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Remembering Red victims	31 Dec 2003 07:40 GMT	50
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20031129-105900-4023r.htm The 20th century will be remembered as the bloodiest century in history. A major reason was the 1917 establishment by Vladimir Lenin
WW2 RAOC 1st Division (Army?) 24th Brigade	28 Dec 2003 01:56 GMT	13
Can anyone please help? My father served with the British 1st Division (Army?) RAOC 24th Brigade "K" Company. I believe this unit may have gone by another name such as the Scottish or Welsh Guards. Can anyone tell me what the common name was for this unit and where I may be able to ...
WWI Pilot Rotation Policies	24 Dec 2003 22:46 GMT	7
Most observers agree that the Alies pilot rotation policies helped them achieve air control, because it meant that the green pilots got to learn from the experienced ones and kept them alive longer. What about in WWI? Were there policies like that in WWI? If there
Peninsula War map?	22 Dec 2003 23:19 GMT	2
Grateful if someone could point me to a good quality online map of the entire Iberian peninsula covering the main battlefields - a Google search has so far not turned anything up.
Re: British Hooligans Lay Anti-Bush Plans	19 Dec 2003 09:55 GMT	15
"Renia" <renia@NOTLIKELEYotenet.gr> wrote in message news:bnkdjh$8ro$1@usenet.otenet.gr... > Come on. But even here, various countries have differing drinking
Saddam's Punishment	18 Dec 2003 23:37 GMT	2
I had a thought on the best way to deal with Saddam Hussein. Remember that hole they found him in? Why not put him back in the hole, then let everyone who has anything to say to him come for a visit. They wouldn't be allowed to shoot him or drop hand
Re: Adios Saddam!	18 Dec 2003 09:07 GMT	10
James Taranto The Wall Street Journal ---- 14 December 2003: ----------------------------------------- "...[T]the Associated Press has a delightful quote from the Saudi
We got him!	16 Dec 2003 03:42 GMT	8
We got him! Saddam Hussein has been captured alive in Tikrit.
Re: The Canadian Armed Forces	15 Dec 2003 13:37 GMT	5
Bingo! ZAP!!! D. Spencer Hines Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Re: Why did the Normans Slaughter so many Brits?	14 Dec 2003 22:12 GMT	4
"Vaughan Sanders" <jamie@chalkwell-windsurfing.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:... > "Michael Kuettner" <miksbg@eunet.at> wrote in message
"England expects every man to do his duty"	13 Dec 2003 14:32 GMT	2
Anybody out there knows which flags, in which order, were used to compose the famous message of Nelson before Trafalgar ? Bests,
Re: _Master And Commander_ ---- Russell Crowe	13 Dec 2003 09:32 GMT	3
"It's a $135 million art film," said Russell Crowe, who is winning praise for his robust portrayal of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring hero, the captain of H.M.S. Surprise, Jack Aubrey. "I'm confident the audience exists."
Who collected all the corpses from battlefields?	12 Dec 2003 17:43 GMT	2
I think there probably were professional corpse-thieves who stole to corpses and sold their clothes, there armor, their weapons and the meat of the corpses on the black market ! There must have been many cannibals around, since war always means
Questions about the massacre of Varus's Roman Legions	09 Dec 2003 17:00 GMT	2
In 9 A.D. three Roman legions (about 20,000 men) under a general called Varus were annihilated by German warriors under Arminius ... I have three questions: 1) Did any romans at all make it out ... or were all killed?
Baby Garand	09 Dec 2003 14:35 GMT	1
On October 1, 1940 the U.S. Army issued an invitation to firearm manufacturers to submit a light rifle design for consideration as a replacement weapon for troops normally issued with only a handgun.