History Forum / General / British History / October 2005

HEADLINE FOR MAUREEN DOWD 'RED SHOE DIARIES' PHOTO
http://www.drudgereport.com/dowd.htm
Hilarious!
The New York Times publishes a long, whining, hand-wringing,

Does alt.history.british cover anything British, or is it just another forum for college sophomores to spew forth rants about American politics?
Is there a better newsgroup that actually focuses on British history?

Hilarious!
Galloway clearly has caught his tit in the wringer and Senator Norm
Coleman has him in a testicular grip.
Now Bush and Blair can use Galloway The Fraud as a tackling dummy to

"One of the good guys in "State of Fear'' cites Montaigne's axiom:
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which least is known.'' [George
Will, 23 December 2004]  ******
Yep, Gans demonstrates that principle in action every day -- most

An enlarged version of Roger Fenton's 1855 photo of the Crimean Valley
of Death was shown in the UK Guardian for Thursday 6 October. If you can
get hold of a copy, I recommend it - the detail is tremendous.
The photo is online as part of the J Paul Getty Los Angeles collection -

I have read about Monarchs granting permission
by "Royal Charter" for merchants and favoured
people to trade. Sometimes this was international
enterprise, and sometimes to deal with imports.

Peers and peeresses of the Realm are excempt from any corporal
punishmenmt except being cleanly put to death if convicted. (by their
peers, before 1948). Accordingly, in case of treason, they are beheaded
rather than hanged, drawn and quartered.

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Fishing in the USGulf can mean casting a
net in the surf for mullet all the way up to
a shark rig locked in a cradle welded to the

"THE NEXT JUSTICE"
"Harriet Miers
Finally, a Supreme Court nominee who understands real people."
BY JOHN CORNYN

"To date, she [Jacqueline Olin] has ignored my comments but has, as
David B. stated, given talks on the VM.  But as far as I know, without
even addressing my criticisms."
Pogue Towe

Hurricane Ophelia's winds and waves cleared away a lot of sand from the
burried remains of Blackbeard's ship the Queen Anne's Revenge near Beaufort
(pronounced Bofort with a long 'o') North Carolina. The diggers have found
two more cannon, an anchor, and other artifacts. They are ...

It is quite true that many Americans, particularly as we find out more
about the silly-buggers, Anti-American Left in many European nations,
have no desire at all to spend their dollars in certain Foreign
Countries.

Precisely!
Of course no one works there.
Offices where Black works fold and shut all the time.
That's what one gets in a non-competitive Socialist Nanny State --

"Larry Swain" <theswain@operamail.com> wrote in message
news:_cednWa9Fump_MjeRVn-vg@rcn.net...

This seems to be a perfectly good reason for our soldiers having burned
the stinking bodies of the murderous Islamofascist terrorists.
DSH
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