nanoboy
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You have to remember that ThylacineAlive doesn't like to Google/research anything, and says he is too lazy.
I hope Americans don't think that their's was the only civil war. Haunted Zoos!
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You have to remember that ThylacineAlive doesn't like to Google/research anything, and says he is too lazy.
I hope Americans don't think that their's was the only civil war. 
what's so civil about war anyway?You have to remember that ThylacineAlive doesn't like to Google/research anything, and says he is too lazy.
(Also, there's no apostrophe in theirs; try to keep up)
nanoboy
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Good spot! My bad.
GNR rocks! About 10 years ago I was meant to go see them in London on their Chinese Democracy tour (with a buddy from overseas who had never heard of GNR but just wanted to tag along!), but GNR cancelled the tour! Lame. I did make up for it (not!) by going to see a Norwegian band called 'Turbonegro' and actress Juliette Lewis's (proper use of apostrophe 's') band.
I have been to the zoo after hours, most recently during Werribee Zoo's winter 'Wild Nights'. The zoo is on a former aborigine settlement, and surely aborigines would have died/been buried there. But, the only thing I was afraid of was possums!
You have to remember that ThylacineAlive doesn't like to Google/research anything, and says he is too lazy.
nanoboy's getting it.
Trust me, I know that there's more than one civil war it's just I've never heard of the English Civil War (for all the time we've been spending on England in history class, I don't recall ever hearing a word about it).
zoogiraffe
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Thats because we have alot more history than the USA so it will take sometime to get to it!!nanoboy's getting it.
Trust me, I know that there's more than one civil war it's just I've never heard of the English Civil War (for all the time we've been spending on England in history class, I don't recall ever hearing a word about it).
I believe we completely bi-passed as we are at the very end of the 1800's. But we are learning all about Europe and not just England, although, the unit was about revolutions, unification through wars, and civil wars so I'm surprised we didn't learn about. We learned France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.
zoogiraffe
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I would say that you aren't going to study that now as it was around 200 years before,where you are at now.But then given the fact that the UK history can be taken back to well beyond 55bc,we have atleast 500 years more history than the USA will ever have!!
I generally find that history in general is taught very poorly and wrongly. So much emphasis on wars, warfare, and politics. Where's the culture, art, music, sports, literature?
I say this after spending a day teaching history.
This is so true. I believe we are moving units from the late 1800's to the early 1900's but we've been wroking on side projects and tests since the quarter is over and grades need to be finished so I don't know exactly where we are but far from where the English Civil War.
Cherry soda
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Whipsnade
When I went to wipsnade i was taking photos off the sea lions but I kept missing but when I got the photos back in one off the miss takes there was a man wearing a swimming outfit standing there .
When I went to wipsnade i was taking photos off the sea lions but I kept missing but when I got the photos back in one off the miss takes there was a man wearing a swimming outfit standing there .
No, no, you're mistaken. All the pale, white skin surrounding the speedo just made the man look like a ghost. You just encountered a European man going for a swim with the sea lions.
~Thylo
Never heard any specific stories but Birmingham (AL) Zoo is built on the site of a former Pauper's cemetery.
About that statement; the UK can only trace its history back a few hundred years to the union of England and Scotland or thereabouts. So not that much further back than the foundation of the U.S.
You seem to be confusing our current British notion of nationhood for the constantly changing cultural, political and ethnic mix and match that's characterised the vast majority of the history of human settlement here.
If you meant to talk about the history of human occupation in the British Isles then of course you can trace it back into the Pleistocene, as you can in the Americas. Admittedly though I don't think they any human remains as old as those at Pavilland.
Not sure why you'd pick 55 BC as being significant by the way.
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The difference, of course, is that a great deal of the culture and identity of the UK still derives from the culture and identity of the constituent elements of the whole predating the 1707 and 1800 Acts of Union, stretching back centuries or even millenia - whilst the culture and identity of the human inhabitants of the Americas prior to settlement by Europeans has contributed much less to the modern cultural identity of the USA.
55 BC, incidentally, is significant as the date of the first Roman invasion of Great Britain, although a permanant occupation would not come until AD 43.
a great deal of the culture and identity of the UK still derives from the culture and identity of the constituent elements of the whole predating the 1707 and 1800 Acts of Union, stretching back centuries or even millenia
Interesting point that you make there, still I'm not sure I agree. For example hardly any of the groups here now were even in place where they are now at the time of JC's first invasion. And apart from the dominance of the English Language in most of the modern UK I'm not sure that there's that much cultural cohesion.
whilst the culture and identity of the human inhabitants of the Americas prior to settlement by Europeans has contributed much less to the modern cultural identity of the USA
In 'U.S' terms I'd agree with that though.
Interesting point that you make there, still I'm not sure I agree. For example hardly any of the groups here now were even in place where they are now at the time of JC's first invasion. And apart from the dominance of the English Language in most of the modern UK I'm not sure that there's that much cultural cohesion.
whilst the culture and identity of the human inhabitants of the Americas prior to settlement by Europeans has contributed much less to the modern cultural identity of the USA
In 'U.S' terms I'd agree with that though.