13/08/08
A large joke in the history
«At the beginning of the Second World War there where some 200 colonies, dominions and possessions connected to London, covering more than 11 million square miles. The [British] Empire embraced Pacific tribesmen and Eskimos, ancient African kingdoms and the rubble of the great Mughal empire, Australian farmers and the gold-miners of South Africa. It ran from the Scottish Highlands to the Antarctic, from the French-speaking villages of Quebec to the mosques of the Middle East. For a comparatively small nation of fewer than 50 million people to have acquired all this might seem a global absurdity, a large joke in the history of humankind.»
Extret del llibre A History of Modern Britain d’Andrew Marr.
14/08/08 a les 01:03
May be that’s due to British humour… Sempre han estat una nació peculiar, els anglesos…