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‘Is this shade?': UK embassy ‘commemorates’ burning the White House [pic]
twitchy ^
| August 24, 2014
Posted on 08/24/2014 5:06:59 PM PDT by SMGFan
British Embassy ✔ @UKinUSA
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of burning the White House. Only sparklers this time! pic.twitter.com/QIDBQTBmmL
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anniversary; deathtoallmonarchs; militaryhistory; unitedkingdom; warof1812
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To: SMGFan
Would it be too much to ask the Brits for a repeat performance?
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posted on
08/24/2014 7:25:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: the scotsman
Did anybody lose the War of 1812?
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posted on
08/24/2014 7:38:59 PM PDT
by
HandyDandy
(Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
To: Lurker
they could enjoy the fine traditions of rum, sodomy, and the lash. 200 years later, that's called "gay rights"
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posted on
08/24/2014 7:53:03 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
The USA and GB were not on friendly terms till the 1880s. It was said that Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and Annie Oakley in Europe, did more for foreign diplomacy than all the government diplomats combined.
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posted on
08/24/2014 7:53:44 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
To: Tijeras_Slim
It was said that Dolly Madison saved the portrait of Washington, and also took the two books containing all the laws and statutes of the USA!
Now days it would take several semi trucks to get all the laws and statutes out of Washington. Better to let them burn.
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posted on
08/24/2014 7:57:43 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
To: Tennessee Nana
I thought it was WILLIAM WALLACE that burnt York.
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posted on
08/24/2014 7:58:48 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
To: Tennessee Nana
And during that event Zebulon Pike after whom Pike’s Peak is named cashed his chips in when the withdrawing British blew up their ammunition magazine and flying rocks from the explosion fatally struck him.
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posted on
08/24/2014 9:17:27 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: the scotsman
Sad that no one teachers history anymore.
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posted on
08/25/2014 5:19:32 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: SMGFan
Just heard the Brits apologized. Too bad. No big deal.
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