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Anonymous Coward User ID: 105508 United States 12/21/2006 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You might not know this, but on the internet typing in All-Caps is called screaming, and is considered impolite. I suppose that you might be one of those people who don't care what other people think, which is fine, except that apparently you want them to care about what you think. |
Blue_23 User ID: 172278 United States 12/21/2006 01:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You might not know this, but on the internet typing in All-Caps is called screaming, and is considered impolite. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 105508I suppose that you might be one of those people who don't care what other people think, which is fine, except that apparently you want them to care about what you think. |
Isaac Brock died for us User ID: 83547 Canada 12/21/2006 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Israel was formed under the British UN mandate so there is a historical tie with Britain. Now that they have diplomatic relations with Egypt and Jordan,two countries formerly under British rule, who are not members of the commonwealth, what should be the problem? owner of an extensive collection of curios from the exotic orient |
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HOMER User ID: 37826 Australia 12/21/2006 07:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As someone who respects your historical acumen, GL, you'll probably be aware of the the ancient tales of Gog Magog in Britain. "Adrian Gilbert writes in The New Jerusalem: Once more we have to go back to Geoffrey of Monmouth's book, in which there is a story of how, when Brutus and his Trojans arrived in Britain, they found the island sparsely inhabited by a race of giants. One of these, called Gogmagog, wrestled with a Trojan hero called Corineus and was eventually thrown to his death from a cliff-top called in consequence 'Gogmagog's Leap'. In the 1811 translation into English of Brut Tysilio, a Welsh version of the chronicles translated by the Rev. Peter Roberts, there is a footnote suggesting that Gogmagog is a corrupted form of Cawr-Madog, meaning 'Madog the great' or 'Madog the giant' in Welsh. [...] In another version of the Gogmagog tale, the Recuyell des histories de Troye, Gog and Magog are two separate giants. In this story they are not killed but brought back as slaves by Brutus to his city of New Troy. Here they were to be employed as gatekeepers, opening and closing the great gates of the palace. The story of Gog and Magog, the paired giants who worked the gates of London, was very popular in the middle ages and effigies of them were placed on the city gates at least as early as the reign of Henry VI. These were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, but so popular were they that new ones were made in 1708 and installed at the Guildhall. This pair of statues was destroyed in 1940 during the Blitz, the third great fire of London, when the roof and much of the interior furnishings of the Guildhall were burnt. A new pair of the statues was carved to replace them when the Guildhall was repaired after the war. [pp. 60-61]" Has a certain faction had a very long association with geographical Britain and believes it has a G-d given right to rule the world etc etc.? Probably so. P.S WHO THE HELL CARES IF YOU WRITE IN CAPS?!? |
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Homer User ID: 37826 Australia 12/21/2006 07:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The first-century Roman historian Tacitus wrote: "Some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was driven from his throne by the power of Jupiter [an apparent blending of myth with fact]. Evidence of this is sought in the name. There is a famous mountain in Crete called Ida; the neighboring tribe, the Idaei, came to be called Judaei by a barbarous [i.e., non-Greco-Roman] lengthening of the national name" (Tacitus, The Histories, Book 5, sec. 2, Great Books of the Western World, 1952, Vol. 15). So it would appear that the tribe of Judah was represented in the early Israelite immigration into Greece." Was there a mount Ida in ancient Britain? Can't find any reference to it googling but I thinbk there was. Read the original Where Troy Once Stood by Wilkens a while ago and seem to remember it being on the map as being just outside what is now London. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 161076 United States 12/22/2006 09:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | JUST CHECKED THE DATE, ITS NOT APRIL FIRST. SO READ THIS BBC REPORT. Quoting: GREY LENSMANQUOTE Rwanda says it is applying to join the Commonwealth, despite its historic association with Francophone countries. Co-operation Minister Rosemary Museminali said she hoped its application would be approved during the 2007 Commonwealth summit in Uganda. Relations with France have deteriorated in recent months after a French judge implicated Rwanda's President Paul Kagame in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Mozambique is the only Commonwealth member without historical UK ties. It joined the organisation 11 years ago. A Commonwealth team led by former Jamaican Prime Minister Percival Patterson is to consider the application. Algeria, Yemen, Sudan, Israel and the Palestinian territories are said to be seeking to join in November next year too. Currently, the Commonwealth group has 53 member countries - mainly made up of countries with colonial ties to the UK. Row The 1994 shooting down of a plane carrying then Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana triggered the genocide in which around 800,000 people died. President Kagame has dismissed accusations of his involvement in the killing of his predecessor - accusing France of actively supporting the killings during the genocide. France denies involvement in the genocide and says its military interventions helped Rwandans. Diplomatic relations between Rwanda and France have broken down and Rwanda has expelled French organisations working in the country. UNQUOTE WHEN WILL TH USA JOIN???????????????????? MERRY CHRISTMAS GL WE GOT OUR HANDS FULL WE NEED TO LIBERATE MEXICO FIRST SO WAIT IN LINE WE WILL LIBERATE YOU GUYS NEXT |