History Quiz

[iar1]

Correct. Your turn!

[Knaur Amarsh]

Correct. Your turn!

Another question related to the Lesser Moghuls then, name these brothers who rose through the ranks of nobility to become the real power behind the throne during the reign of Aurangzeb's successors.

[dave lukins]

Another question related to the Lesser Moghuls then, name these brothers who rose through the ranks of nobility to become the real power behind the throne during the reign of Aurangzeb's successors.

Jahan??

[Knaur Amarsh]

Jahan??

Nope, might I add that these brothers were considered descendents of Prophet Muhammad which added to their prestige and power?

[Knaur Amarsh]

Meant the Sayyid brothers, open question.

[Kansas Bear]

Name the individual that stood in the snow for 3 days to be pardoned by the pope(name the pope as well)!


Hint: Bismarck said that they would never again go to ............!

[Knaur Amarsh]

Name the individual that stood in the snow for 3 days to be pardoned by the pope(name the pope as well)!


Hint: Bismarck said that they would never again go to ............!

Emperor Henry IV, Pope Gregory VII

[Kansas Bear]

Correct. Your question.

[Knaur Amarsh]

Correct. Your question.

I had to google-fu as I didn't get the hint though, would you please expand on it?

[Knaur Amarsh]

Which Ahom king gave his royal umbrella and royal insignia to his consorts and proclaimed them Big King and why?

[Kansas Bear]

I had to google-fu as I didn't get the hint though, would you please expand on it?

Bismarck stated that "never again will we go to Canossa". It was during the Kulturkampf.

[BD1]

Gang nach Canossa in german - open humiliation.

[BD1]

since this thread has been bit slow lately -

In Soviet mil. history there was one very important* battle in 1918, during which soviet commander went missing and re-appeared only month later 2000 km.s away. Which battle and who is the ´commander´. :)

* - important as it is considered as birthday of a certain organization.

[Mihais]

BD reply

The ''battle'' of Narva and comrade Dybenko.

[BD1]

On February 18, 1918, the German army advanced towards Petrograd. The Lenin-Trotsky government sent Dybenko to defend Petrograd by the force of the Baltic Fleet. The later communist propaganda claimed that revolutionary mariners achieved a great victory there on February 23, 1918. February 23 was declared "The birthday of the Red Army". This day is celebrated in Russia and Ukraine to this day as a national holiday. A special military decoration, "20 years to the Soviet Army" was instituted for this occasion in February 1938. However, this medal was never given to Dybenko himself.
Alexandra Kollontai, People's Comissar Social affairs, Dybenko's wife 1917-1922

The truth is that Dybenko and his mariners, fled the field. According to the memoirs of Bonch-Bruyevich, [4] the mariners came by a barrel of pure alcohol and feasted on it. Their whereabouts were unknown for at least a month. Lenin wrote in his famous article on 25 February, 1918, in Pravda evening edition: A lesson humiliating but neccessarry : Refused to fight,... refused to defend the Narva line, ...failed to destroy everything as they retreated...[5]

Lenin added: From the point of view of the defence of the fatherland it would be a crime to enter into an armed conflict with an infinitely superior and well-prepared enemy when we obviously have no army. ... implying that Dybenko and his mariners definitely were not an army.
Pavel Dybenko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
that was very quick. i thought it would be little harder. Most impressed.

your question.