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To: SAMWolf
Peaceful negotiations won out, ending a confrontation that could have escalated into war, a conflict that, as Admiral Baynes remarked, would have involved "two great nations in a war over a squabble about a pig."

This is one bit of history that was actually covered, briefly, during my publik skrewl sentence.

53 posted on 04/14/2005 10:12:33 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Have you had your Flag-o-Gram today?)
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To: Professional Engineer

54-40 or Fight!


55 posted on 04/14/2005 10:15:39 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #20 - We must play God because the masses are ignorant.)
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