History Forum / General / Medieval Period / May 2008

John McCain keeps screwing the pooch.   The old bastard is fully in
"campaing mode" Bush style.
His only advantage is that he can credibly claim feeble memory for his
faux pas and deceptions, like saying that Mosul is quiet.

Hving read the Poem aoutthe battle can onyone give me a link to a
goodsite where i can read an account of the battel iirc it was the
last battle where  galletys were extenively used by both  sides .

As expected President Bush last budget proposal is the sheer
embodiment of the American Citizen paying for a bad president's
mistakes.
The cost of Bush's War and misguided policies is evident throughout.

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Wonderful.  I can just see it now.  "What are your qualifications
for this job"?

"His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever
known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred,
being able to bias his decision."
"He was indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great

I've seen a couple of websites in which Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter
of Edward IV, is described as having been heiress-presumoptive to the throne
from  her birth in 1466 until her father's deposition in 1470, or if we take
a strictly Yorkist perspective, until her brother was ...

Every year, the current political climate in Europe can be assessed from this vital competition, and I sense a disturbing trend! Having just watched all the entries, I can no longer stand the tension , and will be going to the pub rather than suffer the horror of seeing the votes ...

"Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq
war began, that figure was less than one suicide attempt a day."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/01/military.suicides/index.html
The tough America of World War II is but a memory.

it does!
As if the world has too few problems!  Now
the idle poor have dredged up a new one.
Polar Bears!

A few weeks ago I spent three days at Penn State, located about
a five hour drive from New York.  The occasion was their annual
Medieval Conference, this year titled "Magna Carta and the World
of King John".

Can anyone here recommend a good book covering aspects of castles such
as the design of castles, engineering, actual construction,
organization/management of personnel in terms of building castles (how
were they fed? paid? recruited? manged? etc), and related matters?  Or

Only 3 centuries ago Delhi could have rightly been called the
'epicentre' of wealth and power
of the entire world.The Mughals established a unified India and
enouraged Trade, art , commerce.

Pogue Stewart...
Thick as a brick.
Smashing his drunken noodle against that cobblestone didn't help either.
He needs to understand that:

Chapter <whatever> Everything you ever need to know about the Franks
Military success of the Franks was mostly based on the following
combination of factors [1]: They “had been lazy-minded, ill-
disciplined, hated any exertion and inconvenience, got sick easily and

Neither McCain nor Romney will make it to the White House, and either
of them will probably get nominated.
Both are hawks and the great majority of the people have had enough of
Iraq.   They certainly will not vote for a candidate who is