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The This is the Friends of History debating society in a storm live.

We're joined by Germanicus and the Centurians in a storm. We're by the Thames, a raging storm. But it doesn't bother us because we've got our

cup of wine and we're here to review the 21st century, especially events that are easily explainable

in terms of the previous 20 centuries.

However, if you just spring upon them, they look very odd.

For example, the Greenland affair,

what is that about?

Where is that going?

Or the emperor, the emperor of the United States of America, speaking poorly of the British Army, where is that going? And then my favorite moment of the last 20 centuries is reviewing where Lord Lovett comes from.

Lord Lovett, a hero of Sword Beach, the Green Berets, the Special Commandos of the British Army in 1944.

Where does he come from?

And does he come from Hannibal?

The famous general who crossed the Alps and surprised the Roman confidence with elephants.

Those are questions we're going to attempt to answer.

Germanicus is here to help me, especially with the business of the Greenland affair.

There's so much irony here, you can't get past the first paragraph.

You've got connections going everywhere.

Well, Germanicus has made us a decision.

He's going to take us by the hand and lead us to a man named Bonaparte from Corsica,

who by the time we speak has made a decision that he needs money.

There's been trouble in the sugar plantations of Haiti, and therefore he needs cash right now.

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