History Forum / General / British History / March 2005

"By George, Maybe He's Right!"
"President Bush yesterday visited Germany, a country whose government
and population have been markedly hostile to the Bush administration's
pro-democracy foreign policy.

I am just re-reading The Complete Yes Minister and one of the chapters deals
with the Chunnel linking Dover and Calais.
The chapter raises some interesting political and legal questions that must
have been resolved by France and England by the time they started (or at

Claudia Rosett gets it exactly right once again.
Robert A. Heinlein, USNA '29, would heartily agree.
Silver, _au contraire_, is too thick to understand.
DSH

For all of the talk in the "Sealion" thread about how Germany could
have landed some light antitank style cannon - or even heavier guns (Of
course every one cuts in weight elsewhere, assuming any percentage or
cohesive unit could make it across the channel.)

about:
British Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm, 1917-1990.
Ray Sturtivant (Naval Institute Press, 1990, ISBN:0870210262)
p.217

So we are highly concerned about terrorists coming over the Mexican
border illegally to attack us -- yet we can't have DUI checkpoints in
Oakland because we are catching too many ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who are also
DRIVING without LICENSES -- because that is perceived as DISCRIMINATORY

"Vaughan Sanders" <jamie@chalkwell-windsurfing.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in
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When, and why, was the decimal half-penny coin abolished?

I'll try this again as a new thread, with a new name, via Google - my
server needs shooting, that's for sure!
"Steve"  wrote

"Liberal" Academics WANT To Shape Their Students Into Pacifists And
Appeasers -- Who View The Profession Of Arms With Thinly-Veiled Contempt
And A Feeling Of Eminent Moral, Financial And Intellectual Superiority.
They do everything they can think of to achieve that goal.

I know the meaning of this, but I am interested in it's origin.
To get shirty is to become offended or annoyed.
Once a merchant seaman told me a tale of how a mariner,
full of drink and fight, took off his shirt and trailed it about him.

"Inside the Beltway"
By John McCaslin
"Kerry out attack"
"During a 1997 debate on CNN's "Crossfire," Sen. John Kerry, now the

A small story in the local news says that a collection of memorabilia owned
by Baroness Lehzon is for sale in Germany.  It goes on that a bit of Queen
Victoria's hair has brought astronomical bids from those hoping to prove
their Royal descent by DNA testing of the hair.

"Running a pack of destroyers through an invasion convoy..."
Pogue Sinclair The Charlatan
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Hilarious!

The Magyar origin of legends in England, Scotland and Irland. Let's look at the celts, the Holy Grail, Arthur and Excalibur.
In the present state of our researches, we must make use of circumstantial evidences to learn more about the ethnic identity of the Celts.
cont.