New Cumulative General History Quiz
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I'll answered and you can continue with new (anyone) question... No. It was Celtic tribe with name SCORODISCs. Interestingly whole region of N. - Central Serbia were populated with Celtic tribes Illyrians were most to the south of region. Amasingly in some area in Serbian Shumadia (Belgrade n south) there is so many toponims still in use as use to be in old Celtic language for specific placeGagliaudo said:
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Please... I don't want this thread to die. 
Well, I answered a question on the last page and didn't get to set one, so I'll get the ball rolling again.
Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991 were two remarkable projects undertaken with the same purpose. What was it?
Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in 1991 were two remarkable projects undertaken with the same purpose. What was it?
Serutan
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Taking out Iraq's nuclear reactor (program)?
Lord_Sidious
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Operation Solomon
In 1991, the political and economic situation in Ethiopia had deteriorated as Eritrean and Tigrean rebels mounted increasingly successful offensives against the Mariam regime. In May, rebels took control of Addis Ababa and Colonel Mengistu Mariam fled. In late 1990, worried about what might happen to Ethiopian Jews during a political transition period, aliyah and aid workers, the Jewish Agency, Israeli government and IDF had already made covert preparations to airlift and absorb Ethiopian Jews. On Friday May 24th, as the rebels closed in, Operation Solomon began.
Over the course of 36 hours, a total of 34 helicopters - with their seats removed to maximize passenger capacity - flew non-stop. 14,325 Ethiopian Jews came home to Israel, to be greeted by thousands of Israelis who gathered at temporary absorption centers, hotels to welcome their brethren. Operation Solomon saw the rescue of many Ethiopian Jews in Operation Moses and Joshua put together.
Operation Moses was an IDF military operation named after biblical figure Moses.
Begun November 21, 1984, it involved the air transport of some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan directly to Israel, ending January 5th, 1985. Sudan secretly allowed Israel to evacuate the refugees. Once the story broke in the media, Arab countries pressured Sudan to stop the airlift. Some 1,000 Ethiopian Jews were left behind. Most of them were evacuated later in the U.S.-led Operation Joshua. Operation Solomon completed the migration of the Ethiopian Jews.
So the propose was evacuate safetly Ethiopian Jews from Sudan and Ethiopia to Israel
Is this right?
In 1991, the political and economic situation in Ethiopia had deteriorated as Eritrean and Tigrean rebels mounted increasingly successful offensives against the Mariam regime. In May, rebels took control of Addis Ababa and Colonel Mengistu Mariam fled. In late 1990, worried about what might happen to Ethiopian Jews during a political transition period, aliyah and aid workers, the Jewish Agency, Israeli government and IDF had already made covert preparations to airlift and absorb Ethiopian Jews. On Friday May 24th, as the rebels closed in, Operation Solomon began.
Over the course of 36 hours, a total of 34 helicopters - with their seats removed to maximize passenger capacity - flew non-stop. 14,325 Ethiopian Jews came home to Israel, to be greeted by thousands of Israelis who gathered at temporary absorption centers, hotels to welcome their brethren. Operation Solomon saw the rescue of many Ethiopian Jews in Operation Moses and Joshua put together.
Operation Moses was an IDF military operation named after biblical figure Moses.
Begun November 21, 1984, it involved the air transport of some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan directly to Israel, ending January 5th, 1985. Sudan secretly allowed Israel to evacuate the refugees. Once the story broke in the media, Arab countries pressured Sudan to stop the airlift. Some 1,000 Ethiopian Jews were left behind. Most of them were evacuated later in the U.S.-led Operation Joshua. Operation Solomon completed the migration of the Ethiopian Jews.
So the propose was evacuate safetly Ethiopian Jews from Sudan and Ethiopia to Israel
Is this right?
Rolo Master said:
Yup. Interestingly, it was only in the mid-1970s that the chief rabbis accepted that the Ethiopian Jews were Jews at all. Having been cut off from Judaism elsewhere since antiquity, they had developed quite differently, retaining animal sacrifice (until the early twentieth century), having no Talmud, and forgetting Hebrew. But within ten years of their official recognition they were part of the Zionist project. Today there are more Ethiopian Jews in Israel than there are in Ethiopia.
And it's got nothing to do with the US, for a change. I don't think they're very bothered about Ethiopia.
The floor is yours!
Lord_Sidious
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Who was the first European that discovered Madagascar, when and from what country was he from?
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nope.........
Adler17
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The Portuguese sailors Diogo Dias and Francisco de Almeida discovered Madagaskar in 1500.
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Lord_Sidious
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correct!
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the floor is yours Adler...
! the floor is yours Adler...
Adler17
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An East Roman emperor is praised and dammed by lawyers and historians. Who is it and why are there so different opinion about his deeds?
Adler
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I believe it is Justinian.
As stated above for his creating of one single source of law (Justianians Law codex) but I believe he was/is damned for his Ifriqia and Italian campaign. He managed to conquer both areas but it cost him a lot of manpower/resources and was quite useless due to the lack of ability to hopld the area once the Islamic power arose.
As stated above for his creating of one single source of law (Justianians Law codex) but I believe he was/is damned for his Ifriqia and Italian campaign. He managed to conquer both areas but it cost him a lot of manpower/resources and was quite useless due to the lack of ability to hopld the area once the Islamic power arose.
That would of course be Justinian I, not II. He was *quite* different. But this is rather an ambiguous question because it could probably be applied to many emperors. After all, Justinian II was a strong man who held the empire together (good) but also an absolute sod who had lots of people killed including the two men who usurped him (bad). Same thing happened to him, of course. Standard stuff in those days.
Note that Justinian may have closed down the Academy, but that didn't stop philosophy going on in his domains - it was simply Christian philosophy. The Academy was closed simply because it was pagan. Thus you still had sophisticated thinkers like Leontius of Byzantium, Severus of Antioch etc in Justinian's day, who continued to philosophise and pioneer new avenues of logic and metaphysics just as the Academics had (rather more so, in fact, since the Academics were all a bunch of Sceptics by this stage anyway). So it's a moot point whether closing the Academy was a bad move. It didn't make much difference really.
Note that Justinian may have closed down the Academy, but that didn't stop philosophy going on in his domains - it was simply Christian philosophy. The Academy was closed simply because it was pagan. Thus you still had sophisticated thinkers like Leontius of Byzantium, Severus of Antioch etc in Justinian's day, who continued to philosophise and pioneer new avenues of logic and metaphysics just as the Academics had (rather more so, in fact, since the Academics were all a bunch of Sceptics by this stage anyway). So it's a moot point whether closing the Academy was a bad move. It didn't make much difference really.
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