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Captivi is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, written circa 200 BCE.The title has been translated as The Captives or The Prisoners, and the plot focuses on slavery and prisoners of war.
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS. [1] It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka).
Escape from Furnace is a series of five novels written by British author Alexander Gordon Smith. [1] The books are written from perspective of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer and describe his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary.
One of the earliest examples of penal military units was established, were written in the Chinese annals Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han.During the Han–Dayuan War, unhappy with the failure of General Li Guangli in an earlier expedition in 104 BC, Emperor Wu of Han promised amnesty and rewards to criminals, prisoners and bandits (赦囚徒捍寇盜) and dispatched a 60,000 ...
Keine Kameraden. Die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen, 1941–1945 [1] [2] (transl. No Comrades: The Wehrmacht and Soviet Prisoners of War, 1941–1945) is a book by German historian Christian Streit first published in 1978.
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Hundreds of prisoners are helping to battle the wildfires in the Los Angeles area.. Incarcerated firefighters earn $26.90 to $34 for each 24-hour shift. It's far below California's minimum wage of ...
Rachel Parker Plummer (March 22, 1819 – March 19, 1839) was the daughter of James W. Parker and the cousin of Quanah Parker, last free-roaming chief of the Comanches.An Anglo-Texan woman, she was kidnapped at the age of seventeen, along with her son, James Pratt Plummer, age two, and her cousins, by a Comanche raiding party.