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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Daniel Dravot in The Man Who Would Be King: "We are not little men..."
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Walking Dead. You'd think they'd learn....never fool with Carol.
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    Is Band of Brothers any good?

    Well written, well directed, well photographed and very well acted...an excellent miniseries well worth watching even if you have no interest in the subject matter.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Interesting that they have the British Government broad arrow mark. I know the British were short of binoculars in the First World War and issued a plea for people to donate theirs. Although this particular style was fairly obsolete by that time all sorts of ones just like it were donated and...
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    Your most historically interesting militaria

    After over 50 years of collecting I have a few interesting things and although I'm primarily a collector of Boer War and World War One items, one of my treasured possessions is the last White Ensign flown by the RCN corvette HMCS Chambly in 1945. Wouldn't give that one up for anything.
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    • Forum: WWII
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Better Call Saul and Forged in Fire. I think Forged has about run out for me. How many times can we watch these guys pound out knives and then see if they hold up to attacking coconuts and steel barrels, etc. It was interesting for about two episodes. I hung on a bit longer because the last...
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    Today in History

    On this day, in 1831, the French Foreign Legion was founded. "Beau Geste" was still many years in the future.
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    Dust Jackets: Meant to Be Tossed?

    I've found that, if one is lucky enough to find a book with a dust jacket from before 1930, it tends to be fairly plain, sometime plainer than the actual covers of the book itself. This could imply that they were intended to protect the covers, rather than being a marketing device. I don't...
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    Any good pre Edwarian era adventure novels?

    G. A. Henty's books and the Boys Own Annual are both precursors of the Hardy Boys. Henty is more late Victorian, however.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    No need to apologize...if we all liked the same things this would be one boring world.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Go Land crabs!
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    Today in History

    Not sure i'll be able to post tomorrow, so just in case: March 5th, 1936: the prototype of the Supermarine Spitfire flew for the first time.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    They gave us everything we needed to know. Later in the episode Ragnar is telling his son a tale of Habard (the wanderer). When his son asks if he has met Habard, Ragnar responds with a pointed glance at Aslaug and suggests that perhaps his mother has met him. That, and his comment about...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Floki's daughter died of a fever...just like Helga stated. Sometimes one really has to listen to the dialogue carefully. Best not to rely on Google. I find Vikings quite enjoyable. I enjoy the fact that the writers don't lay out everything for the audience in a cut and dried fashion. They...
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    Dieppe Raid Veteran Dies

    The new theory suggesting that the raid was staged to grab an enigma machine probably makes more sense than any of the other reasons I've encountered. Just picked up John Mellor's book on Dieppe today. Every time I see those photos of the Churchill tanks stuck on that pebble beach, I shudder.
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    • Forum: WWII
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    Marlowe, in The Big Sleep: "I don't mind if you don't like my manners, I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
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    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    They never seem to learn....you don't fool with Lagertha.
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    • Forum: WWII
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    What Are You Reading

    Just started the only remaining Chandler novel that I haven't read: Playback.
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    Dieppe Raid Veteran Dies

    That's a shame. I remember when all the First World War veterans were dying off...now it's the last of the Second War veterans. Bound to happen, of course, but sad. When I was growing up everyone's father, uncles, and sometimes the mothers, served in the Second World War, mine included...
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    • Forum: WWII
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    Signed Books

    Now I'm jealous! I remember reading Ernie Pyle's Brave Men when I was 14 or 15 years old.

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