I recall a film in my mid teens,(to hell and back)? Audie Murphy as himself,(or Alan Ladd), standing on top of a tank mowing down dozens of very obliging but dumb Germans.
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I recall a film in my mid teens,(to hell and back)? Audie Murphy as himself,(or Alan Ladd), standing on top of a tank mowing down dozens of very obliging but dumb Germans.
I had one last week, over lunch a US party in context with a conversation we were having as to modern life & all being kept tabs on due to same stated that "the US military invented the internet. " It was a convivial luncheon with ladies present I thought best not to correct him as he might possibly be aggressive if I pointed out that in fact it was a UK professor invented same & who took no patent copyright or whatever to benefit himself or his university from it rather preferring it to be there for all to use. Doubt I would have been believed & anyway he for sure would have believed they had, yes GPS but not the internet.
It won't be long now before they state that an American discovered America, but they will never see the irony of it!
America must have been discovered by an American who else would name a country after themselves
I think New York was named after an old American City.
Brian
Agree with Neville.
Americans are kind and generous people. I like them.
Too bad so many of them believe what they read in the Bible or the Koran if it suits them.
They are also great flag wavers.
Religion and patriotism are OK in small doses. At least they are not into suicide bombing yet, but patriotism can warp into nationalism and remember what that did to the Germans and the Japanese.
Every moron has a gun, even school aged ones, and racism is still rampant.
Still I suppose there are worse places.
I think the Big Apple was named after the (Grand Old) Duke of York when America belonged to Great Britain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Kong
New York was new Amsterdam under the dutch, America was named after amerigo ves pucci the explorer .why I don't know unless he was here before Columbus .I have worked with some americans that live in abject poverty and have no hope of ever getting out of it . they just grew up with it ,and accept it as thier lot .and don't worry about much .the system here is very tough to crack into the so called American dream , as the song says if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere .thank you new York for the opportunity.:cool:
I was only being a bit sarky, I really did know where the name America came from and the same of New York.
Cheers
Brian.
Yo tambien BrianQuote:
Originally Posted by Captain Kong
Correct mate, not many know how the internet came into being. It was as you say two universities in UK who designed it ti communicate with each other and other UK universities. The concept so I was told came from the use of the 'walkie talkies' during WW2Quote:
Originally Posted by leratty