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Old 03-18-2007, 09:10 PM   #1
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"The Kim with three other steamers had been stopped by the British fleet in November 1914 because they were carrying nineteen million pounds of lard from New York to Copenhagen." Louis Guichard - The Naval Blockade, p.55.


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Old 03-18-2007, 09:21 PM   #2
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9500 tons of lard...

The average weight of an adult male is 189.9. That is 100,105 adult male weights of lard...
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"The Kim with three other steamers had been stopped by the British fleet in November 1914 because they were carrying nineteen million pounds of lard from New York to Copenhagen." Louis Guichard - The Naval Blockade, p.55.


Those Danes are their lard...
... The Danes are their own lard, how does that work?
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Old 03-18-2007, 09:35 PM   #4
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Well apparently they had a purpose to import 19,000,000 pounds of lard at one time...
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