Addick05
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Addick05
@Addick05Peter
Lifelong Charlton fan. Also keen military historian, specialising in the American Civil War. Enjoy country walks with family; good pubs and restaurants.
Bromley, London Katılım Nisan 2018
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@PeterSweden7 @AWordIfIMay Will they be doing the same for the leftie march ?
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@Gorty674623 @HiddenHistoryYT Corruption isn’t limited to America.
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161 years ago today, more Americans died in a single night than on the Titanic.
The country barely noticed.
April 27, 1865. 2 a.m. The steamboat Sultana is churning up the Mississippi just north of Memphis. She is rated to carry 376 passengers and 85 crew, 461 souls total. On board that night: roughly 2,130.
Three of her four boilers explode almost simultaneously.
The men packed onto her decks aren't tourists. They're Union POWs, just released from Andersonville and Cahaba, the worst prisons of the Civil War. Many are skeletons. They survived starvation, dysentery, and up to 23 months of hell. They are going home.
Most of them never make it.
The blast hurls bodies into the air, collapses the smokestacks, and sets the rest of the boat on fire. The river is high and ice-cold from the spring snowmelt. Survivors fight hypothermia, drowning, burning debris, and each other. Men too weak to swim grab anything that floats. Some drown within sight of the Arkansas shore.
The death toll: roughly 1,800. The Titanic killed about 1,500.
Here's what makes it sting:
The Sultana was overloaded on purpose. A corrupt Vicksburg quartermaster named Reuben Hatch took kickbacks to pack the boat. Other steamers waiting at the same dock left nearly empty. When investigators came for him, he resigned and walked away. Reuben's older brother was Ozias Hatch, Abraham Lincoln's close personal friend. No one was ever punished.
The boilers themselves had been patched in Vicksburg with a shortcut repair. Captain J. Cass Mason wanted to keep his lucrative government contract. He died in the explosion.
And here's why you've never heard of any of this. Look at the calendar:
April 14: Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre.
April 15: Lincoln dies.
April 26: John Wilkes Booth is cornered and killed in a Virginia barn.
April 27: the Sultana explodes.
The country was emotionally exhausted. The war was ending. The victims were obscure enlisted men from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, West Virginia. The papers ran the disaster on page 6 and moved on within days.
The Mississippi shifted course over the next century. Today, the wreckage of the deadliest maritime disaster in American history sits buried about 32 feet beneath an Arkansas soybean field, two miles from the modern river. No marker. No monument on the spot.
The new Sultana Disaster Museum opens in Marion, Arkansas this fall.
Tonight, somewhere around 2 a.m. Central, it will be exactly 161 years.

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Porth, South Wales: a small town now has 14 Turkish barber shops.
That’s one salon for every 426 residents.
Locals joke you never queue for a haircut… because there are barely any customers.
Checks showed one new shop had just 4 customers in 4.5 hours on a Wednesday.
Despite 34 letters of objection, the council approved another in a former amusement arcade.
Porth Chamber of Trade chairman says the numbers simply don’t add up and wants planning laws changed.
Government now giving councils powers to curb proliferating shops like these.



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@Skint_Eastwood1 @paulaclark50 Actually she’s probably right, she does work for the Government because it’s clear she doesn’t work for the people. Guarantee she’s not the only one who thinks this. Actually , she polices ‘by consent.’
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🚨HEATED Debate at Migrant Hotel: Met Police Officer Insists “I Work for the Government, Not the Public”
Female officer demands man filming outside Ibis Styles asylum hotel near Heathrow move on.
He refuses, reminding her it’s a public place and she’s a public servant.
She then tells him:
“I’m not a public servant.”
“I’m an emergency service. I respond to emergencies.”
“I’m not a public servant. I don’t serve you, I serve the government, not you.”
“I’m employed by the government, not by you or the public.”
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@madhattermatter @koshercockney Actually gone to see Larry the cat!
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@koshercockney Because the government and the judiciary allow it to?
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@Miketyson2007 Rumours, rumours. Let’s reserve judgment until we know what happened?
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Rumours are that Kaminski has thrown his toys out of the pram after not being picked to start at Watford hence not in the squad….
I wouldn’t be fussed at all if we got rid ,I happy with Manion and can easily get another keeper in at nowhere near the cost of him #CAFC
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@RichSCawley @RogDog_CAFC Would have thought the midfield would have been the priority?
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Nathan Jones says that #cafc will make addressing their attacking deficiencies a major priority in the summer transfer window.
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@Miketyson2007 Midfield really was the key area they dominated us from start to finish
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I see reports that city were better than us all over the pitch … no shit Sherlock they are a championship team with championship players who finished top 6 last year … we are league one players playing in the championship #CAFC
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@RogDog_CAFC @RichSCawley Bloody hope so; it’s so blindingly obvious, week after week.
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@Addick05Peter @RichSCawley I’m hoping he means, attacking creative midfielders
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thesun.co.uk/news/38693563/…
Round them all up, take their phones, trace the call to riot back and hammer the instigators hard.
Then put ankle trackers on all of them, call their parents or guardians and make them responsible.
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@BOWIEW73 @TheBritLad Maybe democracy is our weakness and will be our downfall?
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@TheBritLad If it is voluntary so be it. However if Muslims demand it to all restaurants and grocery stores that would be a problem to democracy.
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@suthersuk @VeoliaUK When isn’t he Man of the Match? Every week he demonstrates just how fortunate we are to have him! Incidentally I thought Mannion had a good game.
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@AVaughan87 @RichSCawley Both penalties were avoidable - especially the Oxford one. However by the letter of the law I can see why both were given. Only exciting incidents in one of the worst games-especially the second half-that it has been my ‘privilege’ to watch.☹️
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@RichSCawley Not saying its not a pen. But there was shirt pulling all over the pitch and Lanks was grabbed round the neck 3 or 4 times. No foul. The refering across all English football is so inconsistent and poor. That's not even talking about how awful the linesman are.
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