Talk:Charles Stewart Parnell
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Thanks, Deb, I've been meaning to get around to doing Parnell at some stage, but there is much Irish stuff to be filled in. (Some day I'll get around to switching off Wikipedia and finishing my own book. I guess I've become a bit of a Wikiholic!) JTD 06:05 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
Ecclesiastes 12:12 - "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."
But what is "varity", and is the "war of 1812" the British-American War or Napoleon's rather larger scale (though possibly not as long run significant) war against Russia? PML.
- Did the US Congress award many medals of honour to people who fought in the Napoleonic war of 1812? Then I guess it must have been the British-American War, then. STÓD/ÉÍRE 23:39 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
- Quite - but, not something that is necessarily clear to everybody in all contexts, over and above this instance here. The term "war of 1812", used to refer to that war, is not only America-centric but actually refers to a lesser war than others of that date! So I feel that we need some more self-explanatory term that doesn't rest so heavily on context and background that not everybody will have. (The US Congress, by the bye, has been known to take a stand on matters completely outside its purview before.) PML.
- I linked it to War of 1812, which, like it or not, refers exclusively to the American one. Not even a "see also". :-\ But it should certainly clear that up, for anyone who wonders. -- John Owens 23:49 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)