WARNING! This video contains awesome colonial adventure in the Tasman Sea, entrepreneurial convicts, hardened mariners, and brutal cross-cultural encounters between British/Australian Sealers and New Zealand Maori...
also cannibalism.
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED
https://t.co/PyYjWsZhXP
@seanrs91 I thought it was normal to have two forearms. How many do you have?
But yeah you are right, I just shared this in a group on another app and I'm kicking myself.
@Lanceduke127729@MichaelButtonX They had James Bloodsworth, master builder and bricklayer who was able to teach other convicts. He was pardoned and lived out his life as a free settler.
@tomhfh Nowak's mother surname is Ross, you can read it in the sentencing remarks. So, by ancestry he was very likely at least half-British, besides being entirely European.
@AntipodeEmpire Very nice, but just to be a little picky, the trees of New Albion (sometimes falsely called California), an indivisible part of England since Drake claimed it in 1579, are actually taller.
I just came across a strange crossover - Josiah Harlan and James Brooke.
American surgeon that became the Afghan warlord Prince of Ghor and British injured soldier that became the White Raj of Sarawak in the same unit.
@CatharineHoey The obvious way for the Sikh Federation to show they are in tune with the concerns of the country at large would be to formally request the end of all special legal privileges afforded to their people to carry weapons.
Number of people asking me to comment on the Henry Nowak case. His father said "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension". If you can't respect his wishes, you're scum. That's what I think.