Amanda Foreman Quotes
For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.
Amanda Foreman
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Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins
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Katherine Kelly
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
Kevin Bacon
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Christina Ricci
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Archie Panjabi
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
Karen Abbott
He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
Aaron Allston
For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American.
Amanda Foreman