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[Follow-ups set]
August 28
1941
Police Regiment South shoots 369 Jews. (Browning, 17)

Please explain the nuance to the jinjaweed-executioners, whom
allegedly yell racialist insults while murdering, raping, stealing and
burning
Estimated current bottomline: Two million Darfurans displaced, 300,000

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EXTRACTED - Chapter 2
Jesus the man : decoding the real story of Jesus
and Mary Magdalene
Thiering, B. E. (Barbara Elizabeth)

On Aug 26, 6:16 pm, The Kat <ne...@katxyzkave.net> wrote:

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One of the world's most perplexing mysteries
is WHY the Great Wall of China was built.
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When we work often it pleasanter to work with music playing.
Recently I was reading of Greek workers working in Israel in the late
1940s before popular radio came to the region. A team of men would be
hired to work on a job. Each of these men paid a small sum to have a

Let's see where this one goes 8-)
Actually, I just happened to wonder whether anyone else is reading/has
read the book currently next to my recliner and half-finished: _Essen
und Trinken im Mittelalter_, by Ernst Schubert.   Of course, you have to

Medieval shipwreck found in Barcelona city centre:
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/14920/medieval-shipwreck-found-in-barcelona
-city-centre
Waterford Viking site has yet to be recorded as a national monument:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0505/1209924238973.html

"Bill Clinton believes the Democratic nominee, far from practicing a
unifying, transformational brand of politics, has the political instincts of
“a Chicago thug,” one longtime associate said."
"Clinton has told people that Obama allowed surrogates to try to suppress

The British National Party is to launch a ‘white history’ project as a
counter to the announcement that the state is to make the learning of
‘black history’ compulsory at all UK schools.
http://www.bnp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/arab_slave_trade.jpg

Hmmmmmm...
This could prove to be an even bigger disaster than Obama's speech in
Berlin.
If he loses in November will there be riots in our cities that make the

Sounds eminently reasonable...
Skirts for the formal ceremony of graduation into the Royal Navy as
commissioned officers -- then trousers once in the fleet and operational...
Sound decision by their Lordships.

Stalwart!
With Grit & Determination.
President Bush certainly hasn't forgotten the Berlin Airlift...
Another important thing he has in common in a historical link with President

Expressions of disbelief have arisen over on my Japanese 3rd wave air
strike at Pearl Harbor thread wrt the possible availability of
additional Japanese oilers for Dec.7'41 and later missions.
I start this AH thread in order to further explore those issues ...

Basically the strategy of Japan seems to be to destroy the
U.S. fleet in the Pacific so that they can drive them out of the
Phillipines and then destroy the U.S. bases in the Hawaiian islands
and perhaps establish a few there themselves so that the U.S. would

Gents,
I know that this is way, way out there even for me, but I want your
targeting suggestions.
In 1940 the Japanese National Airline, "Air Nippon" had 12 military

One thread in modern history was the need for states for oil both in
availability and then at the right price.
Before WW2, no one knew that in Libya, a fortune in oil was available.
The Italians did look there before WW2 but gave up. Interestingly in one

In my youth I worked for a pipeline company. A natural gas pipeline in
Indiana has uncovered a previously unknown settlement that may date
back 5,000 years. Or not.
Pipeline Project Makes Unintentional Historic Find

By IAN DEITCH - AP
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5guWJ-x8xXV4cRdMgFxGdlI-sCkYwD92QNF8O0
"The project is expected to take about five years
and the goal is to make the scrolls accessible

Another natural element appears to have origins in America, but is
found in Oceana, brought there by French sailors.
Tahitian Vanilla Originated In Maya Forests, Says Botanist
Pesach Lubinsky, a postdoctoral researcher in UC Riverside's

Listeros,
Ongoing research in the Amazon is returning more proof that it was
once an area of densely populated urban centers in ancient times.
Michael Heckenberger and his research team published their findings in

Issue Regulations: Army Armor Professional
http://www.amervets.com/pro/ar-arm.htm#isr
The history of fortified warfare is pre-historical and evolves from man's
awareness of various animals that were naturally sheathed in an impenetrable

I Served... SP4 Stallings Galen D, Vsm, Vcog, Cwm.
Army Quartermaster Corps
Galen's Authorizations and Acknowledgements:
Army Commendation Medal

Issue Regulations: Asiatic Pacific Campaign
http://www.amervets.com/replacement/ap.htm#isr
The Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal was established by Executive Order 9265
signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 6, 1942, and implemented

I Served... SGT Earl F Hoffman, Vcog, Vcm, Phm.
Co A44 36 Signal Battalion, Vietnam
Earl's Authorizations and Acknowledgements:
Cold War Medal

Assuming two things, that the USA had managed to find out the Japanese
plans for attacking PH, *and* that Roosevelt is *not* the re-
incarnation of Machiavelli, what would be the appropriate way for the
USA to respond in order to inflict maximum losses on the Japanese?

Why did the IJN split up its carrier group after Pearl Harbor?
It seemed undecided - it went on a rampage in the Indian Ocean - then
doubled back - launched a half-a.s attack on Port Morseby with 2 fleet
carriers - and lost a small carrier and nearly lost the Shokaku. Then sent 4

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I am editing the transcription of the December 1944 Journal of 7th Armored
Division's Division Trains, which has this entry:
TO: CO Tns:      50 trucks from Master on way to your now.   G-4   1245
What headquarters had the code name "Master"?

I observe that the North had a string of incompetent generals until
Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan took command.  And I observe that the
South had a string of competent and brilliant generals - except for
Bragg and Ewell (after Ewell lost his leg).

Common on these chat groups is the claim that not only was secession
legal, but that this fact was so obvious that no one really disputed it
in 1860-61 nor later. And those who opposed secession were close to
being criminal in their opposition.

In a recent article in the U. Va. Alumni magazine, Lee Graves lists Gary
Gallagher's ratings of the 10 most influential CW-related movies in his
life.  The article was entitled "Shades of Blue and Gray The Civil War in
Art and Film."  He also uses a 5-star rating system to grade ...

While looking for other things I found the following, which I think is
interesting in the light of many of our discussions here.
On Sept. 20, 1810, Thomas Jefferson wrote the following to one John
Colvin: