To figure out who was the aggressor, who was(were) the empire(s), and whether Britain was the biggest bully in the sandbox.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

It lasted a little over 100 days, the Spaniards lost what little was left to lose of their empire, and America gained a few islands nobody visits. One of the most pointless wars in American history.

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"Bring me that horizon".

Who the aggressor was is a matter of debate and I think there's plenty of blame to pour onto both sides.

As for Britain, I'd say it was one of two or three "superpowers" (the others being Spain, France and, possibly, Holland).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."