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The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. How long did it last and who won?
Jordon
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it seems like england only needed 38 minutes to win.
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England won in 37 minutes and 23 seconds.
Christopher Reed
"The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient."
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The News from Jordon wrote: The shortest war on record was fought between Zanzibar and England in 1896. How long did it last and who won?
It was 38 minutes and neither of your two choices won. It was the United Kingdom that won.
Strictly speaking there was never a war between Zanzibar and England in 1896 that lasted about 38 minutes. However, there was a war between Zanzibar and the United Kingdom.
Since 1707 England[^] ceased to exist as a distict political entity. "It [England] has not had a distinct political identity since 1707, when the Kingdom of Great Britain was established as a unified political entity; however, it has a legal identity separate from those of Scotland and Northern Ireland, as part of the entity England and Wales[^]."
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I felt certain the multi-armed Zanzibarbarian shark women and their exploding wigs of death would have won the day.
Just goes to show youi can never tell...
Brett.
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Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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-- modified at 12:38 Thursday 1st June, 2006
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You leave home, go a distance, make a left turn, go the same distance, make another left, go the same distance again, make a left turn, and you return home finding 2 people there wearing masks. What have you just done?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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Run the bases at a baseball game.
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Just found out that...
-My kids just reminded that Halloween is 153 days away?
-Just caught the wife & Raul re-enacting Mardi Gras 2006...IN MY BEDROOM!?!
-Health dept. just discovered in the backyard our pile of dirty diapers?
-My inlaws are back!
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/AC
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You left the door unlocked!
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Walked from and to either the North or South Poles.
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You just hit a home run in baseball.
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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In the last World Cup (2002), which was the only team not to lose a match?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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The current world champion: Brasil (my all-time favorite team).
By the way, see my home country (Costa Rica), play on the oppening game, this june 9th against Germany... I only hope it's not going to be a wild carnage...
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I'd have to say Brazil..
Go Socceroos 2006!
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Definitely Brazil...
I hope that Australia does beat them this World Cup. After all, we have beaten them before in 2001
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Well, dreaming is free... I can also dream my team will beat Germany on the openning match... or maybe not...
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The only team that didn't loose a match was Brazil.;)
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Yep, Brazil.
Come on Paraguay, Trinidad and Sweden
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The News from Jordon wrote: In the last World Cup (2002), which was the only team not to lose a match?
The world cup winning team ofcourse
You know you're obsessed with computer graphics when you're outside and you look up at the trees and think, "Wow! That's spectacular resolution!"
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Wow guys, I am surprised. I wish I could take credit for this one but I can't.
ANSWER - Scotland
Everyone thinks Brazil since they won but Scotland never lost a match (even though they didn’t accumulate enough points to actually qualify).
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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That is totally wrong... Scotland wasn't even in the worldcup!
Also, it's impossible for a team not to lose any match and not getting to the first place (it's even possible to lose a couple of matches and win the cup).
If you take a minute, and see the score cards, you'll see that Brazil didn't lose any of its games during the 2002 worldcup. Look the details in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_2002[^]
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And even that was only for the qualifying rounds, not the actual world cup tournament... Scotland did not go to Korea-Japan.
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I agree with Adrian. Brazil never lost a group stage match - they topped their group. They didn't lose any in the knockout stage either, because they would have been eliminated.
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