[78-L] ^ Story of the LP

[Ken "Silver Showcase"]

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

Umm, actually every reference I've seen from the pre-WWII era - books, 
newspapers, magazines, movies - called it The Great War.  Perhaps some 
might have referred to it as a world war, but the generally accepted 
term for that conflict was The Great War.