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Robert E. Lee for his gentlemanly way and grace in defeatThomas J. Jackson for his brilliant Valley Campaign against overwhelming oddsHiram Ulysses Grant for his bulldog tenacity(His real name was not Ulysses Simpson Grant)
So why so many Civil War figures?
From recent history:Marx, Freud, Einstein, perhaps Gandhi
So how have Marx and Freud influenced you? I agree they have been influential to society in general, but how do they relate to you personally?
That's a good idea. But do we apply it only to civil/human rights or across the board to other policies as well? With some issues compromise is the only solution. Where's the line that we draw between compromise or holding to principle?
By the way, if you go into your forum profile settings you can add your “Favorite Historical Period” preference now and it won't show up double. Enjoy.
Something that's interesting about this is that although Spain lost her power over all these colonies, she planted her seed by spreading her language and customs to her colonies. I think Latin America is probably much closer to Spain than it is to the United States, even though the latter are closer geographically. Can the same be said of England and her former colonies?
Here's the way I look at it: I'm much more comfortable giving up some privacy rights for the sake of greater security under a Republican in the White House than I am under a Democrat White House. At this point, with Hillary looming on the horizon, perhaps we might be best to jump on the “greater privacy” bandwagon. 😀
What's the definition of “a State party” here?
I believe it's simply a party organized within a government. Section 3 seems to suggest this, and Section 4 ("(4) UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT") seems to describe actual terrorists who don't claim to be under any form of government.
I'm fine with wherever. If you want more people to view it and perhaps comment on it, it's fine in Recent History.
- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall
- Do you believe in miracles?
- Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes
- Ich ben ein berliner
- Kilroy was here
You're into conspiracy theories lately, huh Phid?
Actually I thought it was interesting to hear about and quite startling - after all, it was an Israeli attack on a U.S. ship. I'm still in the dark as to why people think Israel would have wanted to attack the United States. What would the motive have been?
I wonder, then, at which point in time Napoleonic tactics were abandoned. If they were still utilized in the 1860s, then it was between this time and World War I that they were abandoned. I know that WWI was the great “trench war” where lines were dug in and didn't move very easily. I wonder therefore if the 1910s was the time that steady firing formations were abandoned.
I agree that cg has ruined some movies in recent years when it's used too prominently. I think that this was the major disappointment of George Lucas' last three Episodes. I don't know how some of the stuff passed the editing table.I also think that the social commentary that comes out of movies nowadays isn't great at all. In fact it's all the same-old-same-old polarizing socio-political commentary without any real inspection of the underlying nature of man. I saw the Mark Wahlberg remake of Planet of the Apes a few years ago and I wasn't impressed by it. I think they lost the original touch of the movie. Then again, you can't really recreate a great movie simply by copying it word for word.
What's interesting about this, of course, is that it sounds so conspiratorial and yet is fact, and it therefore gives at least some circumstantial “proof” that other “sinister” programs might have been or be in development. I'm not necessarily one to jump on the bandwagon, but I can see how one theory can lead to another which can lead to another.
Not familiar with WWI fighter aircraft, but…the Martinsyde BuzzardMartinsyde Buzzard[/wiki]?
That's really something. I looked into it and it was a British idea called Project HabakkukProject Habakkuk[/wiki]. This blog here says the idea was backed by Churchill and others, but in the end it was abandoned…and that the idea was rather preposterous anyway!
I had been meaning to get out there at some undefined time to visit friends, but I haven't been able to do so in a while. Unfortunately I'm not sure when I'll have time to do so; I'm already going out to NY for a wedding in March so my allotment of trips is being “configurated”. Well, I could tell you the names of some bars to visit in D.C. at least….
