What are the differences between a 16th Century Galleon, and an 18th Century Ship of the Line?

I looked after a couple of German guys who were POW's in Perth shire and liked it so much here they didn't leave! They were conscripts and were just glad to survive

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Good to know. I had no idea.

Very interesting, I love reading these posts!

Wait til they hear about the homosexuals in camps that the British just let them take out of the camps and put in prison.

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There are no Israeli settlements in Gaza, you’re thinking of the West Bank. You have no clue what you’re babbling about.

This kind of treatment was quite widespread probably. Atleast in Finland on the farm my grandfather lived on there was a Soviet POW of the Winter War who worked there. He mostly worked physical labour on the farm and also slept and lived there but it turned out he was a very skilled shoemaker. He carved lasts by hand from wood and made boots for pretty much everyone on the farm. When the war was over and he was sent back to Soviet Union my grandfather remembers that he cried and tried to beg the officials to let him stay on the farm and I think everyone on the farm wouldn't have had an issue with that. Alas, he was sent back and that's where his story ends from our point of view.

To be honest I'm more concerned with the Lebensraum being created in Gaza for Israeli settlers right now and considering this happened only 70 yrs ago you'd think these suffering victims would be turning over in their graves at what their grand children are doing.

The Isle of Man mostly. Nice spot, still barbed wire patrolled by soldiers though.

It was one of those NPR-ish podcasts. I was thinking This American Life, but someone else said there was a Radiolab episode about it, which I have also been listening to for a long time. Definitely not one of the conversational ones that are more popular now, something produced in a storytelling way.

That guy and the people that upvoted him clearly want our past in the west to be whitewashed. Concentration camp carries a negative connotation due to the Nazis but the internment camps we had are the literal definition of them. Internment is just a euphemism so people don't associate them with the death camps.

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Can someone follow this post until the upvotes matches the year this happened and grab a screenshot. Someone. Not me

Wait until you find out what they did in South Africa in 1899.

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That actually does sound like being in the army.

> They live that close to where they work etc

Nice, but I'd get fat - I need the exercise of biking to work 😄

All fun and games until you run into Australian magic Angela Lansbury. Or drop bears.

I believe it was a scouting mission, but I’m not sure there is much more recorded than that

It does. I imagine it’s a slight exaggeration or maybe that family just didn’t visit them. I do recall hearing most people living in the cities spend almost all their time within a very small area, something like a square kilometre. They live that close to where they work etc

> I told my mother about this and she told me about her friend her in Japan whose child didn’t walk on grass until they were about 10.

That's very odd because I'm sure even Tokyo has parks. Not to doubt your mom or anything.

Curious what the exact game plan there was.

In the Wehrmacht: "No food today, only Benzedrine! Also you might die. But hey, Gott Mit Uns!"

In prison camp: "Soup's on. Then a day of farm work, then Fusball. Nobody's died yet."