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They are still ploughing up unexploded ordinance in battle fields of world war one and there are still unexploded sap charges as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest yes it is wikipedia ... Didn't know there were still gas shells as well ...

Direct encoding doesn't seem likely EB = either ë or õ  by  direct Hex to ASCII or HEX to EBCDIC ...  unless the message is foreign or from a heavy metal fan  :clown:  ....

Just as a discussion item would any one care to offer a % of defence expenditure that goes to Search and Rescue? -- genuinely curious

just to report that my regeneration time is NaN/NaN but my CR and CR capacity are fine ... incidentally NaN means 'not a number' is an error response to a calculation; amongst other things it occurs when you try to divide by zero.

Hmm peat bogs and preservation ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollund_Man

I think I've posted this before but it is still appropriate http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/nonmarketoperations/mountainview/military/lastpost.htm

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Another story on this http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/10/24/alexander-johnston-soldier-france.html

War of 1812 mini-game ?

I really like hearing about these stories ... Credit to all those who worked to identify this soldier  :salute:

And as we drift further from the original question and in view of ETA's apparent suspension of armed conflict. Does anyone know if ETA got any of their money (and/or moral support) from the US ? (quite a few 'Basques-Americans ' in Nevada and Idaho).

Gaius Julius Caesar for me Pretty good self-publist as well ... seems to be an essential trait to be appreciated, No love for Maximus Decimus Meridius?

He wasn't Scipio Africanus until after he lead the Romans to victory at Zama.  Just good old Publius Cornelius Wasn't exactly well treated by the Senate after the fact Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis

You may want to be careful of whose opinions you take account of ... I'm neither an historian nor military ... that being said my opinion follows ... {based on reading a whole bunch of books for "fun"}. 1. Do you think that if there was a unified strategy that Ireland would have been more...

I think you have to distinguish the tactics and the strategy here.  A single victory in battle means very little if there is no strategic value and so you lose the war. There was no unified national strategy for much of Ireland's history and lots of factional tribalism (Due to the lack of a...

Have to point out that this is not the case for Fitzpatrick. It was orginally MacGiolaPadraig (from which the less common McGillPatrick) but got changed to Fitzpatrick so as to appear to be Norman. And to further confuse things the Normans descended from Vikings. Now if we can only get...

Talk your urban/rural : North/south divides . Does anyone know when the next gerrymandering :  electoral reapportionment is scheduled

Excellent stuff I wonder if the G&M has received any adverse comments on the reported municipal recipient .. some people get upset about that kind of thing (Derry vs. Londonderry).

Maximizing resource allocation = efficiency = laziness

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