioned Will Durant, it does. Of course that is a translation from German or French, since I believe Frederick spoke pretty good French.
But obviously the expression has been said many times and many ways throughout history.
And while we are on the subject of quotes. Adm Yamamoto’s quote about “running will for six months. . .” IIRC, is supported. It is the quote in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora " I fear all we have accomplished is to awaken a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve" is not supported in fact.
All correct. Well done! One comedian once called the RCMP “taxidermy’s greatest achievement.”
- These two men were executed by a British firing squad in Pretoria in 1902.
- This small boat gave its name to the official Cuban government news service.
- The sinking of this sub was a major embarrassment to the Putin government.
- Lyndon Johnson hyperbolically compared this man to both George Washington and Winston Churchill.
- The British ruling structure of India before independence was called this.
- Kursk
- The Raj
JFK?
- One of them was Breaker Morant.
- This small boat gave its name to the official Cuban government news service.
Just read this the other day because of Castro’s resignation. Granma
Both correct.
Really Not All That Bright is incorrect as to LBJ’s misplaced praise.
silenus is correct as to Harry “Breaker” Morant, but who was the other man? Half credit.
5 time champ is correct about the Granma.