Factual errors


Many faults in this documentary:

1. Vienna was sieged on their own land, ottomans were the invaders.
In Israel, they are expanding outside their borders, continuously taking more land by force...basically trying to drive out the Palestinians.

2. I wonder if Niall realizes that we are still using the Arabic numerals in every scientific application.

3. While Israel has many engineers and quite many patents, most northern European countries have more per capita approved (such as Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden).

4. Israel has so many engineers simply because of the huge amounts of funds it receives from the US, vast majority are military (and related fields) engineers.

And, stop using "killer app" in every other sentence. It makes you look moronic.

PS. I'm not Muslim.

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He's been finance capital's fluffer since the viagra stopped working. A nice little earner as long as you don't look to hard at where the money comes from.

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

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Having recently finished OH1916I and 1917III I'm having a rest from empire by reading 'The One from the Other' by Philip Kerr.

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

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You could do worse during the grass shortage, COMbbc4 has relapsed into coffee table telly. I find that the deeper I go into the causes and course of the Great War the more interesting (but no less depressing) it becomes. It puts the Big Two in military and historical context as a coda to the decline and fall of the Euro empires that Fergie likes so much. Had the Western Front not collapsed in 1940 the 1914-1918 gig would be written about as one of the cheapest victories of the industrial era.

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

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