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@LucioleLuce Rossini (et pas seulement lui, le monde de la musique classique ...) était un farceur: voir, par exemple, l'un de ses derniers ouvrages (ceux de la soi-disant "exil en France"), dans lequel, en termes très agréables et comiques , est décrite avec des onomatopées un voyage en train, ...

It's interesting to see these young thrilled riders with the uniforms rumpled, his sleeves rolled up, long hair flapping in the wind ... How far from the stereotype of the German officer dull, dapper in his tight uniform, with a monocle in his eye and whip in hand (to whip helpless children or p...

@pilotdave1000 - It is not a P-40: its landing gear moved up and down parallel to the airplane axis, by rotating the wheels 90 degrees, up to housing in the thickness of the wings.

AAhhh, the good old sounds of the past times! I heard this music (sung by an unknown female voice) the first time in the late '40s, as the B side of a 78 rpm vinyle. WW II had ended by few years, New Zealanders have just leaved my city and we were temporarily under Allied anglo-american governmen...

@falcoluminoso A proposito di boria e di Royal Navy, voglio ricordare la consuetudine tutta britannica di cambiare le regole del gioco a seconda della convenienza. Nel libriccino "Guida del Boy-scout" (che conservo da qualche parte), il padre di tutti i pedofili in divisa, R. Baden-Powell, deprec...

@FreiKonigsberg - @ArturAxmann I have read all your answers to "UKRod", and I want to thank you for your patience and thoughtfulness. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I found no trace of that elusive Mister-X: what did he say, what had he written? was he a real person or an hologram, a vampire va...

@laksemann - No accident: it is the so-called "salute" or "greetings", a most spectacular procedure (albeit dangerous, often causing some damage on the ship keel) obtained by splashing the vessel into the water from a slipway slightly shorter than the necessary (see also 0:25).

@juultjuh99 A great nation should be proud of defeats he has overcome, rather than of her victories.

Same for men: see for example George Patton, who up to his death was distressed because of their own inability against Rommel.

Poor old Patty, the tin general

..or that of England? What sort of culture do you wanted to communicate to those red-skinned barbarians, that of Rousseau or that of John Locke?

Believe me, you have not brought freedom in Europe, neither the first nor the second time. You simply were slaves who "volunteered" on an adventure of w...

When a restorer of Comets or Shermans sees this video, he only can run to the nearest pub and get drunk for dispair.

To pakr72 - About the great successes of the refurbished Shermans in Korea, Syria, Jordan or Egypt: against such botched crews, even the ridiculous L3's of Mussolini would have be...

Since the end of WW II, I and many others (then kids) we were bombarded with a campaign of hatred against Germany and Germans - not only against the Nazis, with arguments that seemed convincing to us, perhaps only for our convenience or our misinformation.

It' a shame that after almost sixty year...

If the Vietcong had countered with this anti-aircraft (instead of the .50-caliber mounted on the little Citroen 2CV), every U.S. helicopter would beat a retreat - with all due respect to Wagner