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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 02/27/2003 : 09:40:30
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On June 28, 1914, an Archduke was assassinated.
One month later, July 28, the A-H Empire reacted by declaring War on tiny Serbia---with the prearranged suport of Germany.
World War I (aka: "the Great War"; the "War to end all Wars"; etc.), with its estimated 10 million killed, had started.
What more needs be said?
(Edited {in brown} to highlight the relative scale of things.)
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Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. --Falstaff |
Edited by - Computer Org on 02/27/2003 13:12:44
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
1668 Posts |
 Posted - 02/27/2003 : 10:30:06 [Permalink]
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2003 : 10:35:17 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Slater
Better find a bed you can hide under if you are so frightened.
As it turns out, I am not even the least bit frightened. However....if I lived in San Francisco....  |
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Jelly Fish
New Member
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Posted - 02/27/2003 : 12:26:16 [Permalink]
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Hey Org,
Look, I'm sorry my friend, but I dont get the point of your initial example. How is it relevant to anything..the date?...1 month...A-H Empire..
Help me, I'm only a simple Jelly Fish
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Glendower..“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”
Hotspur..“Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?”
Jelly.."Not a hope in hell"
adapted from Henry 1V part 1 by Mr W. Shakespeare |
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2003 : 12:43:21 [Permalink]
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As I understand things, there were a bunch of little nation-states in the area of present-day Bosnia, Serbia, et al. They were squabbling. The then-very large and powerful Austrian-Hungarian Empire had designs on the region. On the side, the various nation-states (some small; some of them "empires") were pairing off.
The assassination of the Archduke was like the seeding of supercooled glass: All of a sudden there were two sides with nearly every European Nation-State involved.
It happened very quickly; it was very bad; and, most importantly, there was no getting out of it. |
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Jelly Fish
New Member
46 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2003 : 12:49:54 [Permalink]
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Org?
and....so what? I'm not being disrespectful, but I dont see the point? I'm expecting you to say how it relates too anything now? Are you just giving us a history lesson, and a leeson that is taught in the UK as how WW1 did start? Because we know all this. Are you disputing what you say?
Jelly
sorry, org, I'm just confused. |
Glendower..“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”
Hotspur..“Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?”
Jelly.."Not a hope in hell"
adapted from Henry 1V part 1 by Mr W. Shakespeare |
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