History Forum / General / British History / January 2010

(A bit of humor, probably fair hunk of truth,
probably fits just about anywhere)
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.
Phillip Hewitson, an elderly man, from Norwich UK, was going up to bed,

Let's move on from the Henry V discussion.
Alfred the Great was not the first English speaking
monarch because, 200 hundred years before Hastings,
he would have spoken Anglo-Saxon.

Source: "Heroes", Paul Johnson, Harper Collins, New York, 2007.
1. He regarded victory at Agincourt as God
given, and this humbled him for life because
he was heavily outnumbered.  He was never

Sock-puppet Benedict XVI was propped up by his minders
recently to comment on the Great Global-Warming Cult, in
which he brought up the plight of the poor pacific islanders
gradually sinking into the briny, and the ongoing foetid

1.  Adolph Hitler came to supreme power in Germany.
2. Joseph Stalin hailed the end of the first Five Year Plan
   and the electrification of Russia.
3. Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd

This costume drama produced by Martin Scorsese runs
onl;y 90 minutes:  it was over just as I had settled into the
QV world in total submersion.
At the beginning of her reign and before the entrance of

Does anyone know if the old British cemeteries in Delhi, such as the
Nicholson and Lothian have been transcribed? Is there a book one can
purchase. I was there in person last month, had a great wander around
and would love to have a transcription if possible.

St. Louis, Missouri (CNN) -- An employee at a transformer manufacturing
company opened fire on his co-workers Thursday, killing three people before
turning the gun on himself, police said.
Five other ABB Inc. employees were wounded in the shooting in the company's

(CNN) -- A man dressed in black walked into the lobby of a federal
courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, pulled a shotgun from underneath his
jacket and opened fire Monday, killing a court security officer and
injuring a deputy U.S. marshal, an FBI spokesman said.

YAHOO tells us it is Bahrain.  My guess is the Kingdom of
Jordan.  We have not heard of a killing or bombing in Jordan
since 2007 when Al Zarkawi Pasha orchestrated the bombing
of a wedding reception.  And he, thanks to God and the

THE DISNEY'S  DID NOT ALLOW JEWS TO WORK FOR THEM.
THEREFORE, WHATEVER THE 33 CLUB IS - IT MOST
CERTAINLY NOT JEWISH
WHY  OH  WHY  DO  THEY  GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO