Posted on 06/26/2008 5:59:47 PM PDT by blam
Me too. I'm a sucker for a cold mystery or a good climb... I don't climb myself, but I'm a damned good armchair quarterback... ;-) ...
How’d they taste?
Like chicken?
Northwest Passage Chorus - by Stan Rogers (dad):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RMuHWq2_4
Complete Version - sung by Nathan Rogers (son):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6Lu4vskmg&NR=1
Enjoy!
lead poisoning is said to affect the ability to make rational decisions. which might explain why thing fell apart so soon
I find it heartening that all agree on the fascination with the past. Curiously enough the greatest disaster for many years to Victorian Britain occurred around that time as well. It was the retreat from Kandahar by 17,000 people, a third of them soldiers. British Army and Indian allies. The Afghan chiefs, paid in gold, for safe conduct across the Khyber Pass, double crossed them. The Afghans caught them in the snowy wastes. Eventually about twenty souls staggered to safety at Jalalabad, India.
A bit off topic, but more Victorian history. Today, the English speaking peoples are still facing treachery in Afghanistan.
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