DaleCooper
Established Member
Although you are all in right area this is a specific and particularly remarkable event.
Are they stood safely over the site of the first underground test?
I've sinned and had a google, I see why you found it amusing...
I found your answer wryly amusing for reasons that will be clear when the correct answer is revealed.
Then I can only guess that they're standing directly BELOW a nuclear test?
Precisely, for the full story see: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-not-to-watch-an-overhead-nuclear-test/
Your turn...
Damn, I thought I'd made it ungooglifiable.
I think I read about this recently. Is it that neither of the countries want the disputed territory due to the liabilities that come with it? Unfortunately I can't remember the countries involved although I think they are in Africa.
What island (off the coast of Australia) was first "sighted" in the 19th century, but it wasn't until 2012 that (despite being on Google Earth) it was discovered it didn't actually exist !
Jack the Ripper?
Indian Mutiny ?
It was the Battle of Isandlwana.
Flashman claims to be a survivor of that (and a defender of Rorke's Drift) in "Flashman and the Tiger".
American Civil War?
Correct -- your floor. (Fraser is on record as having stated, a few years before his death, that he regarded the ACW as a rubbish war; and that he wasn't, and never had been, planning to write a full novel about Flashman's doings in same. This caused a certain amount of ill-feeling on the part of some folk, who considered that the author was indicating thus, a degree of contempt for his devoted fans -- many of whom, in the light of the "hints and crumbs dropped" throughout the series, were yearning for the full Civil War tome.)