Talk:World History Lecture Thirteen

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Somalia

Somalia was formed from British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland but NOT French Somaliland. French Somaliland became the separate independent state of Djibouti.

Also, you have omitted the significant colonial acquisitions made by Germany between the 1880s and the 1914-18 War: Kamerun, German South West Africa, German East Africa (Tanganyika). Pachyderm 09:47, 30 August 2007 (EDT)

Mrs Gandhi

did not succeed her father, Nehru, on his death but two years later. Pachyderm 11:20, 31 August 2007 (EDT)

UK/Palestine

The UK returned its mandate over Palestine to the UN. It did not 'ask the UN to partition Palestine'. Pachyderm 11:20, 31 August 2007 (EDT)

Golda Meir

Golda Meir was the third women in history to run a nation

Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Mary Tudor, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Anne, Christina of Sweden, Catherine the Great, the Dowager Empress Cixi... Pachyderm 11:44, 31 August 2007 (EDT)

Ethnic Cleansing

Your comments are a disgrace. 'Ethnic cleansing' and racial murder by all parties in Bosnia is well-documented, but was principally carried out by Serbs of Moslems. To try and deny this by blaming it on an 'anti-Christian' press is obscene. Pachyderm 11:44, 31 August 2007 (EDT)

Errors

"Latin America" is Spanish America and Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken. Put another way, Latin America is all of America south of the United States.

No: what about Surinam, Guyana and French Guiana? they do not speak Spanish or Portugese.

Also, many other errors in this essay (and others) have been pointed out to you. Why do you persist in perpetuating inaccuracies? Pachyderm