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Bet they weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition either.
Tanker stowaways: Seven men arrested over ship's ‘hijacking’
The stowaways had posed "a clear threat to life on the ship", the Defence Secretary says.
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It did in Germany. AFAIR, none of them got it granted, but in 2018, all pirates had been permitted to stay in Germany until the legal situation with Somalia had been solved. The younger ones wanted to stay in Germany, the youngest one even has a good chance there, since he was illegally sentenced (court made him 4 years older than he was, the prison later corrected his age based on his growth in that time) and his parents were living in a UN camp in Kenia at that time. One of the older pirates wanted back to his wife and children, but Somalia did not want him back in 2018...
Generally, what spoke for them in 2018 was, that none of them wanted to be in Germany in first place, but had to be inprisoned here, because the ship they attacked was registered in Hamburg.
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I knew The Houses of Parliament had been bombed, didn't know it took till 1950 to get it back together.
The day the Commons came back from the Blitz
Rare archive footage shows the destruction of the House in 1941 and King George VI welcoming MPs back.
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Brother of Spitfire pilot found in Kent
Flying officer Sydney Hatfield Cheeseman, 21, from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, disappeared while he was escorting US Marauder bombers to raid the Luftwaffe-occupied Gilze-Rijen Air Base in the Netherlands. Yet neither Sydney nor his plane were ever seen again and he is presumed to have drowned in heavy seas.
Now after 76 years at sea, remains of his Spitfire have been found on a beach in the Dutch village of Vrouwenpolder.
Sydney’s only surviving relative and younger brother, John Cheeseman, 88, who lives in a nursing home in Kent was relieved to get closure after so many years. He still has cherished childhood memories of his brother. ‘It’s really cheered John up,’ said the Nursing Home administrator.
‘I remember how he used to take me out on his bike,’ he said. ‘I was about eight or nine when he went. Mum didn’t want him to go in the air force. ‘We were told he’d gone missing not long after it happened’.
Records show the raid was a success, with the occupied airfield pounded by 89 tons of high explosives, destroying an estimated 50,000 litres of fuel.
The remains of the Spitfire found last month will form part of the collection at the Wings to Victory, a Second World War museum focused on air operations over the Netherlands.
Flying officer Sydney Hatfield Cheeseman, 21, from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, disappeared while he was escorting US Marauder bombers to raid the Luftwaffe-occupied Gilze-Rijen Air Base in the Netherlands. Yet neither Sydney nor his plane were ever seen again and he is presumed to have drowned in heavy seas.
Now after 76 years at sea, remains of his Spitfire have been found on a beach in the Dutch village of Vrouwenpolder.
Sydney’s only surviving relative and younger brother, John Cheeseman, 88, who lives in a nursing home in Kent was relieved to get closure after so many years. He still has cherished childhood memories of his brother. ‘It’s really cheered John up,’ said the Nursing Home administrator.
‘I remember how he used to take me out on his bike,’ he said. ‘I was about eight or nine when he went. Mum didn’t want him to go in the air force. ‘We were told he’d gone missing not long after it happened’.
Records show the raid was a success, with the occupied airfield pounded by 89 tons of high explosives, destroying an estimated 50,000 litres of fuel.
The remains of the Spitfire found last month will form part of the collection at the Wings to Victory, a Second World War museum focused on air operations over the Netherlands.
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Well I never knew...
My uncle was on HMS Cattistock, a Hunt Class Destroyer then, though on Gold Beach. Sadly never talked about it.
My uncle was on HMS Cattistock, a Hunt Class Destroyer then, though on Gold Beach. Sadly never talked about it.
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HMS Cattistock, escort destroyer, WW2
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Robert Fisk, veteran UK journalist, dies aged 74
Known for his decades of reporting on the Middle East, Fisk interviewed Osama Bin Laden three times.
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Probably not known outside the UK, did excellent reporting from the Middle East.
Took no prisoners.
Sad to see him go.
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This is increasingly relevant these days:
jedidia
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I thought I had the basics down, but somehow I'm just not getting any matches today...
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Well, fancy that!
Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
A metro train that crashed through a barrier near Rotterdam is left suspended thanks to a sculpture.
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Holy...
And some people think art is useless!
And some people think art is useless!
I thought I had the basics down, but somehow I'm just not getting any matches today...
I find myself in the same situation. Every time I think I know how to write the expression I need, I get everything back, or nothing.
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Damn... and I don't even have a problem using captures for quickly scanning through large log files.
But I still prefer changing the log format to JSON or use ElasticSearch over doing any RegEx-Magic, because RegEx is versatile, but means hard mental work...
Does anybody here have experience with Rust? I just tumbled over a nice Roguelike programming tutorial in Rust, but the more I try it, the more I feel like I maybe understand 1% of Rust by it. Its must still be close to C++, but the semantics are way more arcane to me...
Introduction - Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust
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Damn... and I don't even have a problem using captures for quickly scanning through large log files.
But I still prefer changing the log format to JSON or use ElasticSearch over doing any RegEx-Magic, because RegEx is versatile, but means hard mental work...
Does anybody here have experience with Rust? I just tumbled over a nice Roguelike programming tutorial in Rust, but the more I try it, the more I feel like I maybe understand 1% of Rust by it. Its must still be close to C++, but the semantics are way more arcane to me...
Introduction - Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust
That would be me. Read the book and expect to fail multiple times before it clicks.
The learning curve is steep but worth it.
Hit me up if you need a hand
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Read a couple of lines, realised immutability is default, already feel at home. Shame I don't really have the time to learn a new language right now.
Overall it looks like a merger of object-oriented and functional paradigms similar to what kotlin did, except for C++ rather than Java...
Overall it looks like a merger of object-oriented and functional paradigms similar to what kotlin did, except for C++ rather than Java...
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Today, as part of the Dutch national program to salvage aircraft wrecks of WWII which started last year, the salvage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 has started. It's the third excavation of a wreck which most likely has remains of the pilot still present. Not only British and American aircraft wrecks are salvaged, also German ones. About 30-50 of such wrecks are still scattered around the country.
Decades after the end of the war, relatives finally receive information about the place where their loved ones died and bring closure to the heavy war history in their families.
In 1944 there were fierce air battles between the Allies and Germans above the eastern border of the Netherlands. On January 30, the German Messerschmitt of the type BF 109 G6 crashed close to the little village Hoonhorst. Investigations indicate that this must be one of the two Messerschmitts that took off from Volkel in the afternoon on a mission to prevend American bombers from reaching the German border. It is not known to date who exactly was the pilot who piloted the warplane. It's either Greorg Graf zu Ortenburg or pilot Otto Tillack. Both are still reported missing after all these years.
Some eye witnesses of the crash are still alive. What they have always suspected, has since yesterday been confirmed. Salvage specialists have found remains of the pilot. Now it is certain: the German pilot was unable to escape to safety and was indeed killed in his singleseat fighter.
During the salvage work that started on Monday, the salvage companies found quite a few remnants of the plane in a 5 meter deep hole, such as parts of an engine block, two propeller blades and kilos of twisted steel. They are surprised. “I did not expect the tail wheel to be there. That is virtually intact, "said Major Bart Aalberts, who is a salvage officer for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. "You can even see the inner tube."
A lot of ammunition was also found, such as a considerable number of small grenades. Two machine guns and a cannon were also taken out of the ground. Even the handgun that the pilot had in his pocket has been found. "The material is hardly affected by corrosion" said a specialist from the Explosives Ordnance Disposal Service (EOD). As a result, all data and even the eagle, the symbol of the Nazis, can still be recognized in the steel. The EOD will detonate the explosive material on the spot in a controlled manner on Friday.
The search for the identity of the pilot has now started. The registration number of the aircraft is required for this. Examination of the bone remains may also lead to more information. It will be weeks if not months before the identity of the pilot - after consultation with the German authorities and next of kin - is released. The remains will most likely be reburied at the German military cemetery Ysselsteyn in Limburg.
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Decades after the end of the war, relatives finally receive information about the place where their loved ones died and bring closure to the heavy war history in their families.
In 1944 there were fierce air battles between the Allies and Germans above the eastern border of the Netherlands. On January 30, the German Messerschmitt of the type BF 109 G6 crashed close to the little village Hoonhorst. Investigations indicate that this must be one of the two Messerschmitts that took off from Volkel in the afternoon on a mission to prevend American bombers from reaching the German border. It is not known to date who exactly was the pilot who piloted the warplane. It's either Greorg Graf zu Ortenburg or pilot Otto Tillack. Both are still reported missing after all these years.
Some eye witnesses of the crash are still alive. What they have always suspected, has since yesterday been confirmed. Salvage specialists have found remains of the pilot. Now it is certain: the German pilot was unable to escape to safety and was indeed killed in his singleseat fighter.
During the salvage work that started on Monday, the salvage companies found quite a few remnants of the plane in a 5 meter deep hole, such as parts of an engine block, two propeller blades and kilos of twisted steel. They are surprised. “I did not expect the tail wheel to be there. That is virtually intact, "said Major Bart Aalberts, who is a salvage officer for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. "You can even see the inner tube."
A lot of ammunition was also found, such as a considerable number of small grenades. Two machine guns and a cannon were also taken out of the ground. Even the handgun that the pilot had in his pocket has been found. "The material is hardly affected by corrosion" said a specialist from the Explosives Ordnance Disposal Service (EOD). As a result, all data and even the eagle, the symbol of the Nazis, can still be recognized in the steel. The EOD will detonate the explosive material on the spot in a controlled manner on Friday.
The search for the identity of the pilot has now started. The registration number of the aircraft is required for this. Examination of the bone remains may also lead to more information. It will be weeks if not months before the identity of the pilot - after consultation with the German authorities and next of kin - is released. The remains will most likely be reburied at the German military cemetery Ysselsteyn in Limburg.
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