Who am I?

Nick22 · **Reply #100 on:** January 29, 2005, 01:18:19 PM

How many soldiers placed the Amercan Flag on Iwo Jima?
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #101 on:** January 29, 2005, 01:25:12 PM

This is actually about giving hints about people in history. If you are talking of this flag placing:

it would be four people. It is a posed photo though, and a flag had been hoisted on Iwo Jima before this famous photo was taken.

Malte279 · **Reply #102 on:** January 29, 2005, 01:31:08 PM

I just read about six people hoisting the flag two of whom are supposed to be in the background of the photo. I can't see them to be honest.

Nick22 · **Reply #103 on:** January 31, 2005, 10:47:21 AM

6 is correct. 3 of them are still alive, I believe. Your turn malte. I couldn't think of anyone to describe, so I picked the Iwo Jima landing.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #104 on:** January 31, 2005, 12:36:38 PM

Among many other stuff I became known for developing a simple way of "untying" a complicate knot.

Nick22 · **Reply #105 on:** January 31, 2005, 03:05:39 PM

Einstein
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #106 on:** February 01, 2005, 05:13:30 AM

Nope, I was much less peaceful minded than him, as was my way of untying the knot.

Nick22 · **Reply #107 on:** February 01, 2005, 10:41:20 AM

That would be cutting the proverbian Gordian knot, correct?
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #108 on:** February 01, 2005, 10:54:36 AM

And who cut it?

Nick22 · **Reply #109 on:** February 01, 2005, 10:57:17 AM

Attila the hun is my guess. He cut it by killing.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #110 on:** February 02, 2005, 08:49:43 AM

Nope! Attila did not cut the gordic knot. When I'm talking of the Gordic knot here, I refer to the historical one that did exist and whose cutting did coin the phrase. There was a prophecy according to which the one who could loose the knot should become the ruler of... a region of which the person who cut the knot in fact conquered a good part.

Nick22 · **Reply #111 on:** February 02, 2005, 10:00:35 AM

Alexander the great
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #112 on:** February 02, 2005, 11:03:13 AM

Indeed. Your turn

Nick22 · **Reply #113 on:** February 02, 2005, 02:29:17 PM

I am the people that gave thier name to a sea Who am I?
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #114 on:** February 02, 2005, 04:22:49 PM

Indians (Indian Ocean)?
Balts (Baltic Sea)?

Nick22 · **Reply #115 on:** February 02, 2005, 05:19:29 PM

Nope. Keep guessing Malte.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #116 on:** February 03, 2005, 03:24:38 AM

There are many other large bodies of water named after people though most of these are part of a larger Ocean.
The Chinese Sea (northern and southern) belong to the Pacific Ocean. So does the Japanese Sea. The Gulf of Mexico (named after the country rather than the people) is sort of a part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Is any of these bodies of water the one you are looking for?

Malte279 · **Reply #117 on:** February 03, 2005, 04:42:31 AM

Something just struck my mind. I have never before thought about it, but Atlantic, does it come from Atlantis? It's just a guess, I never read this, but it seems like a plausible guess.
According to Plato's description, beyond the pillars of Heracles (Gibraltar) is likely to refer to the Atlantic Ocean.

Nick22 · **Reply #118 on:** February 03, 2005, 10:30:10 AM

First, none of the answers are corrects. Second, the name Atlantic does indeed come from Atlantis. according to legend, Atlantis was either an island or a continent located in the middle of what is now the Atlantic ocean.
Nick

Malte279 · **Reply #119 on:** February 03, 2005, 11:05:44 AM

I brought the light to the world and dropped out of my wedding party attended to my "hobby" in which I proved more productive than anyone else.