humphrey bogart was in the atlantic convoy. i know cos i saw the film.
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humphrey bogart was in the atlantic convoy. i know cos i saw the film.
JP
Interesting new idea on the reason why WW1 started came out recently in a documentary I was watching regarding the start of WW!.
Apparently the Kaiser was already building a huge fleet of dreadnoughts to rival the British Navy as he was jealous of Britain's influence on the worlds stage and its naval power. Britain had a treaty with France that they would guard the French and Belgium coastal ports against any possible invasion by the Germans. The thing that was holding up the German navy with its new dreadnoughts was that they were all built in the Baltic ports and thus their access to the North Sea was restricted by having to sail up through the bottle neck of the Kattegat where they would be under attack by any blockading fleet (British). The Admiralty 1st Sea Lord Fisher?) recognised the danger that these German dreadnoughts posed to the U.K. should they be able to get into the North Sea. At this same time the Germans were building the Kiel Canal in order to get unfettered access to the North Sea for their Baltic Fleet. With tensions rising in the Balkans the Kaiser ordered the rapid completion and deepening of the Kiel Canal in order to get these new Dreadnoughts through to the North Sea. Co-incidentally days after the Sarajevo assassination the Kiel canal was completed and within a day or so the Kaiser ordered the invasion of Belgium having already massed his troops on the borders. Belgium's neutrality had been supposedly guaranteed by treaties signed after Waterloo and it was the fear that the Germans navy having access to the North Sea and the French ports in the Chanel that brought the U.K. into the war due to its treaty with France to defended the Chanel ports whilst the French would defend the Medi ports.
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JA
brian lovely to meet you and your wife the bit of kit i use is a sony internet player nsz -gs7 great bit of kit:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Kong
A Puerto Rican, a South Korean and a New Yorker walk into a bar
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No, wait. This is not a bar joke. It's about three guys who stun an audience with singing their rendition of ‘Pie Jesu’.
http://www.flixxy.com/forte-americas-got-talent.htm