History Forum / General / British History / May 2005

Have often wondered why                            the crusaders went
overseas to fight?  Were they sent by the Church or the King/Queen?
    Margret

Recte:
"Beyond that [sic] I see no point in an extended repeat of an extended
discussion, even in a single newsgroup, of a paper only two of us have
seen."

From time to time I find references to "The Battle of Southold Bay" which
occurred during the 3rd Anglo-Dutch War.
But I am unable to find much of anything about the battle or what happened.
For example may articles inform us that New York's first Governor, Richard

I see that the US government is taking a very dim view of the leak of those
pictures of Saddam in his underpants that appeared in The Sun.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7917696/
Interesting.

Hilarious!
"Cradle-to-Grave care" is just British patois for *Socialized Medicine*.
So they reportedly have to wait FIVE hours at the local A&E to have a
punctured hand treated, a hand which has had a knife run through it by

Re: The National Health Service:

Yes, Lassie was an English dog, a Yorkshire
collie that was sold to the Duke of Rudling who
transported Lassie to his estate in the north
of Scotland. Lassie escaped and had to travel

Can someone tell me which King was responsible for the two young princes
being held in the Tower?  I thought it was Richard ll; but I am not sure.
     Margret

All,
I would like to tell you about a fascinating web site that deals with the
life and work of Charles Dickens.  This site delves into little-known facts
about the author's life, features an enormous quote database, provides

Hilarious!
TIME magazine, NEWSWEEK's chief rival, piles on -- and the _Daily Times_
of Pakistan tells us all about it.
Virginia, it just shouldn't get any better than this -- but it always

BOTH of New York's VERY "Liberal" Democratic Senators -- Chuck Schumer
and Hillary Clinton -- ALSO voted for the PATRIOT Act.
The vote was VERY lopsided in FAVOR of the PATRIOT Act -- in both the
HOUSE and the SENATE.

Michael Portillo presents a new look at the historical events
mostly referred to as "the Armada".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/forgot_to_remember
This is definitely a determined attempt to make us look past the

Is the Norman contribution to modern UK ancestry really small?
For various reasons I became interested in the question of to what
extent Norman ancestry plays a role in the modern British people.
What I found was that apparently, obvservers think that that the

"Man Bites Fox"
"Performance artist Mark McGowan, who counts among his feats pushing a
peanut along the road to Tony Blair's Downing street home with his nose,
has eaten a fox, in protest at the public fixation with a government ban

In an article about the US budget deficit, a quote appears as follows
..... Walker said. "The American people have to understand where we
are and where we're headed."
And where is that? "No republic in the history of the world lasted