Posted on 08/23/2008 7:45:39 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Get onto the B1217 – the Ferrybridge-to-Tadcaster road – just after the M1 joins the A1M, and you’ve crossed that unmapped line where the north stops being grim and begins to be bracing. Go through Saxton, past the Crooked Billet pub, and on your left you’ll see rising farmland, green corn and copses – an old landscape, untroubled by poets or painters or the hyperbole of tourist boards, but handsome, still and hushed. The road is straight; it knows where it’s going, hurrying along, averting its gaze. Through the tonsured hedge you might just notice a big old holly tree on the side of the road. It seems out of place.
Get out of the car, adjust to the hissing silence and step behind the tree. Hidden from the road you’ll find a gothic stone cross of some age. Nobody knows who put it here or where it’s from. For centuries it lay in the ditch. A date recently inscribed on its base, March 28, 1461, is wrong. It should be the next day: the 29th, Sunday. The movable feast – Palm Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
From the Urban Dictionary
argy bargy = a heated discussion, perhaps one that has become bad-tempered enough to amount to a spat or minor quarrel
...a common English expression for a nasty argument - perhaps moving into a shoving match...
Indeed, he means dysentery.
The Romans killed more Brits [Celts] in one day when they settled Bouddica’s hash.
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Wow, I'll say!
Thanks for posting this.
A good one.
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When you have fifteen minutes to kill, this story is fantastic.
more:
Skeletons Of Bloodiest Day (Towton - 1461AD)
The Press | 9-12-2006 | Nadia Jefferson-Brown
Posted on 09/12/2006 2:45:57 PM PDT by blam
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Good catch / Well put.
http://www.athenapub.com/britsite/tacitus1.htm
According to some writers, not less than eighty thousand Britons were put to the sword. The Romans lost about four hundred men, and the wounded did not exceed that number.
Many, many thanks to you both; a truly interesting trip back in time.
Unfortunately, it took me a lot longer than fifteen minutes; I had to copy off the pages and format them, plus went to the link at the end and snatched a couple of their pictures.
“In comparison, the Battle of Iwo Jima cost the lives of about 7,000 Americans...”
And the battle of Okinawa cost 12,000 American lives over 82 days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
And by this time, evaluating the fact Japan would go on sacrificing everybodies’ lives (their own soldiers, America’s soldiers and any civilians) Truman wisely dropped two nuclear bombs.
A similar decision could be faced by an American President. Obama obviously lacks the judgement or character to make a good decision, either way.
The Presidency is not only the officeholder; it is also the people he selects for advice.
Any confidence in people Obama would select? Rev. Wright, Michelle, Bill Ayers, Rezco?
I’m sure that if he’d written his “histories” any differently, we wouldn’t have ANY of his subsequent plays.
Outstanding story. However, there is writing, and there is overwriting.
Loved that part. As if the writer knew that a recounting of history is often tedious and bland.
She Crucified Her Enemies And Burnt London To The Ground.
Meet Britain’s First Feminist, Boadicea
Daily Mail | 2-6-2008 | Paul Johnson
Posted on 02/07/2008 3:19:53 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966717/posts
For perspective, Gettysburg over three days is said to have had 10,000 dead.
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