Recent content by adro91

Great Big Picture this week! If you wanna know more about the period in detail, Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood was a great series that might still be knocking around on iplayer (for all the Brits). If not I'm sure its on the net somewhere. Anyhow that's well worth a watch if you're into movies.

UK, specifically London.

Your undervaluing of the Canadian, Indian and Australian contributions to WWII does them a great disservice. Canadian and ANZAC troops formed a vital component of the Allied effort on D-Day. Canadian divisions attacked along Sword, Gold and Juno beaches, and actually faced some of the toughest...

As someone has rightly pointed out, Barbarossa was an operation, not a battle. Also, (again, I realise someone has pointed this out but it seems worth reiterating) Barbarossa was the codename given to the first major German push into the Soviet Union. If you're looking for a battle to poll, try...

I'm British, and I'm kinda looking forward to it, just because it looks like a decent superhero movie. Also the fact that a lot (well, nearly all) of the city scenes were shot in Manchester, and having visited the set on a day off from Uni, I'd like to see it on screen.

Nice argument, but the Chinese are about as Communist as George Bush's left pinkie. Don't get me wrong, the rhetoric is all marxism-leninism and 'we are on the way to socialism' etc, but the reality is that the whole reason the Chinese are doing well is because they have massively opened...

Nope, its the March from the Funeral Music for Queen Mary by Henry Purcell. An awesomely sombre bit of music from the 17th century Londoner.

Nope, its the March from the Funeral Music for Queen Mary by Henry Purcell. An awesomely sombre bit of music from the 17th century Londoner.