Poelcappelle 9 Oct 17

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of ... sso_Convoy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Skerki_Bank

Revised and expanded, in for a B
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Both B class now.

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Someone's going round changing titles like Battle of... to battle of... using something called Google En Grams as a pretext. Ouanqueur.

[The Ibis]

What in the blue blazes is a Ouanqueur?

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It's a variant spelling of "wanker" invented by Steve Bell the former cartoonist of The Guardian newspaper; it's a derogatory term suggesting that someone masturbates. Bell was later purged for criticising the zionist antisemite occupation of Palestine.

[The Ibis]

New, useful, vocabulary words are always a plus. Gracias.

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Tosseur is a good synonym too. ;O)

[The Ibis]

Tosseur is a good synonym too. ;O)

Now that I know what the gimmick is, I can figure it out.

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Eythenkew!

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Ploughing through hundreds of articles I have on watch to remove redundant sfn anchors from biblio templates.

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I'm also adding the editors of Der Weltkrieg volumes, now that I've remembered that I have them in Wells, J. Official Histories of the Great War 1914-1918 (2011) ISBN 978-1-84574-906-4

Since I'm off for a fortnight, I'll try to make time for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Patrol and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_16_March_1917

[The Ibis]

Ploughing through hundreds of articles I have on watch to remove redundant sfn anchors from biblio templates.

This is the kind of inside information that makes membership at AHF so valuable! I didn't have any idea that a sfn anchor, whatever that may be, could be redundant.

PS
If you gave the Germans enough sfn anchors in 1914, would the Schlieffen/Moltke plan have succeeded?

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;O) They would only have been held back.

[The Ibis]

Maybe someone should start a what-if thread on it.

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Fnar!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_16_March_1917

Action of 16 March 1917 Revised and expanded, B class