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Hmm! Interesting. I've got quite a few of them in good condition in my foreign coin collection. Have you got any idea of how much they're worth, please? Just out of interest, I'm not planning on selling.I've read his memoirs and I've found it amazing that you don't need to read in between the lines to change your view of WW2.
All in all, the story is that they researched the life of Serbian King Milan when they found that the king and Churchil's mother were in the same hotel 9 months before Winston was born and they were intimate with each other. The same people added that she was such a person that it is not certain she didn't have other lovers at around that time.
But check this big round globe:
The answers to the history quiz I set last week.
1. Barnes-Wallace invented bouncing bombs.
2. The main character of the film "Reach for the sky" is Douglas Bader.
3. Britain entered W.W.2 on 3/9/1939. However, if you're American your short date format changes day & month round so it would be 9/3/1939 which would read 9th March to us when the right answer is the 3rd of September which you write 9/3 while we write it 3/9.
4. Neville Chamberlain declared that Britain was now at war with Germany in 1939.
5. Winston Churchill's middle name was Spencer.
6. Frieze-Green was Welsh.
7. Robert Adam designed Edinburgh's New Town.
8. Charles Rennie McIntosh designed & made jewellery.
9. Charles Rennie McIntosh was from Glasgow.
10. Glasgow was famous for ship-building.
11. America was named after the famous explorer, Amerigo Vespucci.
12. (b) Davy Crockett was a famous mountain man.
13. The native American chief whose men fought against General Custer's army at the battle of Little Bighorn was Sitting Bull.
14. The politicians, David Lloyd George, Nye Bevan & Aneurin Bevin were Welsh.
15. Henry VIII brought Protestantism into England.
16. John Knox brought Protestantism into Scotland.
17. Montezuma was the Aztec emperor at the time when the Conquistadores conquered Mexico.
18. The French Revolution took place during the 18th Century.
19. Asclepios was the Roman God of healing.
20. The Ancient Egyptians held cats sacred.
1. Barnes-Wallace invented bouncing bombs.
2. The main character of the film "Reach for the sky" is Douglas Bader.
3. Britain entered W.W.2 on 3/9/1939. However, if you're American your short date format changes day & month round so it would be 9/3/1939 which would read 9th March to us when the right answer is the 3rd of September which you write 9/3 while we write it 3/9.
4. Neville Chamberlain declared that Britain was now at war with Germany in 1939.
5. Winston Churchill's middle name was Spencer.
6. Frieze-Green was Welsh.
7. Robert Adam designed Edinburgh's New Town.
8. Charles Rennie McIntosh designed & made jewellery.
9. Charles Rennie McIntosh was from Glasgow.
10. Glasgow was famous for ship-building.
11. America was named after the famous explorer, Amerigo Vespucci.
12. (b) Davy Crockett was a famous mountain man.
13. The native American chief whose men fought against General Custer's army at the battle of Little Bighorn was Sitting Bull.
14. The politicians, David Lloyd George, Nye Bevan & Aneurin Bevin were Welsh.
15. Henry VIII brought Protestantism into England.
16. John Knox brought Protestantism into Scotland.
17. Montezuma was the Aztec emperor at the time when the Conquistadores conquered Mexico.
18. The French Revolution took place during the 18th Century.
19. Asclepios was the Roman God of healing.
20. The Ancient Egyptians held cats sacred.
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Can you please send a private message to me with the grading of your coins of this type and I'll have a look. They are quite elusive in higher grades.
Hmm! That beats me, Mastoor unless it's some thing to do with the fact that at 1 time our royalty was related to Russian royalty. I do remember that Prince Harry got married in that uniform. ;0)Ok, Ann, this is another question from your British history. Why Prince Harry and last Russian Tsar Nicholas are in the same uniform? That was Harry's wedding gownremember?
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Yes, pretty much all the European royals are related to each other, considering that they are all related to several German families. I'd like to know the reason, but I don't.
In fact, English King George V (Queen's grandfather) and Tsar Nicholas were very close cousins who were very close to each other, they looked alike and they were often photographed together. (It's one of the greatest mysteries why George V hasn't helped the tsar in 1917)
For that reason, Russian Emperor was given a title of a commander of some British military unit, I forgot the name of it, but that is the same unit, prince Harry is in charge of. That's why they are in the same uniform.
Another funny detail is that they are not normally allowed to wear the uniform unshaven without the monarch's special approval and they were both with the beards.
You know Prince Harry. He finds a way round things & nearly always gets what he wants.
In Britain's part of that, it's a long British history thing caused by conquest which is more than 1000 years old. The last time British royalty & Britain itself was totally British is before the Roman invasion when Celts & Picts & lots of tribal clansmen were in charge. I've been meaning to write something about that but have been very busy recently. I've got a lot written but am in the middle of writing a few longer pieces, trying to lose weight & looking for a new job. Mind you, I like seeing where I'm going & what I've done so often procrastinate when doing the long pieces & if I can think of shorter pieces to do or something else to do instead of or at the same time as the more time-consuming stuff I do. I get a sense of achievement from seeing how much I've done to a high standard of course.
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I must tell you that i received a message from someone who I believe is my Hungarian female fan. I haven't had one for a while. I thought if she wanted and was able to continue conversation this may be the most appropriate place.
That's no problem. Invite her along. The more the merrier. I look forward to getting to know her. I'm glad you enjoy yourself here & hope you both have fun & enjoy yourselves.
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This is the monument erected in memory of around 8,000 Irish soldiers redirected from Gallipoli to the [then] border between Serbia and Greece to help French in the operation of withdrawing of what remained of Serbian armies from Balkans in November 1915. They were sent there in summer uniforms and it was very cold so around 1,000 of them died even before the battle with 99,497 Bulgarian soldiers began. Around 5,000 Irish died there. The monument was erected in 1930.
Thank you very much for the information. I think it's very fitting with it being a Celtic cross & there's a shamrock at the top. I've got Celtic roots in more ways than 1 (lol) & a lot of Celtic crosses. I love Celtic crosses.This is the monument erected in memory of around 8,000 Irish soldiers redirected from Gallipoli to the [then] border between Serbia and Greece to help French in the operation of withdrawing of what remained of Serbian armies from Balkans in November 1915. They were sent there in summer uniforms and it was very cold so around 1,000 of them died even before the battle with 99,497 Bulgarian soldiers began. Around 5,000 Irish died there. The monument was erected in 1930.
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I've listened to some Russian/American scientist who did dna researches and he came to the conclusion that the earliest population of Europe were ancestors of Kelts and Yugoslavs who lived as one group in Central Europe some 30 to 40 thousand years ago before the groups separated. He also said jocularly that you can say those Neanderthals we read about were Kelts and Serbs.
That sounds very interesting. According to my genealogical research most of our family goes way back to the Celts. In our case most of us originally came from Ireland & Scotland. I've also noticed some Viking designs look very similar to Celtic designs.
Pontefract is a Roman town. It gets its name from the fact that when the Romans came into Pontefract the bridge was broken. Pontefract is the Latin for bridge broken or broken bridge, ponte meaning bridge & fract meaning broken. I wonder if that's where we get the word fracture meaning break from.
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Castleford is also a Roman town. It gets its name from the fact there was once a castle near the River with a ford by it. It was originally called Castlebyford but later got shortened to Castleford. If any of you used to watch time team 1 of their shows was set in Castleford & they looked for the remains of the castle & found it. They found out a lot about Roman Castleford.