Rhodes and Thatcher are two of the most controversial figures in all British history. Their legacies are complicated at best, evoking very strong feelings from supporters and opponents alike.
Thatcher waged ideological warfare against the working class, and took Britain to a deadly war over some rocks on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. She personally ordered the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano, sending 323 sailors to Davy Jones’s Locker. The ship was in international waters, sailing away from the conflict zone, and was probably sunk as revenge for British casualties.
Meanwhile, very few people would defend Cecil Rhodes, who epitomises the British Empire and colonialism. Countless African lives were lost as a direct result of his arrogant barbarism, underpinned by a vocal Christianity. A delightful man…
it's recently been discovered that the General Belgrano was secretly equipped with a device called a rudder, allowing it to change its direction - almost at will.
I don't get why people object to this comment. It's not complaining about anything - just offering some additional information to whomever might care. I found it interesting!
QM, the numbers on the Wikipedia page mentioned by cpgatbyu are straight from the Shenzhen Statistical Yearbook. If you check out page 77 of the PDF referenced in the sources, you'll see that cpgatbyu is correct. What you quoted is probably simply the result of a typo.
According to 《深圳统计年鉴2014》 (Shenzhen Statistical Yearbook 2014) page 4, the year-end permanent population of Shenzhen was 332,9000.
As a native Shenzhener, I would say Shenzhen has always been a pretty important settlement at least after Hong Kong was ceded to the British. After all, it would be the first town for British Goods to enter mainland China. People who have minimal economic sense would realize the importance.
Got 19 in the first 3 minutes, then spent the last 3 minutes trying and failing to come up with some variation of "fables" that the quiz would accept. I'm not sure how a fairy tale is different from everything else I tried.
Yeah I feel like "fables" should work. I was trying "fables" and "tales" and "children's stories" and "stories" and "short stories" and so many things....fairy tales didn't come to mind until too late.
I think you need to allow a lot more leeway on the spelling of colonel Gaddaffi/ghadafi/khadafy/ghadhafi etc. His name is transliterated from arabic into English in a multitude of ways.
Thatcher waged ideological warfare against the working class, and took Britain to a deadly war over some rocks on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. She personally ordered the sinking of the Argentine warship General Belgrano, sending 323 sailors to Davy Jones’s Locker. The ship was in international waters, sailing away from the conflict zone, and was probably sunk as revenge for British casualties.
Meanwhile, very few people would defend Cecil Rhodes, who epitomises the British Empire and colonialism. Countless African lives were lost as a direct result of his arrogant barbarism, underpinned by a vocal Christianity. A delightful man…
> The Matterhorn was one of the last of the main Alpine mountains to be ascended
"In 1980, Shenzhen had a population of 30,000"
As a native Shenzhener, I would say Shenzhen has always been a pretty important settlement at least after Hong Kong was ceded to the British. After all, it would be the first town for British Goods to enter mainland China. People who have minimal economic sense would realize the importance.
'old wives'
are two others :)
Personally I might have accepted the ones I tried, but you should get around to the term fairytales eventually so it's not a big deal.