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From: mtfester@netscape.net
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Subject: Re: Gifu bombing anniversary?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 02:33:52 +0000 (UTC)
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Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> mtfester@netscape.net wrote:
>> Silvio Franke <silvio.franke@unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:
>> 
>>>Scott Reynolds schrieb:

>>>The answer is quite simple. Japan lost the war. Britain not.
>> 
>> Odd. Britain's lost several wars, yet still there is a Commonwealth...

> I don't think 1066 counts in this equation. Sure, they lost Hong Kong 

I seem to recall a nation breaking away more recently than that.

Obviously a poor education on my part...

Mike