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Image 1 — Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.
Image 2 — Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.
Image 3 — Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.
Image 4 — Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.
Image 5 — Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.
Image 6 — Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.
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Victorian-era "coffin ships" were an insurance scam where owners over-insured rotting ships, overloaded them, and profited when they sank. Sailors who refused to board were jailed. Samuel Plimsoll's crusade ended it, and every cargo ship on Earth bears his mark: the Plimsoll line.

u/BingBingGoogleZaddy — 11 days ago
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The sheer scope of the American Civil War is just insane to me.

So you have a traditional Napoleonic campaign in the east, a brutal guerrilla insurgency/counterinsurgency in the midwest. Indian raids in the west. Recolonization in México, República Dominicana and Đại Nam**.** Pirates attacking global shipping. And Rebels attacking Pro-Western governments and their allies in China and Japan.

How do you respond? Buckle down kick ass and take names.

u/BingBingGoogleZaddy — 2 months ago
▲ 1.0k r/SpanishEmpire+4 crossposts

Over 300,000 Moroccans advance into to the western Sahara in "The Green March," a gigantic demonstration organized in order to wrest control of the territory from Spain, 1975. The cession of the territory to Morocco less than a week before Franco died marked the end of the Spanish Empire (2116x1440)

u/BingBingGoogleZaddy — 3 months ago