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Hobo Donating Member (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 11:38 PM
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Can we get the queen
To re-establish the duke of wellington? You know since it's President Obama's Waterloo Moment.



:woohoo:



Peace

Hobo
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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 11:40 PM
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1. The Lion's Mound....
...which I climbed last year. Inspiring isn't it?
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 09:25 AM
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2. Actually, the line of the dukes is still going in that family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_8th_Duke_of_Wellington

The great-great-grandson of the Waterloo one, if my counting is correct. He's 95 now; his daughter Jane was Prince Charles' girlfriend for a bit.

I'll give you a Wellington quote about Waterloo, though: "It has been a damned serious business ... the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. ... By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington
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