1.What gas were British World War Two barrage balloons filled with?
The top of the balloon was filled with hydrogen, the bottom half was left empty so when it was put up at a certain height it filled with natural air.
2.Who was the United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia between 1989 and 1992?
Shirley Temple Black was the 27th United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
3.Name the main character in cartoonist Chic Young's long-running comic strip Blondie?
Dagwood Bumstead and Blondie Bumstead
4.Who bought Dodington Park, in Gloucestershire, in 2003 for a price believed to be £20 million?
It was bought in 2003 by the British inventor and businessman James Dyson.
5.What is a clerihew? A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person.
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Soviet union discouraged religion.
Explanation:
While th<u>e Soviet union never outright outlawed religion it was a firm believer in the fact that a true communist society would be one in which religion has no place. </u>
<u>As such, religious property was confiscated and religious leaders often got harassed. </u>
The state policy was to promote atheism in the new generation through schools and other modes of education and closing down of mass gatherings of religious nature.
Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to the British, September 8, 1664. 5. The Dutch gave up the colony without a fight. A few months later, four warships with several hundred soldiers onboard arrived in New Amsterdam's harbor and demanded that the Dutch surrender.
Answer: He came up with the short stabbing spear and the long shield
Explanation:
Before Shaka Zulu came to prominence, the tribes in Southern Africa at the time fought with long spears and short shields. Each side would stand apart from the other and throw their long spears to try to kill as many of the other ones as they could.
Shaka Zulu decried this method and came up with a short stabbing spear and a long shield. With the long shield made of cow skin, Zulu warriors would be able to hide from the spears thrown by their enemies and then when they ran out of spears, Zulu warriors would attack them and use shot stabbing spears which were made for close combat, to defeat them.
