Re: far away from home
Posted by Guscha On 2011/4/16 10:53:01
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Yes, easily comprehensible. My quotation could be used as parade example, how we shouldn't use wikipedia. Spoken in quantitative perspective wikipedia is a compendium of free accessible knowledge that is able to bring down isolated kingdoms but afflicted with a kind of contour unsharpness.
Another of my mistakes was to talk about a "Sea Cloud" which has been built in Germany. The ship indeed has been built in Germany but its first given name was "Hussar I".
Walking the Plank: this was originally published in Pyle, Howard (August-September 1887). "Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main". Harper's Magazine.
...PS - Gusha, you are correct. What threw me was the picture you posted of Sea Cloud was AFTER her conversion to a U.S. Naval auxilliary in WW II - I was thinking it was of the ship "as built"...
Yes, easily comprehensible. My quotation could be used as parade example, how we shouldn't use wikipedia. Spoken in quantitative perspective wikipedia is a compendium of free accessible knowledge that is able to bring down isolated kingdoms but afflicted with a kind of contour unsharpness.
Another of my mistakes was to talk about a "Sea Cloud" which has been built in Germany. The ship indeed has been built in Germany but its first given name was "Hussar I".
Walking the Plank: this was originally published in Pyle, Howard (August-September 1887). "Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main". Harper's Magazine.
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