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History Game

Mustachio said:
Is the answer 42?
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Yes!

Since I answered the last question, here's a new one that's a bit meta (in that its as much about historians as history):

What German historian radically changed the consensus on the question of war guilt for World War One against Germany?
 
Civil1z@tion said:
What German historian radically changed the consensus on the question of war guilt for World War One against Germany?
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Sorry, Civ, but this doesn't really work as a question since it requires a statement of opinion rather than fact. You might be looking for the answer Fritz Fischer, but it is a matter of opinion whether he changed the concensus, he certainly wasn't the first person to accuse Germany of culpability for WWI, not even the first German to do so.
 
To kick things off again, what was the shortest war in history, who were the belligerents, and how long did it go for?
 
spud_meister said:
To kick things off again, what was the shortest war in history, who were the belligerents, and how long did it go for?
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ahah it was somewhere in africa (zanzibar?), against the Brits, and it lasted like 45 minutes :p
 
It was the war between myself and the ant colony in my backyard last Wednesday. I won it in 4 minutes.

I used chemical warfare on their infantry units and scouts and then I used more conventional methods to take out the infrastructure of the colony. There were many civilian deaths, but the greater good was served.
 
spud_meister said:
To kick things off again, what was the shortest war in history, who were the belligerents, and how long did it go for?
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It was the Anglo-Zanzibar War, lasting 40 minutes and resulting in 500 casualties on the sultan's side and one British sailor on the other side. :2razz:

Name the world's first completely portable automatic machine-gun and the year it was invented.
 
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