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02-14-18, 10:52 AM | #2221 |
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02-14-18, 01:37 PM | #2222 |
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It made the prize regulation impossible. Full text of "International law documents : regulation of maritime warfare, 1925" , from 40 on (but not only)
https://archive.org/stream/internati...5nava_djvu.txt
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02-14-18, 06:55 PM | #2223 | |
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INDEED!
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02-15-18, 03:09 AM | #2224 |
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^ This, also including neutral merchants (certainly carrying contraband) into allied convoys. Next, Q-ships. History is still being blurred, and intentionally so.
edit: but i did not mean that a controlling ship had the international right to treat the armed "civilian" vessel as a military ship, treat the crew as military, and sink it (which is bad enough). We know that german U-boat commanders usually did not deliberately target and kill the crew, both wars. What i mean is, just like in WW1, the arming of civilian merchants (making them military ships, with a military (if small) crew to fire the guns) broke international law. By this international law a military ship was allowed to stop and search neutral merchant vessels for contraband and then take it as a prize or sink it, and even sink enemy merchants without hailing in certain areas! Complicated enough with british merchants notoriously running under false flags. This was a "nice" move by british politics, since the sinking of any "neutral" ship could instantly be used for propaganda and blamed on those brutish germans. Truth is, they cheated, and let the outcome be carried on the shoulders of civilian crews. And the propaganda is still strong. Truth is that even obvious enemy allied merchants were usually stopped, the crew allowed to leave ship, and only then sunk. Also in WW2. But the armament of merchants, and the running of neutral ships carrying contraband in enemy convoys, made the prize regulation impossible. A U-boat could not risk to surface and stop a surface merchant, when one shot could sink the boat.
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02-15-18, 08:52 AM | #2225 |
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1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die.
1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (the People's Car, aka the Kaefer/beetle). 1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched. 1942 German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery. 1942 World War II: British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese. 1944 Attack begins at Monte Cassino monastery, Italy. 1952 King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England. 1971 After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency.
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02-16-18, 07:26 AM | #2226 |
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600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze.
1916 The US rejects the right of Germany and Austria-Hungary to sink armed merchant ships. 1916 The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania. 1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus. 1940 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate aliied sailors from vessles sunk by the Graf Spee, off Norway. 1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery. 1942 Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one nurse and two soldiers survive. 1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip. 2006 The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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02-17-18, 09:02 AM | #2227 |
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1936 The world's first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his first appearance in comics.
1940 Crew of the British destroyer Cossack board German Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, and realised 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass. 1972 British Parliament votes to join the European Common Market.
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02-17-18, 02:39 PM | #2228 | |
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THIS BEING A SUBMARINE FORUM: 2 # 1's
WRONG! 1864: CSS Hunley with eight intrepid super heroes (of crew #3!!??-the first 2, incl. owner/inventor Horace Hunley himself, had died in previous experiments.....) <sink the USS Housatonic in Charlston Harbor leading (ultimately) to the creation of !https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/civil-war-submarine-hunley-crew/index.html Additionally: the invention of electronic submarine warfare:
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02-17-18, 03:39 PM | #2229 |
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Sorry for interrupting your discussion
The Phantom is a phantasy figure While the crew of CSS Hunley was, depending on which side you were in the civil war, real life heroes. Markus |
02-17-18, 08:27 PM | #2230 | |
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ONE MAN'S FANTASY IS ANOTHER'S NIGHTMARE
^TRUE THAT! BUT ONE FAMOUS CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN DECLARED THE CONFEDERACY...."DIED OF A THEORY"! THEORIES ARE OFTEN FANTASIES ERGO IMHO:
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02-18-18, 10:34 AM | #2231 |
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1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
1977 Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on its maiden flight. 2016 Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border.
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02-19-18, 09:58 AM | #2232 |
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1906 Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's.
1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area. 1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance. 1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin. 1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines. 1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma. 1964 UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US.
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02-19-18, 10:25 AM | #2233 | |||
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Regarding "superheroes", this is a term for comics, not real life. By all courage and spirit, labelling them as such seems wrong for me
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The Kaiser wanted no war, but demanded the same rights as other nations of the time, read: colonies. He did neither intend to invade England, nor attack the Royal Navy. Nor did he intend to concquer the world (shown in all those nice Entente propaganda posters of the time), which b.t.w. England had already done Quote:
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02-20-18, 11:09 AM | #2235 |
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1938 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigns stating Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has appeased Nazi Germany.
1938 Adolf Hitler announces his support for Japan during the Sino-Japanese War. 1941 First transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland. 1942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers, becomes America's first World War II flying ace. 1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence. 1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate. 1962 John Glenn become 1st American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7.
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