@Mouse: Correct. Too easy?

Mouse, it is indeed Bursa. Next question: What did the Romans name modern-day Paris?

Lutetia! I can't pass up on that one, I read too much Asterix & Obelix (are those comics even a thing in the US? Didn't hear anything about them while I lived there).

Gotta try one myself: Why is brown the color associated with National Socialism?
The easy answer would be that it was the color of the shirts worn by the SA militia of Hitler's NSDAP party, but why did they choose brown as the color for their shirts?

Wasnt brown the colour of fascism,since tge simbol of fascism is brown(I dont remember what its proper name is.)

A number of symbols/insignia/uniforms were brown, but they were all adapted from the SA uniform. And that one has quite the amusing backstory :) It is a rather difficult question, I admit.

Fasces was brown? Fasces being the bundle of twigs that etruscian guards had their weapons in because there was a weapon prohibition in Rome in those days.

Getting closer, Italy does have something to do with it! Hitler and the NSDAP leadership regarded the Italian fascist movement as a model, and Mussolinis militia wore black shirts (hence their name, the Blackshirts). So Hitler wanted black shirts for the SA as well, but they ended up with brown ones. But why? Surely you could buy a black shirt in Germany in the 1920s...

Maybe because conspiration?Lotsa people in black attracted attention,brown-not so much.

Turns out the black shirts were just too expensive, or rather, the brown ones were really cheap. The uniform of the German colonial troops had a brown shirt, and after Germany lost all its colonies in WW1, the German army literally had tens of thousands of brown shirts just lying around and wanted to get rid of them. The NSDAP bought loads of them, just because they could get them for next to no money. And that's how brown became the fascist color! ;)

Next one: Who was Zheng He and what cool stuff did he do?

A chinese general I suppose?I think I heard of him,but its hard to know for certain with such names.

@vixol @Amby
The correct answer is that the first wave of settlers came from Indonesia (typically Borneo). However, they were later joined by waves of Bantu settlers.
Vixol, the language route was correct. As a result of Indonesian colonization, Madagascar's language is from the Austronesian family.

I'm giving it to d-ice re what happened yesterday 230 years ago. On 26 January 1788 the first British fleets arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to set up a penal colony. By default it was led by the first British Governor of what was called New South Wales. That pretty much encompassed all of Australia. Although as time went by and the colony grew in the early 1800's with other penal colonies and free settlers New South Wales was broken up into other colonies that come 1901 federated into modern Australia, each becoming their own states.

@Ztir - wow interesting stuff!

Zheng He was the chinese merchant/explorer who made it an impressive distance west through the Indian Ocean, wasn't he?

Pretty sure you are right mouse.

Yes you are!

Zheng He did six voyages with fleets of sometimes over 60 ships, visiting Southeast Asia, India, Arabia and even Somalia, all of that nearly a century before Vasco da Gama's and Columbus' voyages.

What started today 100 years ago?

@vixol the Finnish Civil War.

@argentinean yes correct, are you Finnish or just very educated :)

I'm American, but I read a lot of books.

I have a question. To which two islands was Napoleon exiled? (Hint: he escaped one, and died on the other.)

Elba was one, don’t remember which.

Whereas I could recall that he was exiled to St. Helena after initially escaping, but not where the first was. Tag team question answering!

Yup.

Uber and mouse have combined for the correct answer. Napoleon escaped from Elba, and was then exiled to St. Helena for the rest of his life.

Time to delve into the realm of sports history. In which city did the Kansas City Chiefs originate? (Hint: It isn't KC.)

Weren’t they the Dallas Texans before Hunt moved them to KC? Yup, I’m definitely an American football fan.