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Daniel38 | 23:27 Mon 02nd Jan 2017 | Phrases & Sayings
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Hi who, what or where is known as the foreign legion?

Stuck on this for a while
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Possibly the San Antonio Spurs basketball team: "The Spurs are so deep that their bench has a nickname. Local writers and fans refer to the team’s second unit as the “Foreign Legion” because of its international composition" http://grantland.com/features/san-antonio-spurs-bench-international-manu-ginobili-rc-buford/ . . . or D Company...
23:38 Mon 02nd Jan 2017
These might be better posted in Quizzes & Puzzles
Sorry -gave only part of the link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion
Possibly the San Antonio Spurs basketball team:
"The Spurs are so deep that their bench has a nickname. Local writers and fans refer to the team’s second unit as the “Foreign Legion” because of its international composition"
http://grantland.com/features/san-antonio-spurs-bench-international-manu-ginobili-rc-buford/

. . . or D Company of the 28th Maori Battalion:
http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/photo/map-showing-battalion-company-boundaries

. . . but perhaps the Welsh Guards might be a more likely answer?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Guards
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hi happy NY buen
and thanks for your sterling help in Law

before the War - there were so many Eastern European refugee doctors at the Accident Hospital in Brum that one part of the doctors mess was called
" The Polish Corridor "
(The Nazis were trying to auppress the real polish corridor at this time)

just um thoughtyou might like to know ....

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