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To readers of Portsmouth, 1905:
Reviews of hits and site usage through May continue to reflect robust, increasing overall activity and increasing international activity. In addition to strong interest from the United States (and dispersed US military, intelligence, defense), we also have significant readership (in roughly the order they appeared) in Japan, The Russian Federation, France, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, India, the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Israel, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Canada, Brazil, Luxembourg, Seychelles, China, Turkey, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Argentina, Denmark, Ireland, Korea, Poland, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Thanks to you all for making it such a rewarding experience. The time is approaching for me to take down the “Portsmouth, 1905” site. This will occur effective July 12. Please let any friends who might be mid-stream in their reading know about this so they can be sure to get to the ending before that date.
GB
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© Gene Boccialetti, 2007: Not to be quoted or reproduced without permission.
"Faithfulness to the truth of history
involves far more than a research,
however patient and scrupulous, into
special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings, near and remote; in the character, habits and manner of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes."
Francis Parkman, Pioneers of France in the New World, 1865