Interesting Facts and Stories

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yeah... the family tree is confusing... big famely :D

Sweden almost controled the whole baltic sea when we was as biggest :)
 
The average age of the American GI in Vietnam was 19 years old.
I was in country for 2 weeks when I turned 19.
 
Based upon the inhabitants' recent vote it looks like it's going to stay that way for a while longer as well.

"An overwhelming 99.8 percent of Falkland Islands voters have backed keeping their government just the way it is: a British Overseas Territory. Of the 1,517 valid votes cast, only 3 islanders voted "no" to the question: 'Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?' One vote was somehow lost, officials said Monday.

The referendum was aimed at showing the world that the residents' self-determination must be considered in any discussion about the future of the remote South Atlantic islands that are claimed by both Britain and Argentina.

Elections officials reported a 92 percent turnout among the approximately 1,650 Falkland Islands voters eligible to cast ballots in the referendum. International election observer Juan Henao said the process was completely normal. The islands' 2,563 residents did all they could ahead of the vote to show their sympathies, waving Union Jack flags and dressing up in red-white-and-blue.

'The referendum will show the world how we feel, that we are British and that we wish to remain British. We don't want to have nothing to do with Argentina, at all,' islander Barry Nielson said as he voted." - Fox News

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Old Abe was a bald eagle who became a hero for miraculously helping Union troops during the U.S. civil war.- A female bird who was nonetheless named in honor of then-U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, Old Abe showed remarkable courage while accompanying troops in many battles.-

She served as an inspirational mascot for Union troops, improving their morale and seeming to cheer them on by spreading her wings out and screaming out loud, fierce calls when they moved into action.-

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Although Confederate troops often tried to capture or kill Old Abe, she remained safely with Union troops and survived the entire war.-

After the war, Old Abe went to live in a place of honor inside the U.S. Capitol building. She helped save the U.S. Capitol from destruction in 1881 by using her piercing call to alert people to a fire that had broken out in the build.-

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Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS (HIAG) was an organization founded in 1951 by former members of the Waffen-SS.-

General OTTO KUMM was a General serving with the Waffen SS.- He was one of the founders of H.I.A.G.-
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The main aims of the organisation were to provide assistance to veterans, and campaign for the rehabilitation of their legal status with respect to veterans' pensions. Unlike soldiers of the regular Wehrmacht, pensions had been denied to members of the Waffen-SS as a result of that organisation having been declared criminal in the aftermath of the WW2.-

At its height in the 1960s around 8% of the approximately 250,000 former Waffen-SS members living in West Germany were members of HIAG.[1] During the 1980s, political antagonism towards the organisation grew and it was finally disbanded in 1992.-
 
Amy Johnson was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia, which she achieved at the age of 26. Her flying career began in 1928 and other triumphs included becoming the first female ground engineer licensed by the Air Ministry, and being awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for her flying achievements.-

She went on to work for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and died in 1941 after haivng to parachute out of her plane into the Thames, her body never recovered.-

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98 years ago, on march 28, 1915, the first american citizen is killed in the eight-month-old european conflict that would become known as the WW1.-

Leon Chester Thrasher, a 31-year-old mining engineer and native of Massachusetts, drowned when a German submarine, the U-28, torpedoed the cargo-passenger ship Falaba, on its way from Liverpool to West Africa, off the coast of England.-

Of the 242 passengers and crew on board the Falaba, 104 drowned.- Thrasher, who was employed on the Gold Coast in British West Africa, was returning to his post there from England as a passenger on the ship.-

The Germans claimed that the submarine's crew had followed all protocol when approaching the Falaba, giving the passengers ample time to abandon ship and firing only when British torpedo destroyers began to approach to give aid to the Falaba. The British official press report of the incident claimed that the Germans had acted improperly: It is not true that sufficient time was given the passengers and the crew of this vessel to escape. The German submarine closed in on the Falaba, ascertained her name, signaled her to stop, and gave those on board five minutes to take to the boats. It would have been nothing short of a miracle if all the passengers and crew of a big liner had been able to take to their boats within the time allotted.-
 
Some Vikings buried their dead in boats: distinguished raiders and prominent women were often laid to rest in ships, surrounded by weapons, valuable goods and sometimes even sacrificed slaves.-
 
It is a well known fact that the reason the Vikings pillaged far and wide, was to get away from the women folk back home.
 
On february 1952, two Canadian hockey squads squared off on the frozen Imjin River in Seoul for a match at the height of the Korean War.-

Photo down, Brigadier John Rockingham drops the puck for a match between 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (left) and 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Regiment “Vandoos” (right).-
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The use of DDT increased enormously on a worldwide basis after WWII, because of its effectiveness against the mosquito that spreads malaria and lice that carry typhus.-
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A U.S. soldier is demonstrating DDT-hand spraying equipment while applying the insecticide.
 
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