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Resistance is futile: June 2014
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My blog on Italian POWs in Australia. I use this blog as a soap box to preach (ahem. to talk :-) about subjects that interest me. Sunday, June 22, 2014. Books: Writings on an Ethical Life, by Peter Singer. I just finished reading Writings on an Ethical Life. First, it is important to say that in my view [.] a human being. Doesn't have value simply in virtue of belonging to the species Homo Sapiens. Life and not merely a biological. Life A person has a lot more to lose when his or her life is ended than a...
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Resistance is futile: August 2014
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My blog on Italian POWs in Australia. I use this blog as a soap box to preach (ahem. to talk :-) about subjects that interest me. Sunday, August 17, 2014. The book lives on. When I finally bought an iPad, I was looking forward to reading a lot of books that were no longer in print. I warmed at the idea that one day I could take with me all the books I had ever read. One of my favourite), Not good enough, dammit, not good enough! And yet, as Sherman Young convincingly affirms in his book The book is dead.
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Prigionieri di guerra italiani in Australia: Perche` i prigionieri dovettero lavorare
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Prigionieri di guerra italiani in Australia. Questa e` la traduzione italiana di http:/ www.ItalianPOW.info. This blog in English. I miei libri (in inglese). Il mio altro blog (in inglese). Di piu` riguardo me (in inglese). Venerdì, febbraio 22, 2013. Perche` i prigionieri dovettero lavorare. Ho trovato un articolo negli Archivi Nazionali Australiani che vorrei condividere. Ne ho ritagliate alcune parti. Se lo vuoi leggere nella sua interezza vai alla pagina diricerca degli Archivi. La richiesta di prigi...
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Italian POWs in Australia: Why the Italian POWs were not freed at once
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Why the Italian POWs were not freed at once. As soon as Italy signed the armistice, the Australians asked for more Italian POWs to put them to work. They transferred from India as many as they could. I just discovered that in October/November 1943, the Americans told the British that, as Italy was a cobelligerent, the Italian soldiers captured while Italy was allied with Germany should no longer be considered POWs. I can’t help it but speculate th...
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Italian POWs in Australia: Number of Returning POWs
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Italian POWs in Australia. Questo blog in italiano. Number of Returning POWs. I finally managed to compare the list of 18,420 Italian POWs with the list of 203,813 people who arrived in Australia via Fremantle (WA) or transited there on their way to one of the Eastern ports. I found 554 entries with matching family and given names. I had actually expected a higher number of matches. Desmond O’Connor. Which you can read online. Or download in PDF format. The CLT, for those who are not familiar with it, st...
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Resistance is futile: Books: Faster, by James Gleick
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My blog on Italian POWs in Australia. I use this blog as a soap box to preach (ahem. to talk :-) about subjects that interest me. Sunday, April 13, 2014. Books: Faster, by James Gleick. I have decided that sometimes I should also recommend books, not just criticise the books I don't like. Here is the first one. Let's see how it goes. The book is Faster. By James Gleick, the well known author of Chaos. I picked up a copy of the book in a reminders' bookshop and it was a very good buy. An edge could consis...
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Resistance is futile: How to avoid accumulating unread books
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My blog on Italian POWs in Australia. I use this blog as a soap box to preach (ahem. to talk :-) about subjects that interest me. Sunday, August 17, 2014. How to avoid accumulating unread books. I only buy books that I am pretty confident I will read (it wasn't always like that! But I can always decide that I am not going to read some of the books I already have. ;-). The article on The book is dead. By Sherman Young, will be next. October 13, 2014 at 2:54 AM. Laura C. Hirt. July 27, 2016 at 6:35 PM.
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Resistance is futile: A World of Exibitionists and Voyeurs
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My blog on Italian POWs in Australia. I use this blog as a soap box to preach (ahem. to talk :-) about subjects that interest me. Monday, July 28, 2014. A World of Exibitionists and Voyeurs. On 2014-07-25, the Los Angeles Times reported "Google reportedly finalizes deal for live stream service Twitch". In case you don't know, Twitch Interactive offers live streaming of people playing video games. And those containing micro-fiction (e.g., Being a Toad. OO - UML Structure Diagrams. Humans are social animal...
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Resistance is futile: Books: Writings on an Ethical Life, by Peter Singer
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My blog on Italian POWs in Australia. I use this blog as a soap box to preach (ahem. to talk :-) about subjects that interest me. Sunday, June 22, 2014. Books: Writings on an Ethical Life, by Peter Singer. I just finished reading Writings on an Ethical Life. First, it is important to say that in my view [.] a human being. Doesn't have value simply in virtue of belonging to the species Homo Sapiens. Life and not merely a biological. Life A person has a lot more to lose when his or her life is ended than a...