wiki-illiam q4!
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dubdobdee4.
i. after which action were eleven decorated for valour?
ii. where did the Tidy Pachyderm start his journey to the Limpopo?
iii. who was described by James Arcoll as a sort of black Napoleon?
iv. who replaced Cartwright and caused a quarter of a century’s isolation?
v. who acquainted the Tswana people with the confusing story of Egeon’s twin sons?
vi. who loved honey with a passion that we, with a sweet-shop on every corner, cannot hope to
understand?
vii. who regretted lack of achievement, with so large an outstanding agenda?
viii. who was the victim of a tapeworm’s instruction to a schizophrenic?
ix. which flagship was accompanied by Reijger and Goede Hoope?
x. where was government conducted from a railway siding?
the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this
SPOILERS viz my first stabs at answers
ii: (w/o google) is surely related to the elephant's child in the just so stories viz the "grey green greasy limpopo, all set about with fever trees" -- but i will have to look up where he started
iii: my first thought was toussaint l'ouverture, but i think he was the leader of the "Black Jacobins", which doesn't quite tally
vi: might be pooh bear??
anyway i *THINK* the theme is children's books! which if so i should know more about it!
i. after which action were eleven decorated for valour?
ii. where did the Tidy Pachyderm start his journey to the Limpopo?
iii. who was described by James Arcoll as a sort of black Napoleon?
iv. who replaced Cartwright and caused a quarter of a century’s isolation?
v. who acquainted the Tswana people with the confusing story of Egeon’s twin sons?
vi. who loved honey with a passion that we, with a sweet-shop on every corner, cannot hope to
understand?
vii. who regretted lack of achievement, with so large an outstanding agenda?
viii. who was the victim of a tapeworm’s instruction to a schizophrenic?
ix. which flagship was accompanied by Reijger and Goede Hoope?
x. where was government conducted from a railway siding?
the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this
SPOILERS viz my first stabs at answers
ii: (w/o google) is surely related to the elephant's child in the just so stories viz the "grey green greasy limpopo, all set about with fever trees" -- but i will have to look up where he started
iii: my first thought was toussaint l'ouverture, but i think he was the leader of the "Black Jacobins", which doesn't quite tally
vi: might be pooh bear??
anyway i *THINK* the theme is children's books! which if so i should know more about it!
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rama rama rama tlabama?
Date: 2008-01-07 09:53 pm (UTC)"I realised that to distribute men all along the border would be futile, so Colonel Plumer took the duty of raising his Regiment in Rhodesia, while Colonel Hore organised his at Ramatlabama, sixteen miles north of Mafeking.
The reason for this was that Ramatlabama was in Imperial territory, in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, whereas Mafeking was in Cape Colony, and the Cape Government, being in sympathy with the Boers, would not allow us to raise troops in that territory.
Incidentally this proved a help to our scheme of producing a moral effect on our enemy, since Ramatlabama was to the Boers a dread spot, because it was there that Dr. Jameson had three years previously organised his Raid on Johannesburg.
Thus the forming of a mounted column in this same spot naturally foreboded our making another rush from this place to capture Pretoria and the President.
At least that is what President Kruger evidently thought, judging from his frequent telegrams to his border Commandants in which he repeatedly urged them to watch Ramatlabama.
Ramatlabama was nothing more than a name, a small railway siding; there was no town there."
OTOH it may well be a red herring; "raising troops" =/= "conducting government"? OTOOH, "Ramatlabama" seems suitably obscure for these guys to ask about.