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Napoleon wasn't French, Hitler wasn't German, and Stalin wasn't Russian.

There were bolsheviks and mensheviks in Russia in 1917, the former won, it basically means majority.

The Hiroshima A bomb was never tested.  The Nagasaki bomb was more "advanced" and used plutonium instead of uranium in an implosion mechanism and was the type tested in 1945 before being used.  Nuclear weapons today usually are based on plutonium, not uranium (though they can contain some of the latter).  The A bomb now serves as a trigger for the more powerful fusion weapon.

"Northmen" who we sometimes call Vikings today somewhat incorrectly, started spreading out circa 850 AD and one group headed by a fellow named Rollo settled in the area of France we now call "Normandy", oddly enough.  Northmen/Danes had raided Paris several times, and Rollo had control of the Seine River, and in return for keeping the hords out of Paris, the French King gave him the land and a dukedom.  His grandson, born in Falaise with the French name Guillaume, had a claim to the English crown, which he thought was taken from him, so he assembled an army and ships and crossed the "French Channel" and defeated Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England and Duke of France, a situation which lead to hundreds of years of war.  It also greatly impacted our language.

Previously, the Britons were pushed out of England by invading Saxons and Angles into a peninsula called Wales today, and some of them fled by ship to another area of France we now call Brittany, where the local Breton language has some overlap with modern English, and their flag looks a bit like ours.



So, we are German, Danish, French, Norwegian, Irish, Roman, and whatever else as is the English language.

Guillaume pronounced sounds vaguely akin to William.

Cool vid

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I always found it odd that a coworker, who was born in Cuba, and whose birth name was Guillermo, went by "Bill". I had no clue how you got from one to the other. 

I had never known that Guillermo is the Spanish version of Guillaume, which is the French version of William. Hence Guillermo was called Bill.

The father of one of my best friends, is named Guillermo, and we all call him Willy.

He's awesome, he's a former prison corrections officer that now owns a ton of property down in the Rio Grande Valley.  He's loaded and he doesn't trust banks, so he keeps a lot of his money under mattresses at some of his various homes.  He's got hundreds of thousands stashed under there.  One of the houses burned and he said he probably lost $100,000.  I believe him, I've seen some of those mattresses.  A few years back he gave each of his three kids $100,000 in cash.  Just because.

When Germany attacked France in 1940, they had fewer tanks than the French and their tanks were markedly inferior in size and weight versus most French tanks.  They had fewer men, artillery, planes, etc., and the French had the BEF present as an additional force, plus the Maginot Line (which "worked" tactically, if not strategically).

If you "game play" this battle, it's impossible to lose that fast as the French did with even moderate sense.