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352. Ernest, Lord Shackleton.
353. Endurance, which I always found more ironic than appropriate, considering that it couldn’t endure.
354. Elephant
To give something back:
Who was first to reach the South Pole?
What was the name of the ship he used for that expedition?
Who said, “I’m going out for a walk. I may be a while.”?
What were the circumstances?
Who lead a disastrous Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the late 1840s?
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Correct.
Ah, but the expedition endured! Correct, anyway.
Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww.
Roald Amundsen.
Norge.
You got me there!
The guy was one of the last remaining men in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed “race to the South Pole” party. He knew he was a goner and didn’t want to be a burden on the rest of the party, so he walked out into the night and was never seen again.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
352. Correct.
353. Ah, but the expedition endured! Correct, anyway.
354. Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww.
Roald Amundsen.
Norge.
You got me there!
The guy was one of the last remaining men in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed “race to the South Pole” party. He knew he was a goner and didn’t want to be a burden on the rest of the party, so he walked out into the night and was never seen again.
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Correct on 355, and 356. 358, you’ve got the circumstances mostly right - he was the first of the pole party to die, he was weakening faster than the others, and apparently decided to remove himself from being a burden in their attempt to walk back out of the interior.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
357. Who said, “I’m going out for a walk. I may be a while.”?
Who lead a disastrous Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the late 1840s?
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? Owens
Frobisher? (There was a PBS special several years ago, about the finding of three crewmembers bodies preserved in the permafrost. Apparently the whole crew was driven insane by metal contaminents used for the solder of their tinned food.)
Frobisher? (There was a PBS special several years ago, about the finding of three crewmembers bodies preserved in the permafrost. Apparently the whole crew was driven insane by metal contaminents used for the solder of their tinned food.)
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These are both wrong, though the NOVA special you’re talking about was about the three known graves from the expedition.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
354. Correct. They’d step on the heads of convicted bad guys. Ewwww.
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I did not see this in time, or else I’d have guessed it. But ya know what? I’ve never really heard of this. I don’t think it was common. Beheading seem to have been the rule.
My copy of Brewer’s attributes it to Napier.
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I looked at my copy of Brewer’s. In the entry under the phrase ‘to cry Peccavi’ it notes the standard attribution to Napier. It then goes on to say that this is incorrect and that the pun was actually the work of:
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I did not see this in time, or else I’d have guessed it. But ya know what? I’ve never really heard of this. I don’t think it was common. Beheading seem to have been the rule.
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I learned about the head-squashing a few years ago in a documentary about elephants. Seemed like a well-researched, reputable show, FWIW.
Cunctator is correct about Queen Anne being the last British ruler to veto a bill.
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I learned about the head-squashing a few years ago in a documentary about elephants. Seemed like a well-researched, reputable show, FWIW.
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Oh, I’m not doubting you. That just doesn’t seem to be widely known here. I suspect it was used only for special occasions. Mostly it’s been beheadings. But King Taksin was put in a velvet sack and beaten to death with sandalwood in 1782; the reason for that method was the belief that royal blood should not touch the ground.
In recent times, it’s been by machine gun. They switched to lethal injection a few years ago.
