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What year was the Battle of the Falklands Fought? |
1829? |
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10% |
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1914? |
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8% |
[ 4 ] |
1976? |
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8% |
[ 4 ] |
1982? |
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73% |
[ 36 ] |
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What year was the Battle of the Falklands Fought?
Your options are...
1829?
1914?
1976?
1982?
Cast you vote and post your opinon on why you chose the year you did!
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Tue Feb 22 18:48:43 2005 |
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Quote: | Cast you vote and post your opinon on why you chose the aircraft you did!
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Tue Feb 22 20:21:39 2005 |
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LOL!!! Why are you always the one to catch my screwups!
All fixed now... What YEAR did you choose?
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Tue Feb 22 21:15:12 2005 |
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I picked 76 because we've never really learned about it in school, so I am ignorant to modern warfare, I know that it happened in the 20th century and I know that it involved the Brits and the Argentines. To me, 82 seems too recent, but like I said, I am ignorant of such things.
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Tue Feb 22 21:18:31 2005 |
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I guessed that 1982 was the year of the modern brit/argentinian confrontation, but this could be alluding to some obscure battle back in the stone age of modern warfare  _________________

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Tue Feb 22 23:29:18 2005 |
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You may be right... On much of your message...
But then again, you many not be!
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Tue Feb 22 23:59:59 2005 |
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I instinctly chose 1982, since british's Royal Navy in Falklands war used their sea harriers as their pimary fleet defenders. Wasn't that an obivous, british's (tea drinkers... can't resist that kind of jokes.. haha) sea harriers were not in serve at early 1970s until early 1980s while being armed with only sindwinders against mirage IIIs or 2000s. Correct me if I am wrong on this.
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Wed Feb 23 0:27:45 2005 |
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No, you're correct on the Sea Harrier ...
The Sea Harriers and HMS Invincible, commissioned on July 11 1980...
Of course, this doesnt necessarily mean that you are correct on the poll...
I never did say the two were related...
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Wed Feb 23 0:33:02 2005 |
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Eh, I was guessing 1982, but then something told me....
So after searching google, I voted for 1914.
Eh, did you knew that the Falklands were originally settled by my
Acadian ancestors? I had just vaguely heard about that, but when I
saw you poll, CAG, I started searching the web for more infos about that.
Here's a condensed history of that (first) settlement:
http://www.acadian-cajun.com/exfi.htm
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Wed Feb 23 18:34:07 2005 |
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You guys sure do get around...
Good guess, but again, there is no guarantee you are right...
Besides, googling is cheating!
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Wed Feb 23 18:36:55 2005 |
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Ok I think its time to let everyone in on the answer to this poll...
Nearly everyone fell for the ruse and went after the 1982 Falklands War date...
However the Falklands War was not the "Battle of the Falklands"!
When will you guys ever learn how truly tricky I can be...
The correct answer is... 1914!
Battle of the Falkands, 8 December 1914
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/j0600000.htm
The British battle-cruiser HMS Inflexible, a veteran of WW1's Battle of the Falklands.
The British battle-cruiser HMS Invincible, Battle of the Falklands.
http://www.gwpda.org/naval/images/invinciblefalk.jpg
(^--- VERY Large Image of HMS Invincible above!)
So far only FlatulentFox and I have voted correctly!
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Tue Mar 1 18:10:06 2005 |
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DukeB-120th wrote: | but this could be alluding to some obscure battle back in the stone age of modern warfare |
Thats a half a point for that one I think.
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Tue Mar 1 21:46:15 2005 |
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