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A newsgroup for British History
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Andrew Bonar Law
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Andrew Bonar Law is one of those Prime Ministers who has been largely forgotten since his term of office was so brief so I won't be surprised if interest in this question is minimal.
Law was born in New Brunswick in 1858, 9 years before New Brunswick became one of the founding provinces of Canada. He relocated to Britain... more »
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A chapter of forgotten history; "Unwelcome Heroes"
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Unwelcome Heroes
On the 8th of June 1946, a huge Victory Parade marched all the way from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace. It was a truly great parade. Units from all allied countries were marching in front of the Royal Family and a cheering crowd. Representatives from the Great Britain, USA, France, Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway and Transjordan were in attendance. Even units from Fiji were marching proudly .However, representatives of one nation were not invited. None of the 228,000 Polish soldiers who had served under the British High Command were invited to the Parade because the Labour government considered it too controversial.... more »
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P2P Share files by email on Thu 04/25/2013
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Do you think that Peer-to-Peer, FTP
IRC technologies etc...are too much complicated !? There is a simpler technology to use, Autosend. This software allows file-sharing by only using your e-mail account. Autosend allows sharing files on your computer through regular email. It is an automatic file mailer... more »
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question on treaties and effects
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My educational background is a sketchy one barely anchored, in arts and the abstract humanities. I have skirted round history a lot in discomfort at my poor memory skills and in awareness that I do better elsewhere. I am often not far off from being distraught to hear locals in my small home town in south east England talking in a horrible fashion about what our newspapers and politicians term immigration. I duck out of getting involved in the talk because it has a stink of what must have been said in 30s Germany. More recently I learned that as recent as 120 years ago my own bloodline was French-Irish, and I'm unsurprised and pleased to learn this, to have this confirmation.... more »
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A Decade Later
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It was on this newsgroup 10 years ago when a minority of
us objected to the start of the Iraq war for a variety of
reasons. We were rapidly called names and told we were idiots who understood nothing.
We were right.
-- --- Paul J. Gans
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