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Bolton's Boots said:
No - wouldn't that make it GP? :)

Apparently BP was originally the marketing arm of the German Europäische Petroleum Union in the UK. It was bought by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1916. It's strange to think that BP was a German Company in Britain for the first half of WWI. I wonder how APOC paid for it?
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NZHorn said:
Apparently BP was originally the marketing arm of the German Europäische Petroleum Union in the UK. It was bought by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1916. It's strange to think that BP was a German Company in Britain for the first half of WWI. I wonder how APOC paid for it?
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You're getting there. APOC started in 1908 after successful oil discovery in Persia. If you can find the names of the pair who funded that exploration......
 
I've only found William Knox D'Arcy, who also owned gold mines in Australia. I can't find the football connection unless that has something to do with George Bernard Reynolds or the Burmah Oil Company.
 
NZHorn said:
I've only found William Knox D'Arcy, who also owned gold mines in Australia. I can't find the football connection unless that has something to do with George Bernard Reynolds or the Burmah Oil Company.
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Almost there - William D'Arcy was one of the two partners whose wealth from gold mining led to APOC - both were partners in a gold mine in my home town, the other one provides the football connection. If you can find his name, I'll give it to you.
 
NZHorn said:
Is it Walter Hall? You will have to explain his connection with football.
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That's him, Walter, aka Wesley, Hall. He and D'Arcy were two of the richest men in Australia at the time thanks to their gold mine - their combined wealth was around £800m in today's terms. It was he who introduced football to the town of Rockhampton around 1895 and donated a rather ornate, large solid silver trophy known as the Wesley Hall Cup, still played for today. It's thought to be the oldest surviving football trophy in Australia, is certainly the oldest in Queensland - and is also the largest in world football.

Over to you...
 
I think a clue needed here. You need to get the link between Mao and Mayonnaise. Mao is probably not the Mao you are thinking the question refers to. There is no Chinese influence.
 
It's a town in Mallorca - my Dad used to have a habit of exploring where we were without a map and we came across it when my family were on holiday there when I was a child. There was some plaque there and although it was in Spanish, I managed to guess it had something to do with a battle and the French. I think that there is a crop grown there that the oil from it is used in mayonnaise.
 
Hornet-Fez said:
My last match was a Stanley Cup game at the Flyers.... shame they wear orange white and black... I also got to see them in training in Berlin, New Jersey. Their netminder went from cult to legendary status overnight. Who was he and what is the story?
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Apologies all I completely forgot I'd set a question.

AK did not give the answer I was looking for. Mikhail Yeramin of CSKA Moscow and Ibrahim Dossey of Rapid Bucharest are kindred spirits....
 
Jsybarry said:
It's a town in Mallorca - my Dad used to have a habit of exploring where we were without a map and we came across it when my family were on holiday there when I was a child. There was some plaque there and although it was in Spanish, I managed to guess it had something to do with a battle and the French. I think that there is a crop grown there that the oil from it is used in mayonnaise.
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I'll give it to you Barry. In the Seven Years War Fort St Phillip near Mahon in Menorca was besieged by the French. In the local language, Catalan, Mahon is called Mao. Inside the fort they got very short of all foods except olive oil and eggs, and consequently invented mayonnaise. The French rather liked this sauce and called it mayonnaise, ie something from Mao. The Belgians invented chips and thought they were improved with the sauce.
 
geitungur akureyrar said:
Pelle Lindbergh was Flyers goalminder and Mikhail Yeremin and Ibrahim Dossey were football goal keepers all died in car accidents.
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Is the correct answer. Saw him play an absolute blinder for Flyers in 1984, met him at training and he spent a good 10minutes talking to me. Was horrified when I got the news.
 
I thought that as you answered an older question, it should be your turn. However, as you've asked me what the question is, I'll ask it.

VE Day in the UK is on May 8th and Liberation Day in the Channel Islands is on May 9th. There is a part of that statement I have omitted - what is it?
 
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