From: joseph2k on 21 Oct 2006 01:12 Daniel Mandic wrote: > JoeBloe wrote: > >> So who killed the "indians"? > > > Not the Russian.... > They made their contributions in what is now Alaska. > > > Best Regards, > > Daniel Mandic > > > P.S.: All at all, I think it was a more a society, emmigrating to > America. Embedded in a clueless two-Party Government, changing the > sides every 6 years, or not and with that mysetrious small village in > the North, knowing every President before he/she has been voted > officially. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: joseph2k on 21 Oct 2006 01:29 lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >> news:jrlej2d7jucm71sc7juj3kufmlsk1knork(a)4ax.com... >> >>> Then, we started the industrial revolution. > > Actually....no. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution: > "The debate about the start of the Industrial Revolution also concerns the > massive lead that Britain had over other countries." > > The Industrial Revolution is widely acknowledged to have started in > England around the 1760s, with the start of migration of farm workers to > and the mechanization of factories--the first of which were probably the > textile > mills. Watt's steam engine around 1770 was a major enabling development. > > At that time, we weren't yet even a country, and certainly had little or > no > industry. The IR didn't migrate to the US until sometime later in the > 19th > century. DuPont set up his gunpowder factory in the early 1800s, and that > was probably one of the earliest US industrial concerns. Fascinating > tour, if you're ever in Wilmington, DE. > > Interestingly, Leominster, England was a focal point for the mechanization > of the textile industry in England. That's interesting because > Leominster/Fitchburg, Massachusetts was the center of the US textile > industry from about 1850 until its decline after WWII and offshoring to > the > Far East. One might assume that the coincidence was due to textile > companies moving from Leominster, England to Massachusetts and setting up > company a town named after their home in England, but that's apparently > not > the case. Leominster, MA was settled, fully established and incorporated > long before the IR hit the US. > > But, please, don't let a little data stand in the way of your jingoism. > > Eric Lucas Yes, thank you for reminding me. One of the economic drivers for the sucesion, and the American civil war that it resulted in, is that was still cheaper for the southern cotton plantation owners to ship their cotton to England to be milled, spun and woven and ship the results back; than it was to sent it to the new American mills in the Northern States for the same services. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: Eeyore on 21 Oct 2006 03:46 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > >> As for Europe, I'm not hearing much discussions about this > >> either. What I do hear is capitulations so that they > >> get their oil deliveries. > > > >Utter drivel. > > If your posts are an example of conclusions made from the news > you get, I'm even more worried about Eurpoe ceding completely > with one little oil tap turned off. Ceding to whom ? The Phantom Evil Empire ? Graham
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From: Daniel Mandic on 21 Oct 2006 07:25
joseph2k wrote: > Daniel Mandic wrote: > > > JoeBloe wrote: > > > >> So who killed the "indians"? > > > > > > Not the Russian.... > > > They made their contributions in what is now Alaska. To the Innuit Indianer? Best Regards, Daniel Mandic |