Recent content by Fairdowner

Maybe they both, together with a young Helmet Gruppenfuhrer get into music and become the Austro-Hungarian musics enfant terrible rising to fame after first being noticed singing in the local church's choir. After taking Vienna by storm they tour the major cities of Europe. They later hold a...

Bugger, I hate it when that happens... Batu Knan Backing guitarist and occasional vocalists for seminal Shockabilly band Jamie Lee Swaggart and the Commonwealthies from its formation in a Tennesee in 1958. Batu found a soul mate with Chinese, Especially but not always Han as the two had very...

CHINESE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT ALWAYS HAN Chinese, especially but not always Han was a Confederate born country/rock guitarist, songwriter and record producer who came to fame despite the obvious handicap of having a weird name in the late 1950s as member of Jamie Lee Swaggart's backing band The...

Umm....Do you wish to nominate someone else?

Due to the diverse nature of its member the pre ww1 Austro-Hungarian Army had a form of "barracks". An artificial language created so those from different backgrounds, (you know ethnic, racial etc) could effectively communicate between each other. Could such a concept be expanded to include the...

Gloriana Gloriana, Originally known as Shane Harvey Rupe (10 October 1947- 11 December 2019) was the NZ born drag performer, Commonwealth Swimmer, Combat Veteran, Night Club Owner, anti-discrimination activist and later M.P and Cabinet Minister. Born in the small rural town of Taumanui in the...

Would it be possible to have Hitler as leader of Germany but not have a WW2? I remember a German lecturer once raised a few eye brows among us saying that Hitler was seen as a social and economic saviour by many Germans and it was only in Germanys defeat in that war that history has judged...

Wasn't German defeat in the WW1 a prerequisite for the rise of Hitler and the Nazis? I'm not saying there wouldn't be a second major war in Europe a few years after the first- maybe a vengeful France or British Empire out for revenge pushing Germany into a round two but I agree with the others...

Could the German Navy not have made a pain in the arse of itself by attacking the Invasion Fleet while it was in port loading up? Maybe by co-ordinating attacks with its airforce? Sort of like what the Royal navy would have done to Napoleans fleet.

"....and the award for Best Motion Picture for 1996 goes to.............ShowGirls" Sydney Poitier, 1996

Wonder what the conglomerate could be called? Toy-land? Leyota?

I'm no expert on the subject but wasn't U.S/Allied air support and the imposition of a no-fly Zone on Saddam's forces quite instrumental in preventing the Iraqis subduing the Kurds?

Actually this might be of the topic slightly but was it possible for one of Britain's contempory Rivals to attack/liberate/takeover the colony or was it just too far out of the way and insignificant?

Yes but only in a classy way. Nothing cheap.

Maybe a Mad Scientist at one of NZs fine Agricultural schools manages to start cloning highly productive South Koreans by the million? Am I reading the topic right?