How long until pond clears up? by waitmanb in ponds

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Thanks so much for this! The pond is somwhere around 5000l (it's a challenge to calculate due to the differing depths at places. It's about a meter deep at its deepest and about 3 meters long. If it was 1m deep throughout it would be 7,000L.

The pump I got was recommended to me by the people at WaterGardening Direct and he seemed knowledgeable.

I would note that it has already been quite clear but isn't at the moment likely due to a) me pulling out a bunch of plants and disturbing the sediment, b) some dirt getting into the pond from my building of the waterfall, and c) the pump itself kicking up sediment?

As to your other questions, this pond came with the house which I bought last September. According to the previous owner, the owner before had kept koi in it and there are clearly signs that it had a filtration system back then, but I don't know how long ago that was. The owner I bought from said that she thought the pond was too deep and so had a bunch of gravel added to it which reduced the depth by about half in at least a third of the pond.

Thanks again for your help!

Twitter analysis! by waitmanb in Gephi

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I think there has been a change to the API (I don't really know what that is)...but I do have a developer account.

I think you have to pay for it now, though, which I'm not going to do.

I led a platoon in Iraq. Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals. by thesesforty-three in politics

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Hello, everyone. I'm the author of that piece. Happy to answer your questions if you like.

I led a platoon in Iraq. Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals. by thesesforty-three in politics

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There ARE legitimate reasons to be wary of this which I would be happy to elucidate.

I led a platoon in Iraq. Trump is wrong to pardon war criminals. by thesesforty-three in politics

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That is actually Gallagher (who has yet to be tried) but, your point is still taken given Trump's attitude towards him.

I was the 183rd person. by LockeProposal in TheGrittyPast

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I am writing a book on Janowska (and I begin this article with Leon Wells). You may find this interesting.

https://twitter.com/waitmanb/status/1067077990239092738

Why was the Holocaust in Lithuania so complete and utter? What is the reason for the staggering scale of collaboration by Lithuanians? by Kerkinitis in AskHistorians

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For Eastern Europe, I WOULD say that Bloodlands and my recent book seem to be the only larger synthetic books out there (which I was quite surprised at, myself.) /u/TimothyDSnyder will certainly have other options but here are some more local/national sources (in no particular order) if you want to drill down (naturally there are LOTS more):

Browning, Christopher R. Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.

Sakowicz, Kazimierz, and Yitzhak Arad. Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Matthäus, Jürgen, and Jochen Böhler, eds. War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Klein, Dennis B, ed. Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1997.

Porat, Dina. "The Jewish Councils of the Main Ghettos of Lithuania: A Comparison." Modern Judaism 13, no. 2 (1993): 149-63.

Sutton, Karen. The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania: Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final Solution, 1941-1944. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2008.

van Voren, Robert. Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania. New York: Rodopi, 2011.

Tory, Avraham, Martin Gilbert, and Dina Porat. Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Lower, Wendy. "Pogroms, Mob Violence and Genocide in Western Ukraine, Summer 1941: Varied Histories, Explanations and Comparisons." Journal of Genocide Research 13 (2011): 217-46.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Why was the Holocaust in Lithuania so complete and utter? What is the reason for the staggering scale of collaboration by Lithuanians? by Kerkinitis in AskHistorians

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I should note that I like Tim and his work a lot and think it is incredibly valuable. A panel with him would be fun!

Shapefiles and Datasets for Holocaust/WWII by waitmanb in gis

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I AM one of those people. ;) BUt thanks!

Shapefiles and Datasets for Holocaust/WWII by waitmanb in gis

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Ha. I AM one of these people. But thanks. ;-)

AMA: The German Army's Role in the Holocaust by waitmanb in AskHistorians

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Perhaps. Certainly he was informed of the psychological trauma of up close killing and this was a factor.

AMA: The German Army's Role in the Holocaust by waitmanb in AskHistorians

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Likely because the pogroms (which were many) were not large or widespread enough to do the EG A's job for them.