Comments on: Stonehenge and Old Sarum http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:05:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Allport http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115071 Alan Allport Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:56:17 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115071 <i>In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history ...</i> This sounds like the introductory sentence of most of my students' papers, sigh. Re: cities and rumors: IIRC the residents of Hiroshima prior to August 6 1945 were convinced that their relative good fortune was due to General MacArthur having sired an illegitimate child while visiting the town during the Russo-Japanese war. In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history …

This sounds like the introductory sentence of most of my students’ papers, sigh.

Re: cities and rumors: IIRC the residents of Hiroshima prior to August 6 1945 were convinced that their relative good fortune was due to General MacArthur having sired an illegitimate child while visiting the town during the Russo-Japanese war.

]]> By: Erik Lund http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115067 Erik Lund Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:23:42 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115067 I was expecting this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqeq12TdW58&NR=1 Never mind, I've got it playing now. Living as well as a banshee, I am. I was expecting this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqeq12TdW58&NR=1
Never mind, I’ve got it playing now. Living as well as a banshee, I am.

]]> By: Nicholas Waller http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115066 Nicholas Waller Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:01:16 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115066 When I was a kid, you could walk up to the Stonehenge stones, and also clamber on them (this is back in about 1966, and I have a photo to prove it to myself). When I was a kid, you could walk up to the Stonehenge stones, and also clamber on them (this is back in about 1966, and I have a photo to prove it to myself).

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115050 Brett Holman Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:30:42 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115050 Yes, I forgot about Andover! Middle Wallop is not far away, either -- a Spitfire squadron was based there during the Battle of Britain. Yes, I forgot about Andover! Middle Wallop is not far away, either — a Spitfire squadron was based there during the Battle of Britain.

]]> By: Ross Mahoney http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115044 Ross Mahoney Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:43:53 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115044 That should say 'Of course...' Need a drink to help the typing! That should say ‘Of course…’ Need a drink to help the typing!

]]> By: Ross Mahoney http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115043 Ross Mahoney Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:42:20 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115043 Of Old Sarum was home to the School of Army Cooperation and laterley the School of Land-Air Warfare. Also just up the road is the original home to the RAF Staff College at Andover. Of Old Sarum was home to the School of Army Cooperation and laterley the School of Land-Air Warfare.

Also just up the road is the original home to the RAF Staff College at Andover.

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2009/10/06/stonehenge-and-old-sarum/comment-page-1/#comment-115042 Chris Williams Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:39:25 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=2557#comment-115042 "There was a young curate from Salisbury Whose manners were quite Halisbury-Scalisbury He ran around Hampshire Without any Pampshire Til his bishop compelled him to Walisbury" Not sure who wrote that. “There was a young curate from Salisbury
Whose manners were quite Halisbury-Scalisbury
He ran around Hampshire
Without any Pampshire
Til his bishop compelled him to Walisbury”

Not sure who wrote that.

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