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How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People
Mental Floss ^ | November 6, 2018 | BY Lucas Reilly

Posted on 05/10/2020 11:09:26 AM PDT by thecodont

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To: Pelham
:^) It's joust a bump. ;^D One thing you never see in these quaint European towns? A renaissance faire. That's so weird.
Brad Upton knew Hong Kong had something missing

Brad Upton knew Hong Kong had something missing

41 posted on 05/10/2020 1:51:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: max americana

In the end those Germans were very lucky to be her POWs.


42 posted on 05/10/2020 1:59:51 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SunkenCiv
Watched The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society movie a while back. An interesting historical fiction with some good actors.

There was a Denver connection to the Channel Islands a few years ago. A real estate developer named John Dick, aptly named, got rich off the Denver Tech Center, the first big suburban office park in the region. He bought an old noble pile on Jersey and stashed his money in a Jersey trust. He used to jet friends to Jersey for a blow out summer party. Dick enjoyed explaining he had a seigneur's right of first night for newlyweds.

When his second wife divorced him he fled to Jersey to cut her off without a dime. Her lawyer could not break the trust under Jersey's arcane laws. But, he found another arcane law that allowed the ex-wife to throw Dick into debtors prison until he caughed up the dough.

43 posted on 05/10/2020 2:10:57 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: max americana
I reply to comments, not posters. If you don't want responses then don't post.....

And I only "snitch" when I am attacked by extremely vile and obnoxious comments that aren't worthy of any internet forum.

46 posted on 05/10/2020 2:41:33 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: colorado tanker
Seems like it would have been cheaper just to have her hit. /rimshot

47 posted on 05/10/2020 2:50:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

sure snitch whatever blows your skirt


48 posted on 05/10/2020 2:50:51 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 bec. I enjoy them crying)
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To: max americana
sure snitch whatever blows your skirt

LOL!

49 posted on 05/10/2020 2:52:04 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: lee martell

Was a good read. The story corroborates with others I’ve read about this.


50 posted on 05/10/2020 2:53:22 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: thecodont

This is a pleasant, charming article. The startling thing is that today’s socialists and today’s Islamic terrorists are both far worse than the Nazis that Dame Sibyl dealt with. We are facing a whole new level of evil - still Satan’s minions, but ratcheted up from even Germany in the 1940s.


51 posted on 05/10/2020 3:07:30 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: thecodont; All

Wonder Woman did a great job fighting the Nazis during the war.

She did so today in an episode from 1944.


52 posted on 05/10/2020 4:15:52 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: thecodont

A great post on a great day for mothers. I presume that she did get notified about her son’s death through the IRC (International Red Cross) before the War’s end. She played to her strengths, kudos to the Dame of Stark! She won her Game of Thrones!


53 posted on 05/10/2020 5:18:39 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: thecodont

Great article - thanks for posting it.


54 posted on 05/10/2020 5:35:29 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: thecodont

My reading of the link was that the source was BBC.


55 posted on 05/10/2020 8:35:51 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: thecodont

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.


56 posted on 05/11/2020 8:46:01 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: ealgeone

My first 3 kids are surnamed Hathaway. Youngest of the 3 kept the name and passed it on to his children.


57 posted on 05/16/2020 7:08:33 AM PDT by redhead (PRAYfor little ones in pedo pipeline: livestock: raped, tortured, and satanically sacrificed.)
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