If the parachute fabric in question was silk, their actions were totally justified.

They were prized to make wedding dresses from

The world would have changed beyond all recognition in those 70 years. 

The British record is the 55 years 4 months served by child-killer John Straffen from 1951 until his death in 2007. He killed two girls in 1951 and was sent to an asylum without a trial aged 21. But he escaped in 1952 and murdered a third girl before being recaptured. He died at the age of 77. 

The world would have changed beyond all recognition in those 70 years. 

The British record is the 55 years 4 months served by child-killer John Straffen from 1951 until his death in 2007. He killed two girls in 1951 and was sent to an asylum without a trial aged 21. But he escaped in 1952 and murdered a third girl before being recaptured. He died at the age of 77. 

Sent to an asylum without trial? So he was deemed crazy without a trial? Please advise. 

Perhaps the "sentence" was determined in pre-trial hearings where he was deemed unable to tell the difference between right and wrong as well as being unable to assist in his own defense.

Could be Shula, it was "without trial" that piqued my interest. I have had a case where the verdict was not guilty due to insanity. The perp went to an asylum until deemed sane & then to Attica for the remainder of his sentence. He just got out several years ago. 

Guilty but insane in 1951, he was deemed unfit to plead and sent to Broadmoor, the UK's top asylum for the dangerously insane. However after his escape and recapture he was tried for the murder committed whilst on the run and convicted, so somewhere along the line they decided he had become sane and therefore spent the remainder of his life in a series of conventional prisons, which sounds very odd to me. 

It was only of use years ago to escape the hangman, these days you'll be locked away regardless, but in an asylum for the criminally insane which is probably a worse fate than going to a conventional prison. 

Very interesting.  I was not aware that Canadians have rhythm.

Only the white girls don't Shula.

If the parachute fabric in question was silk, their actions were totally justified.

Most of the silk came from Japan so they couldn't get any during the second war. They ended up switching to a nylon fabric. I had an aunt that made parachutes during the second war in Toronto. After the war they switched to making all kinds of different threats.

Most senior Brits go by this way. Not by choice of theirs, but by choice by their Doctors. America and Canada are no different. If they think you are past the point of no return them you are given morphine in larger doses and pass quietly in the night.

It's what Trump will plead next to try and get himself out of hot water. We all already know he nuts, so a plea of insanity would be hard to disprove.

It's what Trump will plead next to try and get himself out of hot water. We all already know he nuts, so a plea of insanity would be hard to disprove.

For the most part an insanity plea is hard to get. The prosecution brings in experts to say the defendant is sane & knew what he was doing, & the defense brings in other experts to say he is not. To get a guilty verdict you must prove knowledge & intent. 

Most senior Brits go by this way. Not by choice of theirs, but by choice by their Doctors. America and Canada are no different. If they think you are past the point of no return them you are given morphine in larger doses and pass quietly in the night.

We had our own silk industry, in fact our own silk town….. Macclesfield.

Leek in Staffordshire was also a silk town, but to a lesser extent.

Leek in Staffordshire was also a silk town, but to a lesser extent.

Leek is an onion like vegetable which grows wild in my area. 

We're experiencing a cold snap over here. In previous years this would be normal, but after a last winter was relatively mild and a mild start to this winter it feels perishingly cold. Plus the TV and Press are billing it as a near apocalypse. 

I'll put money on all those who said in the summer they weren't going to put the heating on in the winter due to the cost will have rapidly dropped that pledge this week.

Where I am it's forecast to be about -3C overnight and no more than 3c during the day, it all began on Wednesday and is thought to continue for a week or more at least. 

To be strictly accurate it wasn't Charles Edward Stuart they wanted to place on the Throne in 1740 but his father James (Francis) Edward Stuart, the son of the deposed King James II. Charles only became the Stuart claimant upon his father's death in 1766. 

Quite a few poems and songs etc from that age have their origins in the Jacobite movement.

To be strictly accurate it wasn't Charles Edward Stuart they wanted to place on the Throne in 1740 but his father James (Francis) Edward Stuart, the son of the deposed King James II. Charles only became the Stuart claimant upon his father's death in 1766. 

Quite a few poems and songs etc from that age have their origins in the Jacobite movement.

I have never been known for being strictly accurate, Mark. See somewhat accurate. 

Silent Night - Born of War & Climate Change

In the fall of 1816, a young parish priest named Joseph Mohr was in a parish in a small alpine village of Austria. He composed a set of six poetic verses that became the Christmas carol Silent Night. Mohr composed the verses to reassure his poverty-stricken & hungry congregation that God & Jesus still loved them. The Napoleonic Wars left Austria devastated & a year earlier the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia had unleashed tons of ash in the atmosphere causing climate change in Europe called "the year without summer causing crop failures & widespread famine. Mohr set to verse a need for calmness in this chaos. "Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin, mother & child. Holy infant, so tender & mild. Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace."