On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:33:52 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netscape.net  ...
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>Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> mtfester@netscape.net wrote:
>>> Silvio Franke <silvio.franke@unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:
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>>>>Scott Reynolds schrieb:
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>>>>The answer is quite simple. Japan lost the war. Britain not.
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>>> Odd. Britain's lost several wars, yet still there is a Commonwealth...
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>> I don't think 1066 counts in this equation. Sure, they lost Hong Kong 
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>I seem to recall a nation breaking away more recently than that.
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>Obviously a poor education on my part...
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Are you refering to The Second Civil War when the French incited the Northern
and Southern Colonies to treason?

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