History - June 2007

2007-06-30 22:53:46 · 3 answers · asked by Sylvia O 1

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2007-06-30 20:52:42 · 16 answers · asked by Yves 1

2007-06-30 20:47:55 · 11 answers · asked by zameer 1

2007-06-30 20:31:23 · 8 answers · asked by Athena 1

Is it a nickname? How do you get Jack out of John?

2007-06-30 19:05:31 · 8 answers · asked by milkl_jaxon 1

all i know is that it used to be a rent house... i am specificlly looking for deaths that may have happened in the house.

2007-06-30 17:30:40 · 6 answers · asked by kassie 2

10 pts to the bestest answer!

2007-06-30 17:00:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

now what i mean is a like a big invasion like a hole army just air droped into the usa like in red dawn what would u do would u grab some guns and fight back of hide and wait it out and if u did fight back wait would u use

2007-06-30 15:38:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

just thinkin about the problems in the world

2007-06-30 14:38:57 · 14 answers · asked by V 4

It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings
during the Reagan Administration.

There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree,but what he said was stunning.

He was being drilled by a senator; 'Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?'

Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.'

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, 'Isn't that just a little excessive?'

'No, sir,' continued Ollie.

'No? And why not?' the senator asked.

'Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir.'

'Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned.

'By a terrorist, sir' Ollie answered.

'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'

'His name is Osama bin Laden, sir' Ollie replied.

At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't.

A couple of people laughed at the attempt.

Then the senator continued.

Why are you so afraid of this man?' the senator asked.

'Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of', Ollie answered.

'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator.

'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.'

The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.

By the way, that senator was Al Gore!

Also: Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986.

The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called 'political prisoners.'

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands,

The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of
State, Warren Christopher, 'insisted' that all prisoners be released.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center.

This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.

It was censored in the US from all later reports.

2007-06-30 14:08:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i was just courios

2007-06-30 14:04:58 · 4 answers · asked by ash4493 1

OK, I don't necessarily support the causes of the war, but I do support our men and men fighting over there. And frankly I think it's a pile of crap that the media is constantly harassing our Armed Forces. how are they supposed to get anything done? Yes, people will die, it's a war and there will be collateral damage. Do you ever wonder if someone like George Patton or Douglas MacArthur, someone who wouldn't put up with all the horses*** from politicians and the media, could lead our army and turn this whole thing around?

2007-06-30 13:43:30 · 10 answers · asked by stpaulsabres 2

I think probably he did! Just an odd thing that happened...

2007-06-30 13:30:34 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
William Samuel Johnson

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Howard Thurman:


In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H. L. Mencken:

2007-06-30 13:25:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have read that they were not widespread but well organised.

2007-06-30 13:10:04 · 1 answers · asked by Roy Nicolas 5

2007-06-30 11:29:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Europe unites in hatred of French
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last Updated: 12:44am BST 17/05/2005



Language, history, cooking and support for rival football teams still divide Europe. But when everything else fails, one glue binds the continent together: hatred of the French.

Typically, the French refuse to accept what arrogant, overbearing monsters they are.

But now after the publication of a survey of their neighbours' opinions of them at least they no longer have any excuse for not knowing how unpopular they are.

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Why the French are the worst company on the planet, a wry take on France by two of its citizens, dredges up all the usual evidence against them. They are crazy drivers, strangers to customer service, obsessed by sex and food and devoid of a sense of humour.

But it doesn't stop there, boasting a breakdown, nation by nation, of what in the French irritates them.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Britons described them as "chauvinists, stubborn, nannied and humourless". However, the French may be more shocked by the views of other nations.

For the Germans, the French are "pretentious, offhand and frivolous". The Dutch describe them as "agitated, talkative and shallow." The Spanish see them as "cold, distant, vain and impolite" and the Portuguese as "preaching". In Italy they comes across as "snobs, arrogant, flesh-loving, righteous and self-obsessed" and the Greeks find them "not very with it, egocentric bons vivants".

Interestingly, the Swedes consider them "disobedient, immoral, disorganised, neo-colonialist and dirty".

But the knockout punch to French pride came in the way the poll was conducted. People were not asked what they hated in the French, just what they thought of them.

"Interviewees were simply asked an open question - what five adjectives sum up the French," said Olivier Clodong, one of the study's two authors and a professor of social and political communication at the Ecole Superieur de Commerce, in Paris. "The answers were overwhelmingly negative."

According to Mr Clodong, the old adage that France is wonderful, it's just the French who are the problem, is shared across Europe.

"We are admired for our trains, the Airbus and Michelin tyres. But the buck stops there," he said.

Another section of the study deals with how the French see the rest of Europe.

"Believe it or not, the English and the French use almost exactly the same adjectives to describe each other - bar the word 'insular'," Mr Coldong said. "So the feelings are mutual."






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2007-06-30 10:59:43 · 24 answers · asked by Matthew P 1

Has it influenced the way Middle easterners view the policies of England? Has this by association influenced their feeling about allies of the British?

2007-06-30 10:21:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-30 09:05:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-30 07:45:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

TRAVEL BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, I just came back from yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-06-30 07:37:51 · 5 answers · asked by cme2bleve 5

1 holy wars
2pilgramages
3 crusades
4 revolutionary wars

2007-06-30 07:19:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

yale, princeton, harvard, columbia?

2007-06-30 06:59:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yes, this IS still a history question!

I am thinking about starting a video editing business, so I would like to make some sample videos. The problem is that I don't have much extra cash at the moment, so it wouldn't be exactly easy for me to get rights to use any modern recordings. Since the phonograpgh was invented more than 100 years ago, though, I am wondering if there are any recordings left from 100 years ago or more. If there are, they would be out of copyright and I could use them without requesting anyone's permission. It doesn't have to be music; I would be happy with anything at all.

Does anyone know where I might find some of these recordings, if they even exist anymore? Or do you have any other ideas about cheap ways to be able to use more modern stuff in my videos?

2007-06-30 06:53:26 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

... Or were they JUST in Poland etc..

2007-06-30 06:40:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

A John Adams
B Ben Franklin
C Thomas Jefferson
D Sam Adams

2007-06-30 06:27:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

A grismill was recently demolished near my house and as I was searching through the rubble, I found a key. The key looks to be very old, but looks like it was made sometime within this century. On the circular portion of the key, it reads it small letters "MADE BY A.B. KEY SHOP 8 MYRTLE AVE. BKLYN NY" I tried to look up the key shop on the internet, but apparently, I can't find it. Can someone give me any info on the A.B. Key Shop? Thanks

2007-06-30 06:14:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-30 06:01:32 · 11 answers · asked by nobelprize_geetha 1

Or is that just a fairy tale?

2007-06-30 05:52:30 · 4 answers · asked by Habt our quell 4

Chinese certainly don't have any problem with migration, so why, over the many centuries didn't they colonize Australia? It was much closer to them than England was. They had the ships to do it. Ghengis Khan and the boys had proved that they can be very roudy and violent. There was an account written many centuries ago about a Venetian merchant (not Marco Polo) who wrote about traveling on a Chinese ship to Australia (e-mail me for more info on that account). I just really don't get it! Australia was extremely sparsely populated by small bands of naked Australoids, so they wouldn't even have to engage in any military conquest either.

2007-06-30 05:45:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous