Okay here are the solutions. Some WERE indeed tricky. But I made remarks.
1. Nofretete was a Mitanni, a people which lived in Mesopotamia and Syria.
2. Felix Graf von Luckner commanded the SMS Seeadler, a sailing ship, ex Pass of Balhama, which was refitted as auxiliar cruiser. As such he drove from Germany into the Pacific to sink enemy merchant vessels. 3 staemer and 13 sailing ships were sunk without any blood. His ship was destroyed by a sea quake setting her on a corale reef. He and his crew were captured. He returned home in 1919. In 1922 he retired from service and wrote some books and made some voyages to the US. In 1939 he returns to Halle an der Saale. There he had trouble with the Nazis who banned all of his books. Later he prevented the destruction of Halle, when the US forces came in 1945. Therefore he became honourly colonel of the 104th US division Timerwolves. When the US left Halle he also went into the west, where he died in 1966 in the age of 84.
Because he was such an hounourable oponent he was respected by friend and foe. His "nicknames" the Kaiser´s pirate or the Last Pirate are more a kind of respect than of anything else.
3. Germany! It is indeed surprising but Germany never recognized the Nuremberg trials as they are considered no fair trial mostly because of the violation of nulla poena sine lege. This was violated because the crime of preparing and conducting an agressive war was not written in any criminal codes on the world. German govenrments since 1949 recognized and stil recognize this trial as Siegerjustiz. Although Germany is one of the strongest supporters of the International Criminal Court...
4. In the Oath of Straßburg the first time German and French are written on paper.
5. Ramses I. In the 1850s Egyptians found a cave in the Valley of the Kings where many mummies were. Over several years they sold parts of this collection, from small gold pieces to whole mummies. One of them was sent to a museum in Canada, at the Niagara Falls. In 1966 the mummy was remarked by a German business man who had a bit time before a meeting. He thought it was the mummy of Nofretete. A German egyptologist examined the mummy and said it was a man, so it was not Nofretete. In the next years there were speculations until the museum of Atlanta bought the mummy and examined it. All hints were now saying it was the mummy of a pharao. Most likely Ramses I. Zahi Hawwas of the Egyptian heritage office recognized it as such and a few years ago the mummy returned to Egypt. Ramses made his last voyage back home.
Until now only Ramses I. made a visit in the New World.
6. The Japanese flag ship Mikasa and the Russian armoured cruiser Awrora (Aurora).
7. On Friday 13th of March 1314 Jaques de Molay, last Grand master of the Temple order, was burnt. He set a curse on the French king and his family as well as on pope Clamens IV. Clemens died on April 20th. Phillip the beauty died in the same year as well as his 3 sons until 1328. The older line of the House Capet was eradicted.
There is the origin of the Friday 13th as a day of bad luck.
8. This question was tricky indeed, as it was clear that many would answer it wrong. Alexander Graham Bell was not the inventor of the telephone but Johann Phillip Reis, a German inventor. In 1863 he deomostrated a telephone in Frankfurt by saying: The horse eats no cucumber salad (Das Pferd frißt keinen Gurkensalat). Source:
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/reis.html
Unfortunately none of the auditorium was giving the invention a chance. Only when Bell modified it slightly the telephone was a success.
No one got this, but that is not very surprising
9. Masada 79 AD.
10. He quoted the Mahabharata epos, an ancient Indian sanscrit epos, in which he saw parallels with the weapon he just invented.
As there were no more answers it is on Doc to make his questions.
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