> Very much off topic is what follows. > > Just as a point of information, I think Hitler's election > did not depend on fraud. I think he actually did have > a lot of popular support at one point . Why is a complex > question, but I believe he did, though of course > he was not above fraud if fraud was needed. > Yes, when my children used to come home from 'ra-ra' civics classes, I used to pose the question: "In 1945, of Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and Truman, which were elected as leader in a democratic election?"
> And it is quite true that the search engines, for all their > remarkable power, do not promote in -depth study of things > or issues. Too much piffle comes up too easily--if commercial > interests are invovled > Shameless plug : There is something called the "WWW Virtual Library" that aims to give expert overviews of particular subjects on the Web. (It actually started (by TBL) as a catalogue of the whole Web (e.g. <http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html>).) Finding volunteers (and fighting off the commercialisation attempts) is though increasingly difficult ;-(> Michael _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
