Recent content by Richie

Yep, Vickers-Armstrong Six-ton. It was used during both the 1940 invasion of Finland and the Continuation War. Finland bought thirty of these tanks but only about ten were ready when the Red Army attacked. You have the floor!

Just the name I was born with.

It was mentioned in passing in some media (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Atlantic/080523/t052313A.html">CBC</a>). I'm glad to hear that Corner Brook spent so much time at sea, hopefully Windsor and Victoria are doing the same. I also recall reading an article about HMCS Corner Brook surfacing...

Aren't there laws in place that would prohibit a former President from divulging state secrets or information that he obtained while in office? Perhaps Washington is using Carter as an informal go-between to see what Hamas is up to and by extension what Iran and Syria are up to in regards to...

No sir...

Thank you, BernDawg! I love a good mystery!  ;D Let's try this one. If you can give me the make of tank that's great, if you can give me the conflict that this particular vehicle was involved in, even better!

The German Treffas-Wagen produced by Bremen Hansa-Lloyd Works in 1917, which had huge wheels, heavy guns, weighed 18 tons, and needed a crew of four to operate.

Quote from article: "NDP defence critic Dawn Black accused the Tories of taking British Columbians for granted by waiting so long to replace search and rescue planes." 'I certainly hope we don't see some sort of disaster before this government acts.'" Life must be so nice in the Party of...

Not to be pedantic, but there are only thirty days in June. Does this mean the contest never ends?  ???

True, but as Krauthammer states in his WP article, that meeting occurred only after the Americans had obtained certain preconditions leading up to "Nixon in China". Summits never decide anything, they just put the stamp of approval on what has been hammered out by the diplomats and bureaucrats...

If the GOP is having a hard time defining itself, I think a lot of the problem is the ongoing internal party debate between social conservatives and libertarians. The rise of the religious right over the last twenty five years has changed the Republican Party. The GOP of today is not the GOP of...

And as such is itself a racist slur on white people. I lived in NC for two years and people down there would be considered "rednecks" as the term is used today; they were also some of the nicest people I've had the pleasure to meet. Yes, they owned guns, in some cases I knew, many guns. They...

Missed it by 36 seconds!  :crybaby:

You've got the scale of the thing all wrong. 'Doodlebugs' (known as 'Goliath' in Germany) - remote controlled tanks, loaded with high explosives.

This index is meaningless, the U.S. spends a greater percentage of its GDP on defence (defence of the West) than we do and is therefore considered a "less peaceful country" than Rwanda or Syria?!?!  ::)