Major General Charles George Gordon, or Chinese Gordon as he was known, died in Khartoum today in 1885. He made his reputation 20 years before in the Taiping Rebellion. He was sent to the Sudan to safeguard the country and Egypt from the Mahdi, a Muslim fanatic with an enormous following. The Prime Minister, Gladstone, was in the process of arranging a relief force and Gordon was told he could leave the city. He refused.
What happened next is etched on my memory(and perhaps other schoolboys’ minds) as the garrison fell and Gordon, unarmed, was struck down by countless spears.
The relief force arrived on the 28th, Gordon’s 52nd birthday.
Gordon was born in London in 1833, the son of a Major General and was commissioned a Lieutenant in 1852. He saw service in the Crimea as well as in China. He never married and was a Christian Evangelist, who spend much time helping orphans. He welcomed death.
His effigy can be found in St Paul’s Cathedral, London; his body was never found.
Englishers post in German; Germans post in Chinese…
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Chinese post in Spanish; Spanish post in Thai; Thai post in Icelandic…
It’s only fair and challenging.
If you know the language assigned to you a different language will be asssigned,
:D
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To paraphrase Clinton: "It depends on what the definition of the word “know” is. :wink:
Just because I completed the mandated four years of whatever it is that said class is called now, does that truly mean I “know” the English language?
“English is the second most commonly used language in the world; the most widely used is bad English.” -Unknown (to me at least)
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grins … good idea, but i think english should post Swahili… posting in another germanic language is too easy, as they are too familiar :)
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@F_alk:
grins … good idea, but i think english should post Swahili… posting in another germanic language is too easy, as they are too familiar :)
Okay, we’ll try a test case. Me! Of course my Swahili sounds like a truck dumping gravel, but… :D
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@Anonymous:
@F_alk:
grins … good idea, but i think english should post Swahili… posting in another germanic language is too easy, as they are too familiar :)
Okay, we’ll try a test case. Me! Of course my Swahili sounds like a truck dumping gravel, but… :D
Dat was me!
I was logged in on my last post.
How the Hades does the system do that?!?! -
I would use the Bushmen (I think) language of clicks and whistles, but I can’t type that.
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Always wanted to lean that language myself. Sure beats the heck out of morses code. :D