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Skyrad01 is correct.Scotts expedition was financed on the basis that he would undertake scientific research on the way.Amundsen was given a free hand.Scotts party for example had to haul rocks as geological samples on the sleds,they were even being collected on the final leg.Hardly a fair "race".

A waste of huge amounts of money on a ridiculous vanity project.The fares will have to be so high only the rich will be able to afford it and we willall be paying for it for decades.I for one as an ordinary working class person dont want to subsidise rich businessmen.People living in affected are...

Bet the opening ceremony isnt as good as Berlin 1936.

Damn .Dec 31? Why cant it be in August? Then I wouldnt have to bother renewing my car insurance for a paltry 3 months

Archeologists are often over confident in their dating.There has been no organic material found at this sight to confirm any dating by carbon 14 tests.The other main method used is comparison with objects at similar sites.As their are no similar sites from a known date the dating here is purely g...

A complete waste of money,just put on so a load of sheep can come and stare.Do these people have a mind of their own?It is like the Olympics themselves paid for out of a government contingency fund which should be used for emergencies.The whole lot should have been paid for by London alone since ...

I wont bother renewing my car insurance then.

What a ridiculous waste of money when there are huge cutbaacks affecting the old,disabled etc.Its just so contractors and others involved can make huge amounts of money then watch the facilities crumble away.I hope it pisses down every day and that everything that can go wrong WILL go wrong

Can someone PLEASE make an intelligent comment or is the standard of education in America even lower than I thought?The comments here just consist of childish abuse posted by morons trying to sound tough.Stupidity is not a virtue.

Totally agree with Leamingtonsteve.A collosal waste of money.Whatever they try to tell you most of the facilities will never be used again,but no doubt Coes croneys and the contractors will make a huge killing out of it.Imust admit that I dont know where the money to build it all is coming from,I...

Nuremburg brought the whole concept of war crimes into disrepute.I am not defending what SOME of them did but others who were innocent had no chance of accquital.If you believe in winners justice, fine but the allies were so hypocritical with their holier than thou attitude.All sides commited war...

The Lusitania was a legitimate target,it was carrying munitions and senior military personnel.Also there had been occassions when a ship when encountering a German U boat had pretended to surrender then rammed the sub when it surfaced.

@MaryAnn4peace Just seen your reply to my comment on the Hess video 2 weeks ago and thank YOU for your kind reply. So rare to meet polite people on you tube nowadays.

I cant help thinking that there would not have been so much fuss made about it if it had not happened in New York to a bunch of well off middle class well off office workers.If the planes had crashed into factories in a working class industrial town it would have been largely forgotten.Perhaps it...

The Lusitania was a legitimate target not just because it was carrying munitions and senior military personnel,but there had been occasions when a ship had surrendered to a u boat and then rammed it when it surfaced,an equally illegal action.Very possibly the British wanted it to happen to press...

While I am not defending what SOME of the accused did,the Nuremburg trials for me has brought the whole concept of "war crimes"into disrepute with its winners justice.There were war crimes committed by both sides.The court should have consisted of representatives from neutral countries such as Sw...

i ve still got the original vinyl which i got when it first came out and oddly enough it has a lyric sheet.

IMO that one simple line"The tune ends too soon for us all"is the most perfect line ever written in a song

I am a Ritchie Blackmore worshipper and so was delighted to find out Tull was his favourite band.In an interview lamenting the decline of music he says"Take Jethro Tull,great musicians,great music but they wouldnt be given the chance to make it nowadays" Spot on as usual Ritchie.

Personally I dont give a fuck about how many died.Nearly all of them would be smug well off middle class bastards,so content with their lives and pleased with themselves. There is far too much sentimentality.If exactly the same thing had happened to a group of factories in a working class industr...

I dont know whether there have always been famines in Africa or if it is largely a 20th century phenomenon.If it is the former then we just have to accept it as natures way,if the latter then it must be their fault and you cannot blame it on the west.It is fashionable to say education is importan...

While I am not defending what SOME of the accused did the Nuremburg farce has brought the whole concept of war crimes in to disrepute.It was impossible for ther to be a fair trial under victors justice.Instead the court should have been made up from representatives from neutral countries,Sweden,S...

crazyknight and bunkergear are totally correct.More people should be critical about allied propoganda and their victors justice.For example the Russians blamed the Katyn massacre of polish officers on the Germans for decades til it was proved that THEY did it.How many more lies have not been expo...

Not quite,but nearly a great man.He had his flaws but remember he constantly tried to prevent war,o.k you could be cynical and say that was only because he had too much to lose but perhaps it was genuine.Behind his image of a buffoon he had a sharp mind.Remember that the Fuhrer had given him the ...

@BankaiIchigo12345 Let me repeat for the last time forYOU and other Americans topless swimming might carry an inherent sexual component but for many Europeans it does NOT.simply because we are used to it.It has nothing to do with the severity of the law.Do you honestly think if a guy sees a girl ...

I have not the slightest doubt they were guilty.the appeal was based around 1 possibly dubious forensic evidence,the dna on the knife.What about the other evidence such as the continual stream of lies they told from the start?.Just 1 example to start.They said that they were at Sollecitos flat do...

@massacrante07 That is a bit unfair.There are thousands of us ordinary decent working class people here who like me find this wrong but we have no power,because we dont have real democracy so dont blame us all,just our glorious leaders

He was nowhere near as good an orator as Dr Goebbels whose Totale krieg speech is the greatest piece of oratory of the last century.Herr Hitler saw the dangers of spreading communism while Churchill and Roosevelt were too busy sucking up to Stalin and were happy to hand millions of people in E.E...

Simply the greatest piece of oratory of the 20th century.

Cromwell was nothing but a self serving hypocrite.When parliament would not do exactly what HE wanted he simply dissolved it .And dont forget the suppression of the Levellers who wanted a true democracy.If you think a dictatorship is fine ,then o.k but dont try to pretend he was any sort of real ...

THE best performance of dancing on you tube.almost professional standard.So beautiful too.

You thick cunt.You still have not explained why the defence didnt destroy this "false" evidence.and if as you say it has now been exposed why hasnt she been released yet? perhaps you think any day soon it will happen. A challenge .You send her a birthday card every year she is in prison and I wil...