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Aston martin Lagonda LTD made the aston martin lagonda car.
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(n.) slang for the frozen mud surrounding any vehicle parked on muddy areas and left to freeze in over winter.
It's stuck in this cast iron cow shit.
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Kindertransport is the name given to a rescue operation initiated by the British Jews for Jewish children in Nazi-occupied countries, following the Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938.
The British Jewish Refugee Committee, with the aid of funds from Quakers and other refugee organizations, appealed to Members of the British Parliament, to allow the children to be admitted to the United Kingdom. Parliament agreed to admit an unspecified number of children between the ages of 5 and 17. A ΓΒ£50 bond was posted for each child, "to assure their ultimate resettlement".
Ten-thousand unaccompanied children travelled to the United Kingdom from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, in sealed trains. The first transport left only six weeks after the Kristallnacht, and the last left just two days before war broke out (September 3, 1939).
Upon arrival in England, some of the children went to foster families, some to orphanages, and others worked on farms. Children were generally well treated, though a few were abused or mistreated. The older children joined the British or Australiann armed forces once they reached 18.
Most of the children settled in the United Kingdom, though many re-emigrated to Israel or North America
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A Pyrrhic victory is a victory which is only achieved with heavy losses on one's own side.
This alludes to the Battle of Ausculum (Ascoli Satriano, in Apulia). in 279 BCE, when the Epirote King Pyrrhus, aiding the Tarentines, defeated the Romans but with severe casualties of his own. After the battle, Pyrrhus is recorded to have commented: "If we win another such battle against the Romans, we will be completely lost" (Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21,14).
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The world wars could be loosely considered Pyrrhic victories.
The best example of a pyrrhic victory is in the anglo-zulu war, in which Ntshingwayo Khoza set 22,000 zulu warriors, about 55% of the male population of zululands to attack 1,400 British soldiers in a surprise attack at the Battle of Isandlwana.
Although less than 100 soldiers escaped survived, 4000 zulus, about 10% of the entire male population were lost or substantially wounded in defeating a poorly maintained and inexperienced third of the army in the area. To make matters worse for king Cetshwayo, later that day a force of 5000 zulus took on a hospital with 142 men in it, including all ranks. The zulus, amred with weapons from the earlier pyrrhic victory failed to do any more than kill 17 soldiers and wound 15. This was at an expense of almost 1000 soldiers.
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Not a nazi (nazism and fascism are different things). Deeply conservative and probably aristocratic, wanting to rebuild France from the soft and lazy governments that have been around since the third republic.
Jean-Marie Le Pen. Vote for your favourite piece of stationery!
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Rising up against the USSR during the fall of it's power int he late 80's, the workers of the Gdansk shipyard, Poland staged the first successful strike in the history of the USSR, thus undermining communism.
The Gdansk shipyard industrial action.
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(v.) To make quiet, phrase used by Italians, and made popular by a 1983 song by Joe Dolce, who had a very bad Italian accent.
"What you say to me? SHADDAP YOU FACE!" *slap*
What's-a matter you, hey, gotta no respect
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah, shaddap you face*
*candidate for worst song ever.
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