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Amazing story.

Today,the 19th May, in 1536 Anne Boleyn was executed for adultery.
She received the death sentence because her husband was Henry VIII, king of England.
She was accused of adultery with five men, all were known to her, one was her brother.
Only one of the men admitted to the deed, all were tortured and beheaded. (An indication, if one was needed, that they were innocent: treason, for which they were accused, was punished by hanging, drawing and quartering.
Of course,  Anne’s only crime was not to bear the 44 year old king with a son. She had had a daughter, Elizabeth, destined to be one of England’s greatest monarchs, but he wanted a son and had already lined up a new bride. He remarried on the 29th,  a Howard family member, Katherine.
Mercifully for the Queen who forever changed England’s future with her Protestantism, Henry imported a well known French executioner, who used a sword, severing her head in one blow,  so she did not suffer as some did under a drunken executioner or one bribed to make a mess.

Garg, one word comes to mind with you last post……

NICE!

@captain:

Wow! Do women talk like that?
Yes Wittman, some of them do. They like to act all prim and proper, but some of them talk like that. If they think the book “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a good book…then they probably talk like that. Maybe not in pubic, but you and I would probably be astounded about the things they talk about when they’re going to the bathroom with each other.

It’s like the great Seinfeld line about gym class bullying, men give another wedgies and swirlies; women just tease other women until they develop a eating disorder.

but now the computer came from the same conneticut town that houses the HQ for the wrestlers.  and this guys ex wife died on the 15th also under mysterious circumstances.

also, why would he send text messages?  why not call and speak?  perhaps b/c he was already dead, and some people wanted to tie up some loose ends, so they text message.

@AgentSmith:

Not true. At the end, Hitler blamed the German people (along with the Jews, of course) for his defeat. Some of his generals asked to surrender to spare the civilians and Hitler replied that they knew what they were getting into and had no sympathy for them. Hitler was anything but a “protector of the German people”.

This is largely irrelevent b/c this assumes the outcome is all that matters which in of itself assumes an egocentric view of the war in favor of whose telling the history.  by this reasoning had the Germans won he would’ve been the great protector of the German people?  No this is absolutely how Hitler saw himself and that is all that matters.  If you want to dispute that then pull up some sources of Hitler blaming the people, and better yet for once explain how that would be at all relevent to the discussion at hand.  Analysis mary, analysis.  I can site blanket facts too but that doesn’t really reveal anything.

AS - I know you are reading.  This is info for when you come back, because you will be back.  :-D

There was an ideology. Not to mention, Hitler blamed the German people & Jews for failing him (germany) - read Cornelius Ryan’s The Final Battle.  It’s an exciting read anyway.  There’s plenty of other sources as everyone and their mother were anxious to find out the “Why?” of WW2.  I’m sure you recall Meyer’s “shocking” results.

3 other things, in general.  Stop arguing for the sake of arguing, or to get some irelevant point in.  Don’t shootdown someone’s point due to lack of sources when you don’t supply them yourself.  Argue what they are saying, not what you think they are thinking/doing.

Well, I can give you some human impressions. I studied Mathematics in Birmingham, Alabama for 10 month. Though the German unemployment rate is bigger than the American, the people are far better off in Germany than in America. There is less poverty, there are fewer homeless and the education is far better.
There are more beggars on the street than here. There is much more crime in the cities. I spoke with lots of people in dept and living from paycheque to paycheque. The cars on the streets were old and damaged. The same is true for many houses I saw. The college is very expensive, but Math 101 is rediculous. An American Bachelor is maybe, just maybe, a little more than a Bavarian Abitur.

Since I’m still at college, I don’t work yet and thus can’t give you personal information on that.

@F_alk:

True, the Germans invented the “terrorbombings” starting in the Spanish Civil War. And if they had the ressources, they would have used it on. … But that was not at all the point i tried to make (not this time ;), it was just to illustrate how beautiful the city is, with less of these concrete-building-sins of the 50’s.

yeah, i know.
i was mostly teasing you.
yes yes, and Dresden too.