Comments by "Todd Webb" (@toddwebb7521) on "The Drydock - Episode 183" video.

  1. On the topic of foreign document troves, there was a distant relative in Germany that was one of Adm Dönitz's secretaries that had like a spare bedroom full of naval documents that they would rather the allies not have at surrender. She's been dead about 15ish years now and I'm sure the docs are long since lost but if there was something like this channel 20 years ago I'd have tried steering you to her to hopefully have had them wind up in the hands of someone interested.
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  2. At the Battle of New Orleans in the war of 1812 cotton bales where able to stop British field artillery and the dismounted from a ship naval guns from the Pirate Jean Lefitte with grape shot and chain shot were able to do quite a number on the British infantry
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  3. Well iirc Drach said Mrs. Drach is South African originally and South Africa is one of the countries that Omicron originated so probably why the delay
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  4. In the era of man powered capstans a stocked having more holding power for the same size anchor was maybe a big deal, when you have mechanically powered just get a bigger anchor if the same size stockless is inadequate
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  5. There's definitely a societal aspect to mental illness. There's different types of hallucinations associated prevalently with schizophrenia in western culture vs eastern culture vs middle eastern culture vs tribal cultures
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  6. Hammock armour on something like a metal tube could also make it less likely to kill someone if that railing or small mast or whatever is thrown about by an explosion. A bare railing tube might impale and kill someone where a hammock wrapped one might break someone's rib and hurt like a sob but not impale and kill them.
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