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16-10-2007, 01:47 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1   | US army enlists anthropologists http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7042090.stm Oh dear. It took decades for anthropology to cast off the taint of imperialism and empire in the eyes of ex-colonised countries. This could drag it down again.
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16-10-2007, 01:58 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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16-10-2007, 02:06 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I ain't that funny - but I know what you mean. The lengths I used to go to in my office to look busy when I was researcher (just so that I wouldn't have to go out and actually research "real people")  My friend Ivo did his fieldwork in Cameroon, and his stories were hilarious. He loved the locals that he was researching and got on well with them. But in the locale in which he worked the main aid agency was an American Evangelical group. Real madcap zealots, always dropping to their knees for a prayer. Poor Ivo said that he didn't mind the heat, didn't mind the uncomfortable surroundings, didn't mind the lack of home comforts..............but was rather peed off with the fact that his knees were crippled by the time he'd finished his study.
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16-10-2007, 02:35 PM
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__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. | |
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16-10-2007, 05:55 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | In the late sixties and early seventies, the US army enlists psychics in order to utilise their skills in "remote viewing" of possible russian missile sites and other military establishments!
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