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Article #1091Re: Crapola Deluxe at Verizon
From: Keith F. Lynch
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 02:51
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 02:51
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<newbie@nowhere.com> wrote: > Actually the name has been around since James Hilton wrote about it > in the late thirties (my guess). FDR once chose to use it as a base. John Gilmer <gilmer@crosslink.net> wrote: > Shangri-La is the name that FDR gave to the "Presidential Retreat" > in Maryland. Ike renamed it Camp David after his grandson. The > following presidents kept the name. When reporters asked FDR where the planes that bombed Tokyo in '42 came from, he replied that they came from our secret base in Shangri-La. Actually, they came from aircraft carriers. Later, an aircraft carrier was named the Shangri-La. -- Keith F. Lynch - kfl@keithlynch.net - http://keithlynch.net/ I always welcome replies to my e-mail, postings, and web pages, but unsolicited bulk e-mail sent to thousands of randomly collected addresses is not acceptable, and I do complain to the spammer's ISP.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,1196dc525a134d2d X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,1196dc525a134d2d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-27 19:51:51 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!news1.radix.net!saltmine.radix.net!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> Newsgroups: va.general,dc.general Subject: Re: Crapola Deluxe at Verizon Date: 27 Aug 2001 22:51:45 -0400 Organization: United Individualist Lines: 19 Message-ID: <9mf101$djp$1@saltmine.radix.net> References: <3b784587.37066874@news.bellatlantic.net> <87ae0y417t.fsf@mendel.genehack.org> <h3Bf7.6302$2u.55113@www.newsranger.com> <3b7f0c30$0$3817@dingus.crosslink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: saltmine.radix.net