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Because we all know the mighty Soviet Army was the best in the world.... The 1940/41 Russian army was terrible. In this situation you do not have the morale boost of defending the motherland. You are not up against an enemy army that is committing atrocities like the Germans did. Germany...

On a practical note how far you could trust the sudeten germans depends who they think is going to win - so western and polish support is key. Sudeten Nazi can not be trusted. Others - well if they think they and their families are going to be handed over to Germany they are unlikely to risk...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_infallibility is not a bad definition. As it says not everything a Pope says is held to be infallible..... and not everybody who says they are Pope is accepted by the Church as being such - either at the time or later Go back far enough and the Pope as...

Could this apply to any of those figures the 'main' Roman Catholic Church now recognises as 'anti-popes' either historically or currently.

Not quite - but anything but an eventual loss takes a lot of statistically unlikely probabilities coming up. As I said even a 1:100,000,000 chance comes up eventually..... I have read that it is technically possible for a 6pdr to knock out a tiger - if it gets a hit on the gun mantle into...

Almost anything can be done with enough small POD's - but you need a lot. The Germans made mistakes if you go though and correct each one they do better and lose less men. The Russians did not get everything wrong - they need to make more frontal attacks - they need to mess up their...

So a win for the native population...

Is not that at least partially because the old Colonial frontiers payed little or no regard for the ethnic divisions that existed on the ground. Imagine how Europe might have developed if there was arbitary division of the land without regard for the ethnic mix of the population - 'alien'...

Go the whole hog Princess Di as a write in for the 1996 race......

From what I have read (mainly here on AH) I believe either a sizable minority or a small majority could well have a race related bias - I suspect for those I know it is more a political bias... the fact Obama is a democrat is more important than that he is not 'white'. Personally I am glad I...

I am so glad that you know my American friends better than I do....... Although I have known them mainly via the 'net I have visited some of them in America and seen others when they were over here in the past 15-20 years. My comment was in response to Oshron saying or are we not allowed to...

Yes because Obama is a democrat - if he was a republican there might be :) and I know Black Amercian 'Birthers'

and that is a reason not to take it, why? I know cotton was only the last product which is why I said Cotton etc - I think it just happens to be the one most people think of - especially if they have watched Roots.

I always thought the triangle was low grade manufactured goods to Africa slaves to America Raw materials to the UK Most of the cash profit being made on the Cotton etc so people in the UK could ignore the slave link - they dispatched manufactured goods and imported raw materials they did...

Given that they are a mix of Ethnic backgrounds including African-American yes. Now I can not prove that they would have been so 'concerned' if he was a republican - but that is a totally different issue....

This thread will not end well. Everybody know that the good old USA must win and that the British Empire is always victorious..... All that will happen is a slagging match between two partisan groups.....

Confession time - NO I am NOT a 'birther' BUT I do have a number of friends who are - I have friends from all parts of the American political spectrum.... I do not know if it is true of all 'Birthers' but those I know cross the ethnic spectrum they have a problem with the man not with his...

Winston Spencer-Churchill........ British PM during WW2 - American President during the Cold War.........

"St. Mouamet, watch over me,", Argyros murmured..... He found Mouamet one of the most inspiring saints on the calender. "There is no God but the Lord, and Christ is His Son," Argyros chanted softly. (Agent of Byzantium: Harry Turtledove.)

Turtledove had Muhammad become a great Christian Psalmist....