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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Aug 5, 2010
Who were invincible towards the end of the nineteenth century?
Why were they unique?
No wiki or google.
A minefield there is between here and the answer!!
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 5, 2010
Did they cease to be invincible by the start of the 20th?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Aug 5, 2010
In the context of the QI, yes.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 5, 2010
Ah-ha. mmm yess...hmmm ::thinks::
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Aug 6, 2010
Invincible as in a discrete group of persons who when pressed upon, stood up to the challenges leagued against them?
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Superfrenchie Posted Aug 6, 2010
Did they cease to be at all by the start of the 20th century? 
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Deadangel - Still not dead, just! Posted Aug 6, 2010
Here's the first obvious one for you. The Boers?
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Teasswill Posted Aug 6, 2010
Some sort of animal that had not yet been caught & tamed?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Aug 6, 2010
Right!
pebbledrook! In a way, yes.
stunningfrenchie. No.
Deadangel. Dead right!! Boers = 
-5
teaswill/toybox. No and no.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 6, 2010
"when dressed up"
It's not the Chinese Boxer Rebellion is it?
They thought kung fu and magic underwear could stop bullets.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Aug 6, 2010
Yes frenchie, we are talking people here....
Clive. Really! It was laid just for you!
Boxer Rebellion. -5
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 6, 2010
Oh bugger. 
Turn about is fair play I suppose. 
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Geggs Posted Aug 6, 2010
Okay, here's a klaxon waiting to happen; the Zulus.
Generally regarded as a strong fighting force, but gunpower pretty much did for them. It was the just killing a Zulu warrior wasn't enough - you had to push them over to make them lie down.
Geggs
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Aug 6, 2010
Zulus???
Am I generous or what geggs???
................Sorree!!
That is another -5
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Aug 6, 2010
Rather than being African gentlemen would I be barking up the wrong tree to say that on the contrary they were lilywhite?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Aug 6, 2010
Oooo pebble!
Getting warmer!!
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Aug 6, 2010
Good enough. I will leave it to the others, don't want to spoil the fun
As this may be an area of expertise I may jump in for some cheap QI's later on.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Aug 6, 2010
"an area of expertise" so I should perhaps reconsider the Boer War QI I was working on? 
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- 1: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Aug 5, 2010)
- 2: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 5, 2010)
- 3: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Aug 5, 2010)
- 4: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 5, 2010)
- 5: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Aug 6, 2010)
- 6: Superfrenchie (Aug 6, 2010)
- 7: Deadangel - Still not dead, just! (Aug 6, 2010)
- 8: Teasswill (Aug 6, 2010)
- 9: toybox (Aug 6, 2010)
- 10: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Aug 6, 2010)
- 11: Superfrenchie (Aug 6, 2010)
- 12: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 6, 2010)
- 13: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Aug 6, 2010)
- 14: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 6, 2010)
- 15: Geggs (Aug 6, 2010)
- 16: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Aug 6, 2010)
- 17: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Aug 6, 2010)
- 18: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Aug 6, 2010)
- 19: pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? (Aug 6, 2010)
- 20: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Aug 6, 2010)
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