>Hi Alex. > >Oooh - oooh (that mess sergeant off Bilko - Reznik? :-) I love quizzes. Without looking it up: > >1) I expect it's from the Latin for South, as in "Land of the South". BTW, the opposite and mirror image of the Aurora Borealis is the Aurora Australis > >2) Again, I expect from the Latin for silver. The Conquistadors expected to find silver there? > >3) I didn't know we ever had! Perhaps by S8ir Francuis Drake, during the reign of Elizabeth?
See my answer to Hilmar. 1) right 2) right and right 3) wrong Note Drake was more a privateer. I am looking for an organized Army and Navy invasion of South America (not Caribbean) sanctioned and planned in London.
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