Isn’t that when Krakatoa blew up? (Googles it) Correction! Mount Tambora in Indonesia.
Oh! Here’s an interesting, historical word - There is/was a phrase/verb in the San Francisco Bay Area. I don’t know if it spread to the reset of the US or not.
(They got ‘Shanghaid’) originally meaning to be kidnapped to work on a ship bound for Shanghai, China. Now it generally means they were kidnapped.
Back in the wild ‘Barbary Coast’ days (1849-52) it was NOT safe to be down in the ports when the tide turned because most able-bodied seamen jumped ship and ran off to the goldfields so the captains were short-handed when they were ready to set sail. So they would kidnap likely-looking men, usually drunk, tie them up and stash them below deck until they were beyond swimming distance, then put them to work on deck.
Back then the trading ships went between Shanghai China, San Francisco California, and Lima Peru. San Francisco in 1849 didn’t have any infrastructure at that time so everything was imported from China or Peru.
I thought this would be better here than genealogy one. I do kind of remember this from many years ago, thought it still interesting.
POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN REALLY EXISTED
His real name was Frank “Rocky” Fiegel. He was born in 1868 in Poland and, as a child, immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled down in a small town in Illinois. As a young man, Rocky went to sea. After a 20-year career as a sailor in the Merchant Marines, Fiegel retired. He was later hired by Wiebusch’s Tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois as a ‘Bouncer’ to maintain order in the rowdy bar.
Rocky quickly developed a reputation for always being involved in fighting ( and usually winning)… As a result, he had a deformed eye (“Pop-eye”). He also ‘always’ smoked his pipe, so he always spoke out of one side of his mouth. In his spare time as a Bouncer, Rocky would entertain the customers by regaling them with exciting stories of adventures he claimed to have had over his career as a sailor crossing the ‘Seven Seas.’
The creator of Popeye, Elzie Crisler Segar, grew up in Chester and, as a young man, met Rocky at the tavern and would sit for hours listening to the old sailor’s amazing ‘sea’ stories.’ Years later, Segar became a cartoonist and developed a comic strip called ‘Thimble Theater.’ He honored Fiegel by asking if he could model his new comic strip character, ‘Popeye the Sailor Man,’ after him. Naturally Fiegel was flattered and agreed.
Segar claimed that ‘Olive Oyl,’ along with other characters, was also loosely based on an actual person. She was Dora Paskel, owner of a small grocery store in Chester. She apparently actually looked much like the Olive Oyl character in his comics. He claimed she even dressed much the same way.
Through the years, Segar kept in touch with Rocky and always helped him with money; giving him a small percentage of what he earned from his ‘Popeye’ illustrations.
apanese nurses with a group of Polish orphans who were saved from Siberia.
They had ended up in Siberia because they had fled to Russia as World War 1 escalated in Europe. While there, many grew weak and sick.
Funded by Polish Americans and in partnership with the Japanese Red Cross, they were sent to Tokyo where they were nursed back to health. …
Funded by Polish Americans and in partnership with the Japanese Red Cross, they were sent to Tokyo where they were nursed back to health.
From there, they were sponsored to come to the United States, where Americans help place them in homes. 1920s.
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ok, I have been watching a lot of dramas where women have dressed as men and did it. madam holmes, dr cutie, that’s just two, most favorite isa the story of MULAN , and I thought it was just a story!!!
well I got curious and wondered in all our history if anyone really did that .I am really surprised at this, and bet there’s more in your countries, how about share? teach this “old dog” some new tricks
It’s definately not Czech since it’s my mother’s tongue.
It’s a Slavic language for sure , I thought first Polish but it’s not, looks like Croatian, any one can confirm that?
Well reading what you posted makes you really think about many things. I think it also depends what year is your starting point. What’s also tragic, that many people born then, did not make it!
I did try, maybe wasn’t doing it right, but that link you put on didn’t show up. thanks anyway for the lesson, I will try another one later. ok I re-did it.
Talking about unsinkable, in the video below, starting at 8:20, these time stamps 8:20 - 8:46, and 14:45 onwards shows the salt ponds in SIWA Oasis, in Egypt, and the content creator’s experience. She kept bobbing to the top, unsinkable!
Egypt, and the content creator’s experience. She kept bobbing to the top, 
