History of The World Game

[Ramjet]

Barbara Cartland?
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ (9 July 1901 21 May 2000), was an English author, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century, continuing to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year.
Privately, Cartland took an interest in the early gliding movement. Although aerotowing for launching gliders first occurred in Germany, she thought of long-distance tows in 1931 and did a 200-mile (360 km) tow in a two-seater glider. The idea led to troop-carrying gliders. In 1984, she was awarded the Bishop Wright Air Industry Award for this contribution.

She regularly attended Brooklands aerodrome and motor-racing circuit during the 1920s and 1930s, and the Brooklands Museum has preserved a sitting-room from that era and named it after her.

 

[mando1463]

Lol that was a fun one who would have thought she would have had that connection
Over to you ** please take into account my mental health with your next question that last one was a doozie

 

[Ramjet]

Lol that was a fun one who would have thought she would have had that connection
Over to you ** please take into account my mental health with your next question that last one was a doozie

It's all about learning learning how to research and the amazing facts we learn along the way.

Rod

Try this one.

Approx 10 % of Americans can trace their ancestry back to who?

 

[Nugget]

Approx 10 % of Americans can trace their ancestry back to who?

Charlie Sheen? :lol:, sorry mate I couldn't resist on that one.

 

[Ramjet]

Fair call Nugget
I think he's only got 9%

 

[mando1463]

It is estimated that about 10 percent of Americans today can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower.

 

[Ramjet]

Very good. Thought that would take longer.
The pilgrims landed 300 miles north of where they were aiming for.
It was the beginning of a particularly cold winter. Half of them died.
10% of Americans are descendant from those who survived.

You're go mando

 

[mando1463]

Ok
What was the court case that took place in Melbourne in 1907 known as and
what was its link with Pope Leo XIII

 

[Ramjet]

That's an Aussie question
Should be over in the Aussie history thread

 

[mando1463]

Well I did consider that but being that the second wasnt Australian I thought I would throw it in this one but I can withdraw it and use it there I dont mind either way

 

[Ramjet]

All good.
Just when I started this thread I didn't want to take away from the Aussie one.
Off to work. I'll try work on ya question when I get there

 

[Ramjet]

The Harvester Judgment, as it is known in shorthand, was the result of a case in the industrial courts, fought between a powerful industrialist and social ideologues, that paved the way for the establishment of the principle of the 'basic wage' in Australia.
The Harvester judgement is often referred to as a founding story, from which arguments and debates can hang, rather than a story in its own right. It has also become shorthand for what it was not: it was not about equal pay for women, for example. But here, we draw out the story of the judgment itself, the characters behind it, the workers behind it and the material objects themselves; the 'harvesters' and their significance.

The Harvester hearing took place in Melbourne from October 7 until the November 8, 1907. The Arbitration Court's newly appointed president, Henry Bournes Higgins, heard the case.

"... (Higgins had) courtly manners and a scholarly mind with ultra radicalism, almost priggish lofty principles and quixotic independence- he had a deep compassion for the under privileged."
P.G. McCarthy, 'Justice Higgins and the Harvester Judgement' in Jill Roe (ed) 'Social Policy in Australia 1901 - 1975', Cassell, 1976

A definition of a 'fair and reasonable wage' had to be established. Higgins employed Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, establishing that remuneration "must be enough to support the wage earner in reasonable and frugal comfort". He heard evidence from workers and their wives. Following, he accounted for light, clothes, boots, furniture, life insurance, union pay, sickness, books, newspapers, alcohol, tobacco, transport fares and so on.

Higgins settled on a figure of 2 pounds and 2 shillings per week or 7 shillings a day as a minimum wage. This was higher than what McKay's employees were receiving. McKay was ordered to pay 20,000 pounds in duty.

 

[mando1463]

Nice one Rod over to you

 

[Ramjet]

Who am I? I was a Polish plumber during WW2. What was so special about me?

 

[mando1463]

Eddie Slovik the only american solider to be executed for desertion during ww2

 

[Ramjet]

Nope. Polish plumber. Not a septic

 

[mando1463]

Irena Sendler
During World War II, she was an activist of the Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, where she helped to save more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them with false documents and hiding places in individual and group homes outside of the Ghetto.

Irena Sendler got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumber. She courageously smuggled babies in her tool box and carried larger children in her sack. She also trained her dog to bark when the Nazi soldiers were near, which muffled the sounds of the crying children.

Sendler kept a record of the childrens names in a glass jar buried under a tree in her yard.

Ultimately, the soldiers caught and beat her severely, breaking both of her legs. She persevered and attempted to connect any parents with their children, yet most of the parents had been killed. Most of the children were placed into foster family homes or adopted.

 

[Danielkrupski]

Such a sad truth

 

[Ramjet]

Yes sad but true. What an amazing extaordinary woman.
She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Al Gore got it for a doco on climate change.
She died on May 12 2008. aged 98. RIP Irena.

Over to you Mando

 

[mando1463]

Yes she was definitely a special lady

A nice easy one

When - by whom - and what was the first programmable device