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August 2: 216 BC – Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal (bust pictured) defeated a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy. 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground railway, opened beneath the River Thames in London. 1903 – The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire carried out the Ilinden Uprising. 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Chancellor Adolf Hitler became Führer, making him both the head of state and the head of government of Nazi Germany. 1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, overrunning the Kuwaiti military within two days, and eventually sparking the outbreak of the Gulf War seven months later. More events: August 1 – August 2 – August 3 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 18:25, June 14, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Contents 1 Link suggestions 2 Explanation of style revert 3 To the constant reverters 4 Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising

[edit] Link suggestions

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I added the links that made sense. Edward 00:19, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Explanation of style revert

An anon user changed multiple entries from the same year from:

1. 1944 - The "Zigenerblock of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated. The last 3000 Sinti and Roma are murdered by German SS.
2. 1944 - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.

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1. 1944 - The "Zigenerblock of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated. The last 3000 Sinti and Roma are murdered by German SS.

• • - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.

In my opinion this formatting is inferior because the algignments don't flow, and it makes the second entry look like a subsiduary of the first, which it isn't necessarily. For this reason I have reverted to the former style. Thryduulf 01:36, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] To the constant reverters

See the article of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising and comment there.   /FunkyFly.talk_  22:36, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising

Please refer to sources listed in that article instead of mechanically removing clarifications. Mr. Neutron 18:06, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

The IMRO article does not state the ethnicity of the combatants rather than the organization itself. Frightner 18:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Check again: The rebellion in Macedonia affected most of the central and southwestern parts of the Bitola Vilayet receiving the support of the local Bulgarian peasants, Grkomani and Vlach population of the region. It is the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie one. Mr. Neutron 18:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Read the articles used as sources, it specifically refers to the population living within the Macedonian boundaries as "Macedonians". Your reference does not prove that the uprising was carried out solely by Bulgarians and Greeks. Frightner 18:28, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Btw, the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprishing did not take part only in the region of Macedonia, but also in the Odrin region. Mr. Neutron 18:37, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Please provide sources for your claims, you have not done this on an outstanding amount of occasions. Please refer to this map which outlines the geographic locations of the individual rebellions. Frightner 18:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

As mentioned, read sources at Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising, and stop waving some maps from Macedonist forums. Mr. Neutron 19:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

I am not waving anything. Unlike yourself, I am providing adequate criteria to help you understand my opinion and to further resolve this debate. Frightner 19:40, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

So why don't you go ahead and read the article then? So far the only thing you have proved is that you have not done this. --Laveol ^T 21:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Please read the previous comments Laveol before jumping to conclusions. Frightner 09:12, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

As far as I see you're the one jumping into conlusions without first reading the article in question and checking the sources behind it. --Laveol ^T 10:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Neutron clearly stated " "Macedonian" ethnicity did not exist then". He then referred me to the sources in the IMRO article which clearly identify individuals living within Macedonia's borders as Macedonians. As far as I'm concerned, users such as yourselves constanly change your POV to suit your nationalistic beliefs. Frightner 10:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

You have read this in non-etnic Macedonian sources? Are you sure? --Laveol ^T 11:25, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Unless John McDonald is an ethnic Macedonian, then yes I am sure. Frightner 11:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)