Fact or Crap!

Malte279 · **Reply #120 on:** July 25, 2006, 03:03:27 AM

Fact or Crap: in an election of 1790 in Pennsylvania German missed by only one vote to be made the official language of the United States of America (instead of English).

Malte279 · **Reply #121 on:** August 05, 2006, 03:40:53 AM

You are correct that it is incorrect

The legend exists however and was particularly popular among German immigrants to the United States. It is called the M¸hlenberg legend. The historical core of it is is a vote in the United States House of Representatives from 1794, where a group of German immigrants asked for the translation of some laws into German. This petition was rejected by a 42:41 vote and the German born Delegate of Pennsylvania, Frederick August Conrad M¸hlenberg decided the vote with his decision against the translation of the laws. He was later quoted as "the faster the Germans become Americans, the better it will be".
German immigrants even got their own translation of the American national anthem, but to many descendants of German immigrants these attempts to "cling to German roots" ended with the beginning of WW1, when sauerkraut was renamed into "liberty cabbage"

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Your turn arboldin

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #122 on:** August 05, 2006, 11:21:04 PM

crap!

Malte279 · **Reply #123 on:** August 06, 2006, 04:01:15 AM

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It happened on July Fourth.

If you are talking of D-Day as the landing in the Normandy, it was on June 6th. No independence day landing.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #124 on:** August 26, 2006, 09:23:19 AM

fact or crap the first wourd war was the first war where airplanes were used.

Malte279 · **Reply #125 on:** August 27, 2006, 03:57:45 PM

Crap. Though they were used for the first time to a really significant effect planes had been used before (1911) in a war between Itay and the Osmanic empire for both reconnaisance and dropping bombs (which had no big effect however).

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #126 on:** August 27, 2006, 11:19:02 PM

correct. your turn malte

Malte279 · **Reply #127 on:** August 28, 2006, 04:39:00 AM

Staying withing airial warfare, it was the Austrians who first made use of ballons in war. During the battle of Fleurus (French Revolutionary wars), they used a ballon to observe the French troop movements.

Malte279 · **Reply #128 on:** September 21, 2006, 10:55:39 AM

Fact or Crap?

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #129 on:** September 21, 2006, 10:25:42 PM

fact?

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #130 on:** September 22, 2006, 01:18:19 AM

Quote from: Malte279,Aug 28 2006 on 03:39 AM

Staying withing airial warfare, it was the Austrians who first made use of ballons in war. During the battle of Fleurus (French Revolutionary wars), they used a ballon to observe the French troop movements.

Fact or Crap?

I'll go with crap. I'm sure there were a few others before that.

Malte279 · **Reply #131 on:** September 22, 2006, 03:53:57 AM

It's crap.
Indeed balloons were first used in the battle of Fleurus (1794), yet it was the French, not the Austrians, who used them.
Your turn pokeplayer.

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #132 on:** September 23, 2006, 12:45:40 AM

Fact or Crap!:

FUNimation was the company that dubbed the Dragonball Anime series.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #133 on:** September 23, 2006, 09:06:05 AM

fact?

pokeplayer984 · **Reply #134 on:** September 25, 2006, 01:06:08 AM

Yes it is fact. However, the company is rather frowned upon with such a thing. There are many more Anime shows that the company dubs. Ones which would give it a better reputation IMO.

Well, your turn f-22 "raptor" ace.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #135 on:** September 25, 2006, 09:38:44 AM

fact or crap nero fiddled while rome burned.

Malte279 · **Reply #136 on:** September 25, 2006, 10:18:09 AM

Popular myth has it that he played a lyre while Rome was burning. There were no fiddles in ancient Rome (I think the first instruments resembling a fiddle were brought up in the 11th century AD), so the statement is definitely crap. Historians are arguing about whether or not Nero's playing the lyre during the fire (and accusations of the fire being started on his order) is a piece of "post-Neroic" propaganda or if indeed there is some substance to it.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #137 on:** September 27, 2006, 09:36:01 AM

correct malte Besides not owning a fiddle nero also lowered the price of corn,opened shelters for the homeless,and he brouhgt food in from the provinces during the crisis. your turn malte.

Malte279 · **Reply #138 on:** November 13, 2006, 01:59:21 PM

Sorry, I must admit I forgot about this game. Thanks to Pokeplayer for reminding me.
On the day of his assassination Abraham Lincoln predicted that something important was going to happen because he had had a dream which he had had prior to most major battles of the Civil War.

Petrie. · **Reply #139 on:** November 17, 2006, 07:23:19 PM

I'm guessing fact.