March 08, 2006

Gratuitous Royal Navy Geekery Posting

Not me this time. Tainted Bill has a fiendish quiz up: Identify the naval battle that occured the farthest away from shore.

The fiendish part is the clue Bill starts with. I made a feeble attempt at a guess based on the way the comments developed, but really, I'm not at all sure.

UPDATE: We have a winner. You'll just have to go over and see what it was and no, it wasn't my guess.

Posted by Robert at March 8, 2006 01:01 PM | TrackBack
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Started reading Master and Commander. The prose is very good and it's interesting, but I'll be damned if it isn't a strain to understand the historical dialect in the dialogue.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at March 8, 2006 01:42 PM

Excellent! Keep at it - you'll get used to the dialect.

Posted by: Robbo the LB at March 8, 2006 02:00 PM