[Ads-l] politically correct geography

Baron, Dennis E debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU
Wed Jun 14 14:45:36 UTC 2017


Best of British . . .  A brief note appears in Scientific American, Dec. 28, 1878, p. 401, headed, “The tunnel under the British Channel”—about suspension of work by the Channel Tunnel Company because the site chosen for digging on the English was proving too expensive.



> On Jun 14, 2017, at 7:07 AM, paul johnson <paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM> wrote:
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> like the song says "nobody's business but the Turks"
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> On 6/14/2017 12:51 AM, W Brewer wrote:
>> Lordy, let us ne'er forget what happened to Constantinople on March 28,
>> 1930. But that's none of my business.
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> Can T_ _ _ p speak while Putin drinks a glass of water?
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