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   Ross Clark to All   
   And then there's...   
   30 Mar 25 23:06:18   
   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Memorial Day of the 1848 Revolution (1848–49-es forradalom és   
   szabadságharc) (15 March, Hungary)   
      
   15 March was the start of an insurrection against Austrian rule, which   
   was finally suppressed the following year with the help of the Russians.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848   
      
   Did we do this one before? Doesn't matter, I just happened on this:   
      
   "As a Hungarian, I certainly had no reason whatever to fall in love with   
   Russia, whom I saw in the prime of my life as the oppressor of the   
   national aspirations to libery and independence of my own country. The   
   Russian campaign in Hungary in 1849 is engraved with indelible   
   characters in the heart of every Magyar; and although the late Emperor   
   Nicholas bitterly repented his brothersly service rendered to Austria,   
   and notwithstanding that every Russian soldier has since torn from his   
   breast the medal bearing the inscription "Vengria (Hungary) 1849," we   
   Hungarians still couple the name of "Muscovite" with wilful tyranny and   
   with all the horrors of despotism and barbarism."   
   - Arminius Vámbéry, Travels and Adventures (1883)   
      
   Then, on the next page, he uses the word "autopsy" in a sense recently   
   discussed here (on a.u.e.?):   
      
   "Now on this question [faults and virtues of the English]...I beg to   
   have my own opinion, an opinion based upon autopsy and formed during   
   many years of personal contact, while visiting more than thirty   
   different towns of the United Kingdom."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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