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Dec 29, 1890 is the day of the Wounded Knee Massacre, which saw the deaths of over 200 people of the Sioux(Lakota) Nation at the hands of the US Army, at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. This event marks the symbolic end of an era for many.
Who can name the tribal chief of this group, who died with his people that day.
Wasnt Sitting Bull killed a week earlier?Payback for Little big horn.Custer had it Coming!!!Damn shameful era,When you consider how not long ago that was,speaking in broad national history.I remember a documentary years ago about Leonard Peltier and A.I.M and the uprising in the 70's.Quote:
Originally Posted by CGM
Yeah mon, Sitting Bull was killed a week earlier. Although he wasn't killed directly by the US military, I do believe they were trying to arrest him, and Sitting Bull tool a bullet in the ensuing chaos. Yeah Custer bit off more than he could chew when he attacked at Little Big Horn. Crazy Horse was another leader who was killed while in custody of the US Army. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli surfs 'NawlinsWasnt Sitting Bull killed a week earlier?Payback for Little big horn.Custer had it Coming!!!Damn shameful era,When you consider how not long ago that was,speaking in broad national history.I remember a documentary years ago about Leonard Peltier and A.I.M and the uprising in the 70's.Quote:
Originally Posted by CGM
What blows me a way is how fast it all happened. If you've read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the loss of a way of life for all the tribes west of the Mississippi happened over the space of about 40 years.
Back to the question. The Indian Chief I have quizzed about was in fact a half brother of Sitting Bull. That question is still unanswered.
Half brother?Big Foot yeah but I didnt realize he was killed to be honest.now it clicks.It really strikes you as organized eradication.Shameful!I have not read the book but you have me going to the VHS shelf,Title of documentary??Thanks budQuote:
Originally Posted by CGMYeah mon, Sitting Bull was killed a week earlier. Although he wasn't killed directly by the US military, I do believe they were trying to arrest him, and Sitting Bull tool a bullet in the ensuing chaos. Yeah Custer bit off more than he could chew when he attacked at Little Big Horn. Crazy Horse was another leader who was killed while in custody of the US Army. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli surfs 'NawlinsWasnt Sitting Bull killed a week earlier?Payback for Little big horn.Custer had it Coming!!!Damn shameful era,When you consider how not long ago that was,speaking in broad national history.I remember a documentary years ago about Leonard Peltier and A.I.M and the uprising in the 70's.Quote:
Originally Posted by CGM
What blows me a way is how fast it all happened. If you've read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the loss of a way of life for all the tribes west of the Mississippi happened over the space of about 40 years.
Back to the question. The Indian Chief I have quizzed about was in fact a half brother of Sitting Bull. That question is still unanswered.
It was Bigfoot, yeah. After Sitting Bull was killed, Bigfoot was leading his people to the reservation at Pine Ridge for safety, when the Wounded Knee incident took place.
This small group of islands lies in the Atlantic approximately 800 miles due east of Charleston, South Carolina.
Bahamas?Quote:
Originally Posted by CGM
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by YoungbloodBahamas?Quote:
Originally Posted by CGM
Bermuda?
How many Prime Ministers has Canada had?
Bermuda is correct. Bahamas is much further south.
Hmm No idea on how many Prime Ministers we have had. Youngblood can you tell me who was Prime Minister after Brian Mulroney?
I should have known Bermuda with my interest in cyclones and tracking hurricanes.
Umm, gonna say Paul Martin? v Prob. wrong tho...I honestly know more about US presidents from tv.
Sorry no, not Paul Martin.
Is this sorta a trick question. Wasn't there a female interim PM or something?
You are correct. Mulroney retired from politics before the end of his term, and the Conservative Party nominated Kim Campbell to fill in, she lasted only a short while before being thrashed by Jean Cretien in the next election. Cretien, the lying sonofabitch that he was, served three terms, over 10 years, before being succeeded by Paul Martin.
Ha Paul Martin was way off the mark. Missed Cretien all together. Yea I remember reading about her, but couldn't attach a name to her. Sheila Copps came up in my head, but knew that was wrong.
Things are quiet in here, so a bit off history/geo.
What is the speed of Earth's rotation?
The moons orbital speed of earth?
The Earth around the Sun?
roughly.
damn, you ask tough questions, but here goes.
well, if I remember correctly, the earth is 93,000,000 miles from the sun. so we will take this 93,000,000 miles as the radius of a roughly circular orbit. pi = approx 3.1416. The circumference of a circle is 2 x pi x radius = 2 x 3.1416 x 93,000,000 = 584,337,500 miles, this is the distance the earth travels around the sun in one year.
so the number of hours in 1 year is 365x24 = 8760. The earth completes an orbit of the sun in one year, therefore the approximate orbital speed of the earth around the sun is 584,337.500 / 8760 = 66,705 miles per hour.
multiply by 1.6 to get km/h of 106,728 kmh.
I am sorry, but I forget the conversion formula to convert standard hours into metric units.
How am I doing so far?
1 down. 2 to go. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by CGM
Problem is, I don't know the diameter of the earth, nor the distance of the moon to the earth, at which point the questions become basic math. So I will have to defer to someone else.
Well it was nice to see the math in action. I used a different formula to find the answers, tbh. I googled them.Quote:
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Educated or uneducated answers or guesses for the other two, anyone?
I'm still taking guesses or answers on the number of Canadian Prime Ministers we've had also.
Nerds!!!!! ;d
ok, not a lot happening at my place, so here goes on the other two questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
OK, I seem to recall froom my Rick Hansen post that the circumference of the earth is about 45,000, can't remember if it was miles or kilometeres, so I'll say kilometers. Seeing as how the earth completes a rotation in 24 hours, that makes the rotational velocity of the earth 45,000/24 = 1,875 km/h no wonder it's so fucking windy all the time.
Also I seem to recall that the distance fom the moon to the earth is about 140,000 miles, multiply by 1.6 to get 224,000 km. add to that the radius of the earth, which is circumference / (2* pi) = 7,162 km. So the distance from the moon to the center of the erth is 231,162 km.
Therefore, the circumference of the moon's orbit around the earth 2 * pi * 231,162 = 1,452,437 km. Now I think that one revolution of the moon around the earth is marked by a cycle of moon phases, which is 28 days, therefore...
the orbital velocity of the moon around the earth is approximately
1,452,437 / (28*24) = 2,161 km/h approximately.
Ya these weren`t the best questions. Ima a rookie here, so forgive me.
I like reading your math in figuring them out. I guess I was expecting it to be more of a recall thing, but prob. unless someone just recently had a highschool science class with them, or is a bonafide astrophysicist that precise recall isn`t going to be there. Plus there are variables like current latitude to consider etc. Was just looking for a ballpark...and at 1875 km/h that is fairly close to the mean speed based at the equator of just over 1000 mph or roughly 1600 km/h. Well done. :)
Wikipedia has the moon travelling at an orbital speed 1.022 km/s so that would equate to approx. 3700 km/h.
OK, so clearly I underestimated the distance from the moon to the earth, either that or I over estimated the time it takes for the moon to circle the earth. I'll have to look this stuff up. This has been a useful thread for learning things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
:) Knowing how to use pi, and also trigonometry, are two of the more useful math topics you will learn have learned in school.
March 27, 1977 saw the world's deadliest ever air accident, when two Boeing 747s collided at an airport, killing 583 people. Name the location.
Midair.
Ha Ha no, actually it happened on the ground, on the runway. Nice try though. :cool:
I watch airplane accident docu's all the time on Discovery channel, and know a fair bit about this...the 3 exits, various miscommunications, the back up of air traffic etc, even can picture in my head the recreation of it...but cannot remember where it was.
Is not North America though.
Somewhere in South Africa I believe
haha,I suppose thats more of a question than an actual answer:cwm13:
You are incorrect. Three incorrect responses, time for the answer. The accident happened at Tenerife Airport in the Canary Islands, which is off the coast of Spain. It was a runway accident, pilot error compounded by poor visibility due to fog, proceeding without proper intructions from the control tower.
No one stepping up to take a shot at the number of Prime Ministers...so the answer is 22. Ranging from Sir John. A Macdonald our first, to our present Stephen Harper.
Ruben Carter - What is his nickname?
Where was he born and raised? And where does he live now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EotM7FH8uQgQuote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
I believe Ruben "Hurricane Carter" lives here in Toronto, Not sure where he was born, but I think he was raised in juvenile hall.
Yea I should have asked you to stand down for current location. I imagine he gets/has gotten a fair bit of press there. Ironically he was falsely accused of a crime in Toronto and brought in for it...to be released shortly after they found out who he was.
Let's see who knows where he was born and raised, and incidentally charged for the multiple murders also.
Actually no, not that much press that I have noticed. But yeah, I remember reading a story in one of the local papers several years ago. A few people from Toronto were instrumental in getting him his release, and so he came here afterwards.
p.s, myself, I lean towards guilty as charged on the murders. Read his autobigraphy a few years ago. Probably the most angry, expletive filled book I've ever read.
Tenerife is of Africa, Giune Basso, a tale .We were waiting on the Runway for 3 hours with Technical difficultys. My mate starts shitting himself wants to get of the plane He smells Trouble. Im telling Him to calm down, then start thinking His Father invented the Black Box also the spray that stops ther wings from freezing and the round bits on the wing tip to break down snow flakes. He knows Planes, now Im shitting myself. ;D. Memorys of Tenerife :rolleyes:
Right you are, off the Southern tip of Morocco I see now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrap
How long ago was this story of Tenerife? Before or after the collision?
1997 as I recall ;D
Well, seeing as how you put it that way, I guess I do know the answer. It's a place in New Jersey where, if you're black, you better not show up on the street, lest you wanna draw the heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Youngblood
Off Africa....South Africa...close enough :domo-kun:;D
Ruben Carter always struke me as a prick in interviews,Suppose I'd have a chip on my shoulders as well