Art and Monuments
In the painting Scotland Forever!, the cavalry depicted are participating in this battle.
What is Waterloo?
The 1993 “Black Hawk Down” incident occurred in this African city.
What is Mogadishu?
The figure who said: "Government of the people, by the people, for people, shall not perish from this Earth."
Who is Hannibal Barca?
What is just one, the pilot?
This enormous mosque, famously featuring white and orange two-tiered arches atop Corinthian pillars, was in 1236 converted to a Cathedral.
What is the Great Mosque of Cordoba?
This is the last country the People's Republic of China has fought a conventional war with.
What is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam?
The figure who wrote: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
What is Dwight Eisenhower, at the beginning of the Normandy Landings?
This 490 B.C. battle ended the first Persian invasion of Greece.
What is the battle of Marathon?
The M1911 pistol, the M2 .50 caliber machine gun, and the Winchester 1912 shotgun, were all famously developed by this American gunsmith.
What is an arch?
These three nations invaded Egypt after the Suez Canal was nationalized in 1956.
What are Israel, France, and Great Britain?
The figure who (perhaps apocryphally) said this: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Who is Emperor Napoleon, at the Battle of Austerlitz?
This general led the ten thousand home to Greece from Persia, recorded in the Anabasis.
Who is Xenophon?
This Cold War-era U.S. aircraft, first flown in 1981, was nicknamed the “Wobblin' Goblin" for instability at low speeds.
What is the F117 Nighthawk?
Francisco Goya's paintings the Second of May and the Third of May depict which event?
What is the French invasion of Spain 1808?
During WWII, this American Pacific infantry division was the only one to not originally be designated by a number.
What is the Americal division?
The who figure said this: "Yet reflect whether, when you are safe, you would not gladly exchange that safety for death. For as for myself, As for me, I agree with the adage that the royal purple is the noblest shroud."
Who is Empress Theodora, during the Nika Riots?
Emperor Diocletian attempted to end the Crisis of the Third Century by instituting a new form of rulership known by this name.
What is Tetrarchy?
The first operational jet-powered fighter was flown by this nation.
What is Germany during WWII? (ME 262 for those curious).
What is 1920?
Operation Dragoon was a WWII Allied operation in this region of the world.
The figure who said: “For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no monument to preserve it except that of the heart.”
What is Pericles, during the Funeral Oration?
This Republican Roman army formation saw three lines of troops: Hastati in the front, Principes second, and Triarii at the rear, in a checkerboard pattern.
What is the triplex acies?
HMS Dreadnought was the first battleship of its age that featured an 'all big guns' layout, with this many twin 12 inch gun turrets.
What is 5?