Just in case anybody's wondering, I've seen this little thing around the Web the last couple of days that tells you to do a Google search on "French military victories", and then click "I'm feeling lucky". This causes Google to respond that no results are found, and it asks you, "Did you mean French military defeats?" Heh heh heh.
Except that it's a prank, folks. Don't take this as meaning, well, anything.
When you click "I'm feeling lucky" on Google, that takes you directly to the Number One page in the Google search results. In this case, someone's finagled a page to look exactly like a real Google page, as described above. (And, in fact, that page has now been replaced by another that's soared to "Number One".)
(BTW, France's past is certainly checkered -- as is the past of just about every European nation -- but they've had their military successes. Yeah, it's been almost a thousand years since the Battle of Hastings, but I wonder how different British history might have turned out had William the Conqueror lost there. And of course, Napoleon Bonaparte was something of a military success before he overreached. And then there's the greatest Frenchman in history. He hasn't been born yet, of course, but his destiny is to shape humanity's outreach to the stars. I'm talking, of course, about Captain Jean-Luc Picard.)
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