[78-L] ^ Story of the LP

Donna Halper dlh at donnahalper.com
Mon Dec 1 09:23:40 PST 2008


At 12:19 PM 12/1/2008, you wrote:
>Chris Zwarg wrote:
> > At 17:39 01.12.2008, you wrote:
> >
> >> er... wouldn't that be the 90th anniversary?
> >> M
> >>
> >
> > Not quite - before Sep.1st 1939, there was no reason to call it 
> "FIRST" World War; usually English-speaking people referred to the 
> 1914-18 war simply as "The Great War".

Umm, actually most newspapers just called it "The World War," since 
there was no way to know there'd ever be another. 




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