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Another interesting 360? view : Westminster Abbey !http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12819684
After reading that speech, I didn't find anything “racist”. All I found is fear… TMHO Powell's speech is based on fear.
Depending on interpretationIn context:http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/20/newsid_2489000/2489357.stm
Although I couldn't open your link, I've found some information about this quote :Myths of the Vietnam War, Part 2: 'We had to destroy the village...'http://www.examiner.com/conservative-politics-in-national/myths-of-the-vietnam-war-part-2-we-had-to-destroy-the-village
That's a good question. I suppose carrier pigeons could be used to transmit information as well and the enemy would not suspect it.
China trains army of messenger pigeons !http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8356921/China-trains-army-of-messenger-pigeons.html http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20110304.aspx
Smile you're being tracked !http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13145562
The documents reveal that World War I spies engraved messages on toe-nails and used lemon juice to write invisible letters. Terrible! 8)
But wasn't there a "search" for Solomon's mines? I'm thinking of something along the lines of the quest for the Holy Grail.
I didn't find anything about Solomon's mines and Arthurian legends, except the pentangle on Gawain's shieldhttp://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs992b/CharAnalisys.htm
King Solomon's Mines is a novel by Sir H. Rider Haggard in 1885.Or it can refer to an ancient copper-production center at Khirbat en-Nahas (present-day southern Jordan) where archaeologists have excavated new artifacts. Radiocarbon dates placing the bulk of industrial-scale production at Khirbat en-Nahas in the 10th century BCE ? in line with biblical narrative on the legendary rule of David and Solomon.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027174545.htm http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/11-23Archaeologist.asp
American JihadFor years Americans believed themselves isolated from what seemed, in the West, a European problem. Homegrown jihad is becoming a problem for the US.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13068133
a Harris Interactive poll in January found that 54% of Americans believe the South was fighting for states' rights rather than to preserve slavery, with 69% believing the North was fighting to preserve the Union rather than to abolish the institution."There was something that deeply embedded the Civil War into the mentality of the South, because the South lost," "I think the South is a region that demonstrates... the truth of William Faulkner's statement: The past is not dead. It's not even over."http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13040351 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13022128
