On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 21:21:10 GMT, Michael 182 wrote:

*hmmm* still no clue ... well, *googling* ... oh. Pearl Harbor.
Hm, not that important of a date here in Europe and/but well known in the
US, I assume.

Come on Martin - I agree with a lot of your posts that accuse the US of a
provinicial world-view, but to say Pearl Harbor was not a date important in
world history is ludicrous.

oh, I think you got me wrong here. I don't meant that Pearl Harbor was not
an important event in history (au contraire!).
I meant the date itself (Dec 7th) is not one that someone on my side of the
pond is remembering (maybe it is in th media on round dates like 60, 65, 70
years or so).

It was the precipitating event that drew the US
into WWII, which, as I remember, had a pretty large effect on Europe. Saying
Pearl Harbor is an unimportant date in European history is like saying the
rise of Nazism was unimportant in US history.

see above; and yes, when it would be me saying that what you meant I would
understand your argumentation. But as said above: it was not the event, it
was the date.

(hope I got that right)

#m
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