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UBIQUE-Royal Engineers and Military Engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth - Biographical notes on officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers and military engineers of the British Empire and Commonwealth from about 1850 through the present day.
Quest Magazine Online - Interactive website for members of the Armed Forces and their families. In conjunction with Quest magazine, it provides information and help for personnel with an interest in education, resettlement training and jobs
Forces Officer Group - A group for officers & senior NCO's in the UK armed forces.
The Federation of Family History Societies - Detailed information on tracing the military careers of your forebears, using various official records. Also has a directory of useful contacts.
Jane's Conferences - Site listing all of Jane's upcoming Defence Conferences as well as details of past events
Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth - Comprehensive source of information on the armies of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
Combat-Online - Unofficial homepage of UK Special Forces, with headlines about the conflicts and threats worldwide. Also links and info on armed forces around the world, tactics, and high-tech modern warfare.
Steve Lewis - Military Photographer - An online portfolio of photographs taken by Steve Lewis, a Royal Navy photographer serving with the Royal Marines.
Bedfordshire War Memorials & Rolls of Honour - Provides detailed information relating to war memorials of all kinds to be found in the County of Bedfordshire.
Armed Forces - Army, Navy, Air Force - Comprehensive, up to date information about the fighting forces of the United Kingdom.
British Military Music - A history of British military music, with information on British fifes, pipes, corps of drums, bugles, trumpets and military bands, along with the evolution of the genres.
RUSI: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies - Professional forum in the UK for national and international defence and security. Includes current activities, future projects, researchers, military sciences department, publications, events and membership details.
Justice4 Our Recruits - A community for families that have been bereaved whilst their children were serving in the UK forces. Making people aware of what is going on in the military, support for those in need.
Air Cadet CENTRAL - Online Magazine for Air Cadets throughout the UK and the rest of the world.
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde Military Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Military Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Military Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Military You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Military Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW Military If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Military Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Military "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Man and wife make one fool. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Military "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck Military "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Military All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Military "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Military Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Military "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Military then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Military Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Military I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Military "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. 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