Adamant wrote on Oct 1
st, 2014 at 11:19pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Oct 1
st, 2014 at 11:07pm:
Adamant wrote on Oct 1
st, 2014 at 10:54pm:
Interesting, Caliph. I'll have a read of that.
What I wrote came from a synthesis of several books I have on "The Great Game", a topic I've been interested in now for some time, ever since I read Kim by Kipling as a boy.
No links then Brian. Thanks for another non answer.
Brian is an academic and a historian so he typed that all from memory. Oh wait, sometimes he is not an academic...
Quote:Brian Ross wrote:DL, I haven't claimed to be an academic. I've never been employed as one nor claimed to hold any academic standing. That is a product it appears of your febrile imagination. I'll leave you to keep up your strawmen arguments yourself.
From the nice person who hasn't even the brains to remember his previous announcements of being an academic.
Quote:Brian Ross wrote:I have been a published academic at several points in my life, Sappho. ?
Quote:Brian Ross wrote:Actually, DL, I referred to several webpages before I typed that out, to make sure what I remembered from my academic days was correct.
Quote:Brian Ross wrote:You must move in very different academic circles to myself
Quote:Brian Ross wrote:Funny, is that why whenever I or anybody else bring up their academic qualifications or knowledge you attack them personally? ?
I guess you can judge for yourself how worthwhile his claims of being a historian are.