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The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine: "In a few months, the British royal family will be yet again rebranded and relaunched in the panoply of a wedding. Terms like 'national unity' and 'people's monarchy' will be freely flung around. Almost the entire moral capital of this rather odd little German dynasty is invested in the post-fabricated myth of its participation in 'Britain's finest hour.' In fact, had it been up to them, the finest hour would never have taken place. So this is not a detail but a major desecration of the historical record—now apparently gliding unopposed toward a baptism by Oscar."

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Monsoon by Robert Kaplan

In gujarat, globalization spurs division between Hindu and Muslim

"whether it is the Nauruan empire in India or the achaemendin empire in Persia, for millions lifted out of poverty and recently educated, the bomb now summons forth these great kingdoms of anquity."