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Postby g-one » Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:33 pm

I miss Schumi. Dec. was already 4 years since the accident.
I hope Mick turns out more like Michael than Ralf. ;)
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Wed Jan 03, 2018 6:29 pm

That would be nice, yes. But first, I hope Seb gives Lewis a good run for his money after years of losing.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby g-one » Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:51 am

That would be nice. He'll have to keep the wheel banging to a minimum. :D
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:56 am

January 4th, 1948 - Burma gains independence from Britain. Lucky bastards!
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:24 am

January 25th, 1759 - birth of Robert Burns, "national poet of Scotland", basis for shortbread caricatures, dressing up and poncy dinners.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:14 am

I like haggis so will be scoffing some tonight, not a fan of Burn's Suppers though.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:23 am

I like haggis, but cannot abide all of the Burn's Supper pish.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:39 am

Indeed. I have been at one Burn's supper in the last ten years and it managed to be only marginally awful.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:41 pm

Good ol' Frankie.

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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:34 pm

26th January is Republic Day in India, one of the several days in the year when they celebrate us fucking off and leaving them alone.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:07 pm

January 27, 1945: The Red Army liberates the few thousand survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The reports of the atroicities there are met with incredulity in the West, until the British see Bergen-Belsen and the Americans Dachau in April.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:59 pm

January 29th, 1746: The Prince at Bannockburn. Lord George Murray and the Highland chiefs at Falkirk sent a letter to the Prince, requesting him to retire to the Highlands as the army through sickness and desertion was not fit to meet the Duke of Cumberland. To this course the Prince most reluctantly agreed.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:41 am

Heid the Ba wrote:26th January is Republic Day in India, one of the several days in the year when they celebrate us fucking off and leaving them alone.


30th January is Martyr's Day in India, marking the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on this date in 1948.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:32 pm

85 years ago, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler Chancellor.

In a free, fair, equal and secret general election in November, 1932, Germans had given Hitler's party, the NSDAP, a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. Hitler's ascendance became possible when another far-right party, the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP) agreed to form a coalition government under Hitler.

Don't anyone tell me that we have to respect each, any and every head of a freely elected government because it's the will of the people. Voters can make terrible decisions.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:54 pm

Yes, yes they can.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:43 pm

And they do. With monotonous regularity.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lance » Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:49 pm

Arneb wrote:85 years ago, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler Chancellor.

In a free, fair, equal and secret general election in November, 1932, Germans had given Hitler's party, the NSDAP, a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. Hitler's ascendance became possible when another far-right party, the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP) agreed to form a coalition government under Hitler.

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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:10 pm

January 31st, 1788: death of HRH Prince Charles Edward Stuart
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:42 pm

January 1st, 1968: Beginning of the Tet offensive.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Fri Feb 02, 2018 3:39 pm

February 2nd, 1709: Alexander Selkirk (fae Fife, ken?) is rescued after spending 4 years and 4 months alone on an island in the Pacific, providing the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.

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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Fri Feb 02, 2018 3:53 pm

February 2, 1943 - 75 years ago - saw the capitulation of the 6th German Army at Stalingrad, USSR. The army's commander, General Paulus, ordered his officers not to commit suicide and instead share their subordinates' fate of becoming Soviet POWs. He gave himself up on Jan 31. The death toll of this battle is hard to imagine. Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Romania, Hungary) are thought to have about three quarter million men, while the Soviet Union lost 1.1 million. 110,000 Axis were captured during the Battle of Stalingrad, about 6,000 of them eventually returned. Paulus was one of them, living in the GDR after his release.

Verdun, Ypers and the Alsace summits eventually became symbols of the rapprochment of the warring parties, eventually even of Franco-German friendship. The fields of Stalingrad remain gashing wounds in the remembrance of all nations involved. There have been no gestures of reconciliation over these graves.

My father, who was six at the time, remembers he heard the news in the streets of Lauenburg. He ran up the stairs to their flat, gushing the news to his mother, who was busy peeling potatos. "Now we've lost the war", she said calmly. He remenbers this moment, 75 years later...
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Arneb » Sat Feb 03, 2018 3:25 pm

Lance wrote:
Arneb wrote:85 years ago, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler Chancellor.

In a free, fair, equal and secret general election in November, 1932, Germans had given Hitler's party, the NSDAP, a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. Hitler's ascendance became possible when another far-right party, the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP) agreed to form a coalition government under Hitler.

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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Sat Feb 03, 2018 9:45 pm

Lianachan wrote:February 2nd, 1709: Alexander Selkirk (fae Fife, ken?) is rescued after spending 4 years and 4 months alone on an island in the Pacific, providing the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.

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I drive through his birthplace of Lower Largo on a regular basis.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Lianachan » Sat Feb 03, 2018 11:44 pm

Cool, I thought you might do.
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Re: On this day in history...

Postby Heid the Ba » Sun Feb 04, 2018 8:24 pm

4th February, birthday of Rosa parks.
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