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    #302
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Chlorine killed my uncle there, so in his honour, I'll say Chlorine.


    YES!! well done. discovered by Karl sheal (spelled wrong) weaponised by Fritz haber and then introduced into the water supply after, which saved thousands or maybe millions of lives killing pathogens!


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    #303
    Ted_YNWA
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    Beasty wrote: »
    So I guess they were either assassinated, overthrown or died of stagefright when being sworn in. That points towards Latin America or Africa for me, but who and where are the basic facts I'm struggling with:pac:
    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Yep, you have all the facts there bar the name.

    I won't be online much over the next few days, you can have it Beasty.

    It was Pedro Lascuráin
    On 19 February 1913, General Victoriano Huerta overthrew Madero. Lascuráin was one of the people who convinced Madero to resign the presidency while he was being held prisoner in the National Palace and claimed that his life was in danger if he refused.

    Under the 1857 Constitution of Mexico, the vice-president, the attorney general, the foreign secretary, and the interior secretary stood in line to the presidency. As well as Madero, Huerta had ousted Vice-President José María Pino Suárez and Attorney General Adolfo Valles Baca.[3] To give the coup d'état some appearance of legality, he had Lascuráin, as foreign secretary, assume the presidency, who would then appoint him as his interior secretary, making Huerta next in line to the presidency, and then resign.

    The presidency thus passed to Huerta. As a consequence, Lascuráin was president for less than an hour; sources quote figures ranging from 15 to 56 minutes.[4] To date, Lascuráin's presidency is the shortest in history, even briefer than that of Venezuelan politician Diosdado Cabello in 2002.

    Huerta called a late-night special session of Congress, and under the guns of his troops, the legislators endorsed his assumption of power. A few days later, Huerta had Madero and Pino Suárez killed. The coup and the events surrounding it became known as La decena trágica ("the tragic ten [days]").


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    #304
    OldGoat
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    Wonder if he got a Presidential pension for life? Nice work if you can get it. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #305
    IrishZeus
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    Who was the first person to vote in an election from space?


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    #306
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Who was the first person to vote in an election from space?

    A guy called Wolf (can't recall his first name) from Mir


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    #307
    IrishZeus
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    A guy called Wolf (can't recall his first name) from Mir


    Correct - David Wolf in 1997.


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    #308
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    New Zealand was the 1st country to allow women to vote/ grant suffrage.

    what was the last to do so?


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    #309
    IrishZeus
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    rusty cole wrote: »
    New Zealand was the 1st country to allow women to vote/ grant suffrage.

    what was the last to do so?




    Saudi Arabia.


    Although technically, there is still one country where women cannot vote. Name it? :)


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    #310
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    rusty cole wrote: »
    New Zealand was the 1st country to allow women to vote/ grant suffrage.

    what was the last to do so?

    You're supposed to ask a question when you've got a previous one right. :)

    That was probably Saudai Arabia.


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    #311
    looksee
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    No harm in a few stray questions, keeps the momentum going :D


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    #312
    feargale
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    OldGoat wrote: »
    Wonder if he got a Presidential pension for life? Nice work if you can get it. :)

    Well if the pension were linked to time served it would probably afford him a bag of taytos per annum.

    P.S. Is it taytos or taytoes?


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    #313
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    Ok I see,

    funnily enough I thought it was Switzerland. which is funny because you could legally die there with assistance before you could vote if you were female.
    I'd read that in at least two books before and found it very strange.


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    #314
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Saudi Arabia.


    Although technically, there is still one country where women cannot vote. Name it? :)

    Vatican. No technical about it.


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    #315
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    A follow on. Who is reputed, although sometimes disputed, to have been the shortest serving monarch?


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    #316
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Vatican. No technical about it.

    Correcto


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    #317
    looksee
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    Of anywhere?


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    #318
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    A follow on. Who is reputed, although sometimes disputed, to have been the shortest serving monarch?

    I doubt it's Lady Jane Grey. She got a few days.
    Louis XVI's son?
    The Hapsburg fella who succeeded Franz Josef and tried to set himself up as king of Hungary after WWI and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?


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    #319
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Louis XVI's son. Name and regnal number clinches the deal.


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    #320
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Louis XVI's son. Name and regnal number clinches the deal.

    Louis XVII

    I would have thought he lived quite a while after his father's execution!


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    #321
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Louis XVII

    I would have thought he lived quite a while after his father's execution!

    My apologies. You were so near I misdirected. He married Louis XVI's daughter - his cousin.


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    #322
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    My apologies. You were so near I misdirected. He married Louis XVI's daughter - his cousin.

    We seem to be at cross purposes.

    Louis XVI was executed 21st January 1793.

    Wikipedia:"Louis XVII (27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795), born Louis-Charles, was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

    There were surely shorter reigns e.g. the aforesaid Lady Jane Grey.


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    #323
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    feargale wrote: »
    We seem to be at cross purposes.

    Louis XVI was executed 21st January 1793.

    Wikipedia:"Louis XVII (27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795), born Louis-Charles, was the younger son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

    There were surely shorter reigns e.g. the aforesaid Lady Jane Grey.

    We are. This person reigned for minutes and married the daughter of Louis XVI.


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    #324
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    We are. This person reigned for minutes and married the daughter of Louis XVI.

    Ok. I have it.

    Louis Antoine of France, Duke of Angoulême (6 August 1775 – 3 June 1844) was the eldest son of Charles X of France and the last Dauphin of France from 1824 to 1830. He was technically King of France and Navarre for less than 20 minutes[1] before he himself abdicated, due to his father's abdication during the July Revolution in 1830. He never reigned over the country, but after his father's death in 1836, he was the legitimist pretender as Louis XIX.

    Thanks.


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    #325
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Phew! That's it. Well done.


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    #326
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Phew! That's it. Well done.

    Now I'm not sure if I have played myself out of the obligation to post a question, or if I'm in the same position as Australia's women footballers last night who were deemed winners despite the Brazilian opposition having been erroneously denied a penalty.


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    #327
    looksee
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    Shocking lack of imagination from the French, calling all their kings Louis. Anyway, its an answer (we all knew it was cogged ;) ) so you're up feargale!


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    #328
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    looksee wrote: »
    Shocking lack of imagination from the French, calling all their kings Louis. Anyway, its an answer (we all knew it was cogged ;) ) so you're up feargale!
    Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf beats them hands down though.


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    #329
    New Home
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf beats them hands down though.


    I was just about to say that!





    :pac::pac::pac:


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    #330
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Quick one.


    Who wrote Moby Dick?

    Herman Melville

    I'm trying to think of one. Later. Go ahead somebody.


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    #331
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Herman Melville

    I'm trying to think of one. Later. Go ahead somebody.

    That was answered on 4th April!!!

    :confused:


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