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Detroit Freep with some really great photos in the 75 selected. Artistic ones especially numerous. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=C4&Date=20081224&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=812240801&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=1

Comet 250km operational range 33.53 tonnes Sherman 193kms operational range 30.30 tonnes

Thats got to send shivers down the spine. I get to see a Spit and Hurricane each year and occasionally a Lancaster. It gets me emotional.

I have enjoyed the romp through the broad range of answers. Well apart from ignoring of the Comet's claim to be the best all-round medium tank package to have more than a fleeting acquaintance with the war. : )

I always thought a multiplier of the lowest paid workers wages employed by the company is good limitation - but the theory falls over with the two man firm : (

You do. It was the question was not strightfoward. It should have been what was the best tank weighing 36 tons fully loaded. And that is long tons not metric or short tons. During the period 1939 -1944.

AP calculates Mr Cote got compensation of $30.8million in 2008 - not bad going but one cannot but feel he may well have done the job for $2million. But being both CEO and Chairman does give a lot of clout even if most recommendations are that CEO and Chairman are separate functions and should be held by different people. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjBctJrSOUEqs9RES0Na-TMMI6fgD96SNA1O1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7939726.stm For those who think that body politic stinks and Blair bounced the UK into a war

That two-timing bastard Malik!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Double post

Affy - there is a presumption that there is a viable alternative ... why should there be?

The importance of what clubs there are for CM should be realised as it will form a safe environment/conduit for the saved works to be circulated. However modding is a minority sport so I cannot imagine any club wanting to make it a project when playing and organised tournaments have a far higher importance. There is also quality control. From what I can make out there is no mechanism to stop people uploading mods even if they are not that good - or more likely later mods continually raise the bar. Saving all would be better scaled down to saving those that are highly downloaded already and new ones that are noticeably better. Having several people in each country who hold the best works may help to avoid problems with posted DVD's.

...... oops. I have no real answer. I took the decision to remain loyal to a non-proprietary system that was widely available on the basis that once you buy in you are potentially screwed. Hope they turn up.

I am actually quite fond of music mashes but this site takes everything to a new level. Very ingenious and good music: http://thru-you.com I like 1, 5 and 6 best Brilliant site - possibly verging on the AWESOME [puke]

Thats because its her married name ...... Gisela Gschaider Stuart (born 26 November 1955 as Gisela Gschaider) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Edgbaston in the United Kingdom.

Racist? I thought race was as in 1 here from Chambers Anyway I have no problem with skin colour or country of origin but I can understand why people feel there must be some sort of limit. Competing for scarce resource - jobs, housing, quality of life the native settlers feel put-out. Hardly surprising - a very natural animal response. Whereas politicians, journalists, and sociologists higher in society do not feel threatened at all. After all without all those Polish builders how would they have their houses, and second houses been refurbished : ) Now if we lived in a vast country with resources to b e conquered and land cheap one might see the influx as a great asset - however both Australia and the US, who might fit the criteria, have rigorous immigration limits. Racist? - no not racist, simply a desire to live a comfortable life in your native land.

Numbers are not everything - quality of input counts too. I notice China and Japan do not feature in the answers given above which comes back to quality has a value all its own. Radar, Asdic or sonar, Merlin engines, ATG's that worked, espionage, whilst possibly not war winning individually certainly made a difference to the positive side. The atom bomb would also fall into the equation. Wikipedia actually does seem to offer all the answer if you scroll down in this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties This is probably one bit you would like though it is worth reading the whole: British Commonwealth Number served: UK & Crown Colonies (5,896,000); India (2,582,000), Australia (993,000); Canada (1,100,000); New Zealand (295,000); South Africa (250,000). [1,253-254] Total war related deaths reported by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: UK & Crown Colonies (383,667); Undivided India (87,031), Australia (40,458); Canada (45,364); New Zealand (11,928); South Africa (11,903);[29,10] Wounded: UK & Crown Colonies (284,049); India (64,354), Australia (39,803); Canada (53,174); New Zealand (19,314); South Africa (14,363)[19][18][20] Prisoner of war: UK & Crown Colonies (180,488); India (79,481); Australia (26,358); South Africa (14,750); Canada (9,334); New Zealand (8,415)[19][18][20]

Possibly your Googlefu refused to look at Wikianswers Answer There were dozens of different countries involved in that war. I think Winston Churchill gives a partial listing of this information in his memoirs. Michael Montagne Answer Hi Pete Your question is too great a task I think, but I can give you the official number of mobilised personnel for the major players; USA 16 115 000 UK 5 900 000 Germany 20 000 000 Italy 3 100 000 Japan 9 700 000 Canada 1 500 000 Russia 29 000 000 The USSR never provided a figure on how many they mobilised, and the French count is too confusing to be of value here. Sorry. Answer Official numbers for USSR: 4 826 907 as of June 22, 1941 ( the date Soviet Union entered the war ); 29 574 900 mobilized between 1941 and 1945. Answer The numbers for France are as follows: 6 000 000 were mobilized in 1940; 480 000 participated in the liberation of North Africa and Italy (1942-); and 1 450 000 were in French uniform during the liberation of France (1944). About 85 000 soldiers were in a French Army reconstituted under German orders after France was invaded by Germany, and meant to fight alongside the Axis. Two of the countries above, France and Italy, also had internal resistance movements, i.e. civilians who fought on the side of the Allies but could not fight in uniform. About 400 000 French were at the core of that country's resistance movement. There were about 300 000 Italian resistants. I assume you have Australian numbers : )

As there has been such a stir with this topic I thouht I would add a little more. False memory is interesting with a very large number of people shown to recall events that never happened. Perhaps an interesting case is Ronald Reagan describing a MoH winners actions in great detail. Never happened --- which leads you to wonder about the diligence of his staff in allowing him to tell porkies on TV. Also interesting was the amount that people would pay for a 50cent brass ring if you told people it gave a special feeling - 20 times your money. The gullibility and fallability of people is really quite shocking to read about.

This is from Gizmag, and I am really impressed that it was Fiat who invented the common rail diesel and now have gone significantly better http://www.gizmag.com/fiat-releases-multiair-engine-technology--is-this-a-fundamental-breakthrough-in-internal-combustion-engine-design/11184/ Quite an interesting site.

How long is the wait now then?!

My argument then is with Mark Harrison. His extrapolation to the USSR from what other examples I do not know seems unsupported. There cannot be many countries where both the rural and the urban population are equalish in size to the total population of the invader and the country so vast that there is no hope of occupation. Unfortunately I do not have access to University libraries and all the decent info I can find require me to pay for it. Possibly he is thinking of Germany in 1918, or Russia around the same time however I am not sure I would see them as a solid foundation for generalising to the USSR of 1940. Tantalisingly the quote does not go onto the factors that caused the Germans to fail. Perhaps vastness of population, form of rule, and size would be quoted : ) Do you have his reasons for Germany's failure? Alte Incidentally MH refers to a large urban population but even know the rural population of Russia 42/184M* is pretty darn chunky and presumably was substantially more so in 1940. There is also to be considered the amount of food grown within towns and the reduced expectancy of town-dwellers for more than bare rations. In a democracy perhaps a recipe for trouble but in a totalitarian state not necessarily so - particularly if a hated enemy was binding the country together. *The US proportion is about 20% currently.

http://www.2worldwar2.com/kursk.htm The Germans could have made it worse for themselves ....

Who said that? I have no great knowledge of the subject but I would have thought that size of country has more to do with possible collapse. Secondly, that a highly integrated society with JIT etc, and imported food is far far easier to render impotent then a low tech country. Thirdly, form of government and recent history.

keener? - must be Canadian right : ) It is nice little vid though. Curiously keener appears neither in Webster or Chambers, and in fact the Irish based definition is not mentioned in Webster at all. I had known "keener" as a one who mourns but also as the comparative. keen1 adj 1 eager; willing. 2 said of competition or rivalry, etc: fierce. 3 said of the wind: bitter. 4 said of a blade, etc: sharp. 5 said of the mind or senses: quick; acute. 6 said of prices: low; competitive. keenly adverb. keenness noun. keen on someone or something enthusiastic about them or it; fond of them or it. ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon cene bold or fierce. keen2 verb (keened, keening) tr & intr especially in Ireland: to lament or mourn in a loud wailing voice. noun a lament for the dead. keening noun wailing; lamentation. ETYMOLOGY: 19c: from Irish caoine lament.