History Challenge & Journal

[lindosfan1]

I do not think Sweden has a border with Russia, I think it could be Finland.

[pharvey]

Didn't it all go back to the American [EDIT] Civil War Revolution?

[pharvey]

Didn't it all go back to the American Civil War?

[EDIT] Not correct answer but where relations started?

[migrant]

Think a dark continent

[migrant]

One of the main battlegrounds is mentioned in the marine corp hymn

[PeteC]

Libya

[dtaai-maai]

Think a dark continent

Well that's obviously Africa. I recently read a series of novels set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, one of which was set in the Med, and specifically in Turkey, the Middle East and the North African states. I seem to remember there was a passing reference to the Swedish navy being involved militarily (not against Britain). I don't remember anything about the USA. I can't be more specific than that.

[migrant]

Sounds like Pete may have it and D-M close. It's the first Barbary war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_W ... centuries.

[PeteC]

On this day in 1982 a person of Royalty was killed, not British.....but perhaps a bit from ancestry? Who?

[PeteC]

Woman, from the USA. Should make it easy.

[dtaai-maai]

In an accident?
EDIT: Yes, of course it was - Princess Grace of Monaco!

[PeteC]

The morning (BST) trophy goes to dtaai-maai.

Grace Kelly dies from car accident injuries, 1982


https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/grace-kel ... nt/zcgqkty. (Video)

[pharvey]

On this day in history: -

400th Anniversary of The Mayflower

Mayflower Anniversary: The Replica Ship That Never Set Sail

"The Mayflower set off on 16 September 1620 from Plymouth - but is widely thought to have been built more than two decades earlier in Harwich, the home of the ship's master and joint owner, Captain Christopher Jones.
Eventually they landed in what they called New Plymouth, in what is now Massachusetts."


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-54055934

History

"Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After a grueling 10 weeks at sea, the Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached America, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod on November 11, 1620."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower

[pharvey]

A world's first, invented in 1917 - what is it, what has it lead to?
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[lindosfan1]

Looking at it, it took off on rails, must have been a buggar to land. Which leasds me to think it was not meant to land and it was the first Kami Kaze flight.