This day in history.....
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Mare
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May 19
1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, is beheaded in the Tower of London after she was convicted of adultery.
1643: Representatives from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a military alliance.
1900: The Tonga Islands are made a British protectorate; they become an independent nation in 1970.
1935: T. E. Lawrence, the British soldier and adventurer known as Lawrence of Arabia, dies in England from a motorcycle accident.
1967: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States ratify a treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, is beheaded in the Tower of London after she was convicted of adultery.
1643: Representatives from four New England colonies meet in Boston to form a military alliance.
1900: The Tonga Islands are made a British protectorate; they become an independent nation in 1970.
1935: T. E. Lawrence, the British soldier and adventurer known as Lawrence of Arabia, dies in England from a motorcycle accident.
1967: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States ratify a treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
AlphaTroll
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1659 The first Khoikhoi War begins
1986 SADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
1994 Kamuzu Banda losses election
1998 Voortrekkerhoogte changes to Thaba Tshwane
1986 SADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
1994 Kamuzu Banda losses election
1998 Voortrekkerhoogte changes to Thaba Tshwane
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
Mare said:
Hey Lopan...would this be considered secessionism? Traitors?
I had the unique experience of having a British professor for the portion of American history in college that dealt with the Revolutionary War. Made ya think about things a little differently to say the least. Our essay question on the final was something like, "Explain why the Colonists should not have been treated as traitors by the British."
Gato_Solo
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Lopan
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SouthernN'Proud said:
Honestly, American - British history was hardly taught in school. We did some about the wild west, so I have never really thought about it. When you do everything from the Iron age to the Falklands war, you tend to pick all the juicier bits. Norman invasion, Hundred years war, Tudors, Empire (India and Africa were more imporatnt), Victorian engineers and inventors. Those are just the main bits.
Some dudes that went over the pond and set up camp did it during the Napoleonic era, whilst there was some seriously kick ass fights going on.
Lopan
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Gato_Solo
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Lopan said:Does anyone? Seriously though the American war of independence doesn't really rank with other battles of the time. Anyways we were a seafaring nation so all our best victories were at sea.
Source
If the American war had been a sea battle, You guys would still be singing god save the queen
Ahh...scarcasm
Gato_Solo
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AlphaTroll
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Gato_Solo said:Niether does the Spanish-American war, either...
Look boys and girls (points in amazement) - a perfect example of a badly constructed sentence. See the use of the words 'neither' and 'either' in the same sentence, with nothing following on the 'either' to justify it's usage? Wow, amazing, absolutely mindboggling!
Mare
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May 20th
1506: Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
1861: North Carolina votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederate States of America.
1927: U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York in his single-engine aircraft Spirit of St. Louis heading to Paris, France; it is the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
1969: U.S. and South Vietnamese troops capture Hamburger Hill after one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
1980: In a referendum, the largely French-speaking province of Québec votes to remain part of Canada.
1506: Christopher Columbus dies in poverty in Spain.
1861: North Carolina votes to secede from the Union and join the Confederate States of America.
1927: U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York in his single-engine aircraft Spirit of St. Louis heading to Paris, France; it is the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
1969: U.S. and South Vietnamese troops capture Hamburger Hill after one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
1980: In a referendum, the largely French-speaking province of Québec votes to remain part of Canada.
AlphaTroll
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Point? Who said I had to have one of those? 
AlphaTroll
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Why does it show last post made by Mare? Am I invisible or summin?