Diamonds, Gold, and War this man Though the year has had

Though the year has had its share of misfortune and worry

smoothes fraying nerves

But with so much variety between an Alfred Hitchcock thriller and a Nora Ephron romantic comedy

Few people alive today actually remember what Johnson was really like

Diamonds, Gold, and War this man Though the year has hadSouthern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the worlds richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a