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Pray tell, how does the cornerstone go when you have a mile-long stone wall that goes in one direction?
Ask the Chinese, they seem to be pretty good at 1000 mile long walls. ;D
In California we have what are known as Coolie walls everywhere. They were built from the 1860's probably through the turn of the century and hundreds of miles still survive and are still in use.
My collection not nearly as large as Stump's. I have maybe 50 books and Bios of the Civil War, A dozen or so on local history and about 7 or eight on the Little Bighorn battle, a few more on Native Americans. My interest is mostly American history and local history.
H.H., which Little Bighorn books do you have and which do you think are the best? I have Wert's Bio on Custer as well as Connells book on him as well.
Oh Yea. He even printed his own money and he was so beloved by the people of San Fransisco that they accepted it (but only from him)
Yea I just checked go look at the links I posted and you will get the final price on most of the items.
Well then maybe you can tell me how to build a stone wall. I'm trying to build a very small one myself and I'm probably missing something (is there a wrong way to put stones on top of one another)?
Yes, make sure all fingers and toes are clear. ;D ;D
The bio brings out that Truman and his cabinet told Japan if they did not surrender they would be hit with a weapon of extreme destruction but did not reveal the nature of the weapon.
I had heard of Hatshepsut before. What rank did Cleopatra obtain? Was she not pharaoh?
I cant be quite sure but I dont think so. I could be wrong though.
The Japanese were sending out feelers to the U.S. for peace terms. The Japanese knew they were beaten, and all that they originally fought for was already lost by the time we were firebombing Tokyo. We, however, wanted an unconditional surrender and the removal of the emperor from power. Had we agreed to a conditional surrender, the Japanese would have taken it and saved face with the realization that their homeland remained in tact. Having said this, I think that we made our terms unconditional just so that we could demonstrate our new atomic weapons to our current and future enemies. Of course, this is just my opinion and there are other interpretations that can be and have been made.
Thats an interesting point you make Don, I am reading a Truman Bio right now and in it they touch on the fact that Trumans advisors advised Truman to that fact, that a demonstration would be beneficial to the U.S. If the world knew the military might of the U.S.
So I get on the site and there are 87 spiders from Yahoo crawling around, to bad the 'most ever online' isnt working, that would look good in the statistics department.
I guess it would seem to me if you were going back in time you would know Hitlers atrocities, unless you were being taught history by that nut in Iraq.
I recognize Blazing saddles!
Don't remember it from "Blazing Saddles" but it wouldn't surprise me if they did a take-off on it. Mel Brooks can't resist making fun of things, especially when they are approaching iconic status.
I just remembered this quote was also from, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" with Humphery Bogart. I guess Mel brooks 'borrowed' from that as well
