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Keep politics out. No research please and no hitting "reply".

1..The world's longest hanging bridge is in a European place(?)

2..In the 19C a Ct. city was known as the silk capital of the world. Which?

3..What does CODIS stand for?

4..In 1975 35 countries sign the ________ Accords. About what?

5..In 1714 George I follows..?

6..What river, flowing through 6 nations, is 2nd in biodiversity only to the Amazon?

7..The Us Air Force grows out of the army's ______ _____.

8..The 1st Mike Hammer novel?

9.."There's no such thing as Doctor Seuss..."

10..When sclera are rosy with broken blood vessels, it means what?

11..Jordon is about to join Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia in repealing laws that allow rapists to..?

12..In 1986 the Supreme Court says you can't bar a jury member on the basis of..?
In 1996, on the basis of..?

13..A high end product of the Apuan Alps?
 
7. Air Corps
9."Disneyland, or Mother Goose.." Little Green Apples
 
1. Switzerland

3. Combined DNA Index System

7. Air Forces - The US Air Force replaced the US Army Air Forces in 1947 which itself had replaced the US Army Air Corps. in 1941

9. Little Green Apples
 
2..Manchester CT

7..Army Air Corps

11. Marry their victims and avoid punishment
 
1..Switzerland - just installed a replacement bridge in the Alps, replacing the old one that was damaged in a rock slide.

2..Bridgeport

6..Congo

11..Marry their victims.

12..Race, Gender
 
5) His own inclinations, mebbe?
7) Air corps
8) I, the Jury
 
1..Switzerland

2..Manchester

5..Charles II?

6..Congo?

7..Air Corps

10..Pinkeye
 
5 - Queen Anne, as English monarch, as others have said. He remained more German than English, however.

7. The details from SVC are correct, I think. It was the Army Air Corp, but by WWII my dad served in the Army Air Force.
 
4..a northern European capital

6..In print a lot during late 60's-early 70's, until we had, "Peace with honor".

10..Death by...

13..Same name as those little round toys of our youth.
 
3. It's a DNA database the acronym of which is not part of my limited repertoire of trivial knowledge
4. Paris accords ending the Vietnam conflict.
6. Danube
7. Air Corp
9. Mother Goose or Disneyland - Little Green Apples as sung by OC Smith.
10. You've got bloodshot eyes.
11. Not be castrated
12. Race, Gender
 
6) The Mekong. Knew it before your clue too. The two that I immediately thought of were the Mekong and the Irrawaddy as they both rise in the Himalayas then flow through dense jungles.
 
4..Helsinki - but I don't remember what it was for

10..Chocolate? - or maybe heart failure
 
wire chief said:
4..a northern European capital - Helsinki; Can't we all just get along ... better?!
6..In print a lot during late 60's-early 70's, until we had, "Peace with honor". - Wow! How quickly we forget!!! The end of the Vietnam War.
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The last two pages of I, The Jury were a hot ticket in my high school.
 
1..Three of you got the Swiss structure.

2..Cajun & Big cite Manchester, famous for silk purses. Somehow others picked towns with sow's ears.

3..SVC spells it out. VAUC CELEBRATES HIS COMPARTMENTALIZED GREY MATTER. But gets credit anyway.

4..Rocket picks the city, but blows his chance to enlighten us. Look it up.

5..Ed4 & Knights serenade Queen Anne. She finds them laughable as courters.

6..Husky says keep hints away from me as he accurately chooses the Mekong.. He also sings. "Ain't no town; ain't no city, but Oh how they love on the Irrawaddy-ditty. How the Vietnam War can be an answer to a river-seeking question is something only an SVC can answer. But his mother loves him anyway. (At least I think si).

7..The army loses an appendage in its air corps, but feels better when it gets WACS.

8..Give Zorro a book, and he reads the last 2 pages. Efficient, I guess.

9..Here's SVC again being a truly puzzling poster. The whole world knows that content follows the trailing 3 dots.
Can he figure that out? Nooooooo. Pinot & VAUC , more perceptive fellows.

10..Asphyxia or strangulation.

11..Cajun & rocket need to cancel their wedding plans.

12..Rocket VAUC & Game must end their long history of excluding good folk.

13..VAUC has new counters and bathroom fixtures installed.
 
wire chief said:
7..The army loses an appendage in its air corps, but feels better when it gets WACS.
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Lineage of the United States Air Force
 
SVCBeercats said:
Lineage of the United States Air Force
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From my research SVC is right in that the Army Air Forces came in to existence in 1941. I'm a little sketchy on it but the Air Forces organization was deemed necessary to separate the strategic air forces from under the Army Command structure which saw little use for air power beyond ground support. The Army Air Corps remained in existence until the 1947 reorganization did away with the Army Air Corps and the Army Air Forces.

From your Wikipedia link for the USAAC: "The Congress did not dis-establish the Army Air Corps as a combat arm until 26 July 1947, when the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 502) became law. Most members of the Army Air Forces also remained members of the Air Corps. In May 1945, 88 percent of officers serving in the Army Air Forces were commissioned in the Air Corps, while 82 percent of enlisted members assigned to AAF units and bases had the Air Corps as their combat arm branch."

So I guess you can say both answers are right, though I suspect AAF as the actual WWII war fighting is probably more right than not.
 
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CajunHusky said:
From my research SVC is right in that the Army Air Forces came in to existence in 1941. I'm a little sketchy on it but the Air Forces organization was deemed necessary to separate the strategic air forces from under the Army Command structure which saw little use for air power beyond ground support. The Army Air Corps remained in existence until the 1947 reorganization did away with the Army Air Corps and the Army Air Forces.

From your Wikipedia link for the USAAC: "The Congress did not dis-establish the Army Air Corps as a combat arm until 26 July 1947, when the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 502) became law. Most members of the Army Air Forces also remained members of the Air Corps. In May 1945, 88 percent of officers serving in the Army Air Forces were commissioned in the Air Corps, while 82 percent of enlisted members assigned to AAF units and bases had the Air Corps as their combat arm branch."

So I guess you can say both answers are right, though I suspect AAF as the actual WWII war fighting is probably more right than not.
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Don't forget that the Marine Corp has it's own air force and air bases (called Marine Corp Naval Air Station's).
 
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