The Tigers still have the best record in baseball despite dropping 4 of 5 to the White Sox, 3 of 4 to the Yankees, and 2 of 3 to the Red Sox. White Sox starter Jose Contreras has won his last 13 decisions and has not lost a game since last August 15.
In other news of the Central Powers, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has announced that it will not be sending a team to the Olympics in Beijing in 2008.
Having just read "Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World" by Margaret MacMillan, I'm not at all surprised that the Austro-Hungarian Empire can't form a team.
I think there were about 20 or so different ethnic groups in Austria-Hungary, so it would take you a while to come up with the nationality that I am (at least 1/4 of me is).
5 No. Tuchman's "Guns of August," yes. There's another new one out about WW I I'd like to read, but I can't remember the title right now. It'll come to me, I'm sure (ha!).
8 - Tuchman is always a good choice, although "The Proud Tower" goes into more depth about the whole pre-war era. So does "Dreadnought" by Robert Massie...geez, between Bob the librarian and myself the history major, we could give you quite the summer reading list!
9 - So sorry for your loss :( At least he was able to experience the glory that was December 2004 though! And it's somehow very fitting that Team Ukraine's best player is named Shevchenko, no?
Oy, that'll take a while to peruse Link, but I have to ask why that Clarke book is not listed as "Fiction"...
Any T. E. Lawrence would be a good read these days, and I just might go hit "Black Hawk Down" again this summer thanks to this whole Somalia thing. Bob, any place you can suggest to take this discussion?
They were neither Austrian nor Hungarian.
It's Croatian.
2 - And Bob, was it you that guessed my grandfather was born in Lvov in 1912?
5 No. Tuchman's "Guns of August," yes. There's another new one out about WW I I'd like to read, but I can't remember the title right now. It'll come to me, I'm sure (ha!).
9 - So sorry for your loss :( At least he was able to experience the glory that was December 2004 though! And it's somehow very fitting that Team Ukraine's best player is named Shevchenko, no?
I'm always up for suggestions, but my library's history section is pretty large already. ;)
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Any T. E. Lawrence would be a good read these days, and I just might go hit "Black Hawk Down" again this summer thanks to this whole Somalia thing. Bob, any place you can suggest to take this discussion?
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=history&view=Linkmeister
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