Italian woman finds live grenade in potato bag
February 28, 2007
If you haven’t read Donovan Webster’s book, or watched the associated documentary, Aftermath: Remnants of War, this story is a timely reminder that war stays with us a very long time indeed.
Highly recommending reading and viewing.
Italian woman finds live grenade in potato bag
Grenade was harvested in French field, officials explain
Feb 28, 2007 12:03 PM
Reuters
NAPLES, Italy – A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.
“I found a bomb in the potatoes,” Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
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France proposed U.K. union, papers show
January 15, 2007
January 15, 2007
Associated Press
LONDON – Would France have been better off under the Queen?
The revelation that the French government proposed a union of Britain and France in 1956, even offering to accept the sovereignty of the British Queen, has left scholars on both sides of the Channel puzzled.
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