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What were sandbags used for?

sandbags were used to absorb the shock from bombs, projectiles and bullets. Also - Sandbags were used to increase the efective height of the trench walls by using the soil from the trench to fill the sand bags and then stacking the bags on the lip of the trench like building blocks. This reuced the physical effort of trench digging as you would only need to dig half the required depth and then build up the sanbags for the other half.<br><br>Small gaps would be left so that the enemy positions could be observed safely without being seen.<br>


How did laborers response to the great depression?

A million and a half labor workers took part in two thousand strikes that year.


How long did it take for Egyptians to perform the proses embalming?

For the Egyptians it diddnt take a half hour it took 70 days


How long did soldiers spend in a trench in WW1?

Gerald Kersh recounts the story of the old soldier who said: At the beginning of the War, they issued us with silly little folding spades, about nine inches long and six across. They set us to dig a trench, and we scraped away at the earth with those nasty little tools, and by the end of the day all the spades were bent and blunted, and we'd got down about a foot. Those spades were useless. But when we got across to France, and they marched us to the front, the Boche began shelling, and there was shrapnel all around, and we took our little useless shovels, and we just melted into the ground. In other words - it took as long as it took. The basic trench could be dug in a day; under fire, half a day. But over the next weeks and months, it would be improved, deepened, widened, revetted, supplied with dugouts, duckboards and firing step; a trench was never finished.


What proportion of holocaust victims were women?

About half were female. At the start most of the victims were male, as they were seen as a threat, later most were women and children as the men made better workers.