History Forum / War History / War History / December 2004

"Perhaps the most curious features of Gans's essay to anyone familiar
with either these debates and/or the web article "Roman Traction
Systems" are the author's almost complete disregard of the evidence
provided by Weller et al., and his failure to address many of the points

We recently updated our Gettysburg site.
Happy holidays.
Tom and Cassie

Recte:
Translation From The Gansian Into English:
"I long ago gave up trying to counter my many critics with logic, reason
and historical facts -- in fact I don't even BELIEVE in historical

There you have it folks, in spades.
To the British, just OWNING an unlicensed firearm is a WORSE crime than
BURGLARY.
Wacky....

Recte:
Bigotry towards Americans is quite in fashion these days.
Water off a duck's back...
Most of it is simply Jaundiced, Jaded Envy.

Good Choice....
Pogues & Poguettes On The Run.
DSH
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       The news morons keep babbling about how soft skin tents contribute
to the danger the troops have in Iraq. An explosion in a hard walled (and
roofed) building would contain much of the force and very probably increase
the number of kia/wia. Especially so if it was a ...

"The difficulty is that when people say 'liberal' in American political
discourse, they actually mean 'socialist', and when they say
'conservative', they mean 'liberal' in the old 19th century fashion."
Christopher Candy

<quote>
... "I was born in Auschwitz," the shopkeeper told the soldier. "I was
born in Auschwitz," he kept saying.
Nornberg was very confused, because he'd always assumed the old man

I say again:
And you obviously were not very much interested in it or you would have
asked him about it -- until you found out.
Your loss.

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U.S. Nuclear Weapon to Be Used in Case of N. Korea`s Invasion
NOVEMBER 07, 2004 23:25
by Won-Jae Park (parkwj@donga.com)

Rupert has certainly earned it.
He has revolutionized the American News Media -- and is changing
American Culture for the better -- for ALL Americans.
This is the fellow who used to refer to Lenin as "The Great Teacher"--

To Kill an American
You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was
actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper
an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

"Christmas crackdown on binge-drinking"
17 Dec 2004
"LONDON (AFP) - Britain made merry-making with drunken excess grounds
for a steep fine during the Christmas season, with the government