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Old 10-20-2007, 13:00 PM   #106 (permalink)
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Okay here is the solution:

After the battle (at least according to the story) the Prince wandered over the battlefield and found the dead blind Prince who, when he heart that the favour of the battle was turning against the French, joined it, even though not being able to see anything. The Black Prince was impressed by his courage and decided to use his motto in his own badge. This motto was "ich dien" (German for I serve). Until today it can be found on the badge of the Prince of Wales:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e_of_Wales.svg


The same badge was supposed to be used as the logo for the Welsh Rugby Union until the 1990s when the WRU changed it in order to be able to get a copyright on it they changed it into the form of the picture posted earlier and replaced "Ich dien" with WRU.
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Old 10-20-2007, 13:04 PM   #107 (permalink)
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Okay here is the solution:

After the battle (at least according to the story) the Prince wandered over the battlefield and found the dead blind Prince who, when he heart that the favour of the battle was turning against the French, joined it, even though not being able to see anything. The Black Prince was impressed by his courage and decided to use his motto in his own badge. This motto was "ich dien" (German for I serve). Until today it can be found on the badge of the Prince of Wales:



The same badge was supposed to be used as the logo for the Welsh Rugby Union until the 1990s when the WRU changed it in order to be able to get a copyright on it they changed it into the form of the picture posted earlier and replaced "Ich dien" with WRU.

ah...ok. Toughest question yet...no one got it...ask another..
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Old 10-20-2007, 13:22 PM   #108 (permalink)
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ah...ok. Toughest question yet...no one got it...ask another..
I thought that it would be easy for the brits, (at I in their case would be wondering why the badge of the prince of Wales has a German motte, On my first trip to England I found it quite confusing when I saw it on some coins).

Uh another question:

Why do the people of St. Mere Eglese hang a puppy from their church tower every june?
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Old 10-20-2007, 13:36 PM   #109 (permalink)
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I thought that it would be easy for the brits, (at I in their case would be wondering why the badge of the prince of Wales has a German motte, On my first trip to England I found it quite confusing when I saw it on some coins).

Uh another question:

Why do the people of St. Mere Eglese hang a puppy from their church tower every june?
To represent the American paratrooper who was stuck there on D-Day?
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Old 10-20-2007, 13:46 PM   #110 (permalink)
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Old 10-20-2007, 15:05 PM   #111 (permalink)
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What was the first foreign capital that the United States conquered?
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Does the battle of York count?
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Old 10-20-2007, 15:19 PM   #113 (permalink)
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then my second guess would be Santa Fe 1848.
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Tripoli ?
Tripoli was bombed and blockacked but not invaded. Derne was captured, but it was "only" a provincial capital.
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then my second guess would be Santa Fe 1848.
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What was the first foreign capital that the United States conquered?
Mexico City in 1847.
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Mexico City in 1847.
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mexico city was taken? How could I oversee that??
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