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Of course. But still, those beautiful ships... [&o]

I have more books about battleships than my university library. I might even own more than the Bayerische Staatsbibliotek München, which has the focus on military literature...

I just love this toys and have to have every book about them! [;)]

ORIGINAL: thegreatwent

A Stan Rodgers fan! Someone who knows "The Mary Ellen Carter", "the Idiot" and dozens of his other greats?!

"So with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go"....."rise again!".

He is one of my favorite artists who died tragically.


God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers.

"So the owners wrote her of, not a nickle would they spend.She gave twenty years of service before he sorry end. But insurance paid the loss , so let rest below. Then they looked at us and said we'd have to go".

Yawn... Doesn't look like I'll be re-crossing 30K tonight...

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Yawn... Doesn't look like I'll be re-crossing 30K tonight...

Nor i... [:'(]

poor boys! 
I really like this two!

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Yawn... Doesn't look like I'll be re-crossing 30K tonight...

Nor i... [:'(]

[>:][>:][>:] G'night, folks... [>:][>:][>:]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

poor boys! 
I really like this two!

i'm pretty sure none of us here will be crossing 30K tonight... Terminus could if he so desired... but it sounds as if he is fading... [>:]

Good night, T.

Reading THE THREAD!!!, doing some chores to get ready for my lovely wife's arrival home from work in about 2 hours, and watching Independance Day in HD.  I'm having a good "special effects" TV day.  [:D]

Have fun and good night!

Just got the commemorative DVD from my 40th High School Reunion... this started me on a kind of nostalgia kick, so i started going through old photos... someone, one of Nik's childhood pics got into my stuff... i have no idea how... [X(] [:'(]

ORIGINAL: stuman

Hmm, I really like a good Pinot Noir. I have had a wine from there before. Was there a specific type/year you enjoyed ?

2007.

Ah, well...it appears I missed the party today. [:D]

Poor Wilhelm....tyke loved his boats and ships and couldn't understand why the Brits felt so threatened by them. His granny probably could have straightened him out, but she was long gone when he started on his doomed project. That was one of the most interesting things about Dreadnought was seeing how Wilhelm changed after Victoria died.

i thought from reading the book it was Bismarck working his evil charm on Willie... it got Otto the power he wanted (temporarily) but in the long run it also got him pushed out, and it the very long run it resulted in disaster... the weird thing is the Bismarck seem to realize this would also be the outcome of what he did.

It was a small price to pay for a fleeting grip on power, i suppose... [;)]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

I love to love,
But my baby just wants to dance...
He loves to dance,
He's got to dance...

You want disco, you got disco...[:'(]

Someone please make T stop !

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

i thought from reading the book it was Bismarck working his evil charm on Willie... it got Otto the power he wanted (temporarily) but in the long run it also got him pushed out, and it the very long run it resulted in disaster... the weird thing is the Bismarck seem to realize this would also be the outcome of what he did.

It was a small price to pay for a fleeting grip on power, i suppose... [;)]

Fleeting? You punster you! [:D]

My take from the book is that it was just Wilhelm being honestly enamored of ships, especially British ones. Bismarck really didn't give a rats toe about boats, so I don't see him as being a catalyst for the Kaiser's fleet ambitions...maybe his colonial ambitions, sure. And there's a reasonable connection there, but I'll still contend that the bottom line was that Wilhelm wanted a fleet of his own to show off. He certainly had NO intentions of alienating England, and indeed to the very end couldn't understand their great umbrage taken at his construction project. But that was just his total lack of ability to see things 'as others see it' to paraphrase Burns.

Good morning gentlemen.

Morning all. Morning Dixie, practicing getting up early in preperation for fatherhood?

ORIGINAL: Terminus
even though those two countries hated each other.

Why are you using the past tense?

I was talking about late 19th and early 20th century politics.