did you know (panama canal)

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:04

did you know an estimated 27500 workers died during its construction



no health and safety in those days

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:11

also during the boer war 53000 boers were killed

thats a lot of people

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:12

winston churchill himself added to the tally racking up 5

stockiefan


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 574

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:14

Thanks, will remember that when we cruise down there in December.

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 15:18

very special monument to the workers by the canal gates

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:02

Winston Churchill was responsible for a lot more deaths than that!!!



DD

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:41

Does anyone know If the changes that resulted from the french revolution resolved the problems that caused it?

twoofus


Joined: 05/05/2011
Posts: 98

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 16:47

Stockiefan, my wife and I cruised the canal 3years ago over Christmas, I'm sure you will find it such an experience, enjoy

denizen



Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 388

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 17:21

msg 6; Winston Churchill was responsible for a lot more deaths than that!



don't go there DD. History was written by winners, no matter the means used to achieve the win.

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 17:33

re msg 9



>>don't go there DD. History was written by winners, no matter the means used to achieve the win.<<



Sadly, Hitler, Napoleon, Saddam Hussein ( all ultimately losers ) burst THAT theory.....



Didn't Winston lose an election after WWII ?

dublinderm


Joined: 26/09/2009
Posts: 538

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 18:37

I was thinking of Churchill's war winning intervention in the Dardanelles.



Of course he had plenty of other 'brilliant plans' as well.



DD

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 20:22

6m;



You cannot be comparing Churchill with that lot surely?



What have the Irish got against him?



It's a serious question.

keldanreb


Joined: 17/09/2009
Posts: 212

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 20:51

50,000 were killed in one morning on the somme,english,irish,scots,welsh.

erolz


Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3456

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 21:03

http://www.bread.org/hunger/global/



"Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That's one child every five seconds."

stockiefan


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 574

Message Posted:
12/08/2011 22:15

two of us, thanks, looking forward to it very much.

dusty48


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 258

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 00:11

cyprusairsoft So why did they die ?????

Sugarpuffbear


Joined: 14/05/2010
Posts: 64

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 00:16

The majority died of Malaria or Yellow Fever as there were no antibiotics or medicines to deal with them then.

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 09:35

and they were working at great heights with no safety lines etc falling daily



concretete was used on massive ammounts a few got covered in concrete

loads of crush victims

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 09:41

a lot of workers died during the french side of construction says it all doesnt it and another 5600 during the american side 1914



another interesting fact is the japanese planned an attack using giant submarines which carried a plane inside and launched off a ramp on the sub luckily they were discovered



take a look at this its very impressive



http://www.subart.net/final_act.htm

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 11:39

Msg1 20,000 died in the first year,most from mozzie related diseases ....Malaria,yellow Fever,this continued until William Gorgas,a Frenchman and hundreds of natives ,spent a whole year and actually eradicated the mosquito .....some achievement ..

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 11:53

Dont for get to save any old bread to feed the donkeys Steve.

bignobby


Joined: 13/01/2011
Posts: 46

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 13:52

I did that Hippo

I was in the merchant navy with P.S.N.C. and all the old salts had me saving the bread for the donkeys,

felt a fool when I got there

dusty48


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 258

Message Posted:
13/08/2011 23:47

yes you have done your home work