Top Items About Englishmen
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| Anecdotes | British governor of New York grapples with his self-worth | The American colonies were not like those in other parts of the | root | 131 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Celebrities, Food and Italy | George Carlin: `I didn`t write this but.. I think it`s worth repeating: The difference between heaven and hell. In... | Anonymous | 61 | |
| Anecdotes | Indiscretion | "No secret of the war [World War I] was better kept than the departure of the British Mission to America in April 1917.... | Anonymous | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | Palmerston | "If I were not a Frenchman," Lord Palmerston was once gallantly told, "I should wish to be an Englishman." "If I were not... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | British Army | German chancellor Otto von Bismarck was once asked what he would do if the British Army landed in Germany. His reply?... | Anonymous | 16 | |
| Anecdotes | Little Lady | While out for a stroll one day, the Queen Mother and her small daughter Margaret Rose were approached by an admirer. "So... | Anonymous | 16 | |
| Anecdotes | Insuperably Shy | "I invited Ronald Firbank to tea," the poet Siegfried Sassoon once recalled. "Anxious to entertain him properly, I bought... | Anonymous | 15 | |
| Anecdotes | Douglas-Away | After Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser`s funeral, British foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home returned to his... | Anonymous | 15 | |
| Anecdotes | Elderly Englishmen | Winston Churchill was once informed that a man over seventy-five years of age had been arrested in Hyde Park for... | Anonymous | 14 | |
| Anecdotes | Ernest Shackleton: Proper Englishman | During his legendary 1914 expedition to Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton`s ship ... | Anonymous | 14 |
