Monday, May 4, 2015

Why Silver is More Valuable than Gold

With gold selling for around 50 times the price of silver, you may be perplexed to hear me say that silver is more valuable than gold. It seems like an obvious contradiction. What I mean, exactly, is that silver has heavy demand by industry, while gold has limited demand, other than for jewelry. In terms of its necessity to a modern society, silver has the highest value and the greatest utility. An ounce of silver has more value to industries that must have it than does an ounce of gold. An opportunity exists because the current price doesn't reflect this fact.
For 60 years more silver has been consumed by industry than produced. That's the most bullish circumstance possible for a commodity. Silver is in much greater demand by industrial users worldwide than is gold. Yet gold sells for fifty times the price of silver.
For the past 60 years silver was dumped onto the market without much regard to price. The U.S. Government sold off inventory of five billion ounces. This silver has been used up by industry and is gone forever. A few years ago the U.S. Mint announced they would have to buy silver on the open market.
That's only part of the story. You may be shocked to learn that there's more gold around than silver. About five times more gold is documented in above-ground supplies than silver. Furthermore, there are less years of silver production remaining underground to be mined than gold. These powerful facts are not currently reflected in the price. However, some day they will be. That's why the opportunity for profit exists in silver like no other opportunity in history. Nothing in the world has the potential to multiply your net worth like silver.
IN DEMAND
Today, world silver inventories are at the lowest point in 200 years. All the known and recorded silver in commodity warehouses, and elsewhere, only comes to 250 million ounces, and most of that is tied up and unavailable. Industry requires over 900 million ounces each year. Mining and recycling fall short of providing the necessary silver.
Silver is the best conductor of electricity. Every computer, server, monitor, cell phone and switch must have silver. Lasers, satellites, high-tech weaponry and robotics, all require silver. Digital technology and telecommunications need silver. Around the house there's silver in every TV, washing machine, wall switch and refrigerator. Conductors, switches, contracts and fuses use silver because it does not corrode or cause overheating and fires. Silver is used heavily in photography and in prints. Meanwhile, new and exotic uses for silver are expanding.
A new double layer of silver on glass is sweeping the window market, as it reflects away almost 95% of the hot rays of the sun. A new electronic application for "smart tags" that are replacing bar codes could use significant quantities of silver.
Silver achieves the most brilliant polish of any metal and is the best reflector of light, allowing it to be used in mirrors and in coatings for glass, cellophane or metals. Chemical reactions can be significantly increased by adding silver. Approximately 700 tons of silver are in continuous use in the world's chemical industry for the production of plastics.
Batteries are now manufactured with silver alloys. Lead-free silver solder is used heavily for joining materials and producing leak-tight joints. Silver is also widely used in silk-screened circuit paths, membrane switches, electrically heated automobile windows, and adhesives. Silver has a variety of uses in pharmaceuticals. Silver sulfadiazine is the most powerful compound for burn treatment. Catheters impregnated with silver eliminate bacteria. Silver is increasingly being tapped for its bactericidal properties and water purification. In the face of all these industrial uses there is less silver available.
Here we have a vital material, known to all men for all time, literally disappearing before our eyes, both above and below ground. It is a material upon which modern life and rising standards of living are dependent. It is beyond indispensable, it is a miracle metal.
SILVER BUBBLE
The stock bubble and the real estate bubble better move over, because I'm going to tell you about a bubble that will be talked about for as long as mankind exists; the silver bubble. At the epicenter of reasons for launching silver to the heavens is the coming end of artificially depressed silver prices. There is no legitimate free market explanation for such extremely depressed prices in the face of greater demand and depleted world inventories.
For 20 years, there has been an outsized silver short position on New York's Commodity Exchange, Inc. (COMEX). This paper short position has been unique, in that no other commodity has ever before had a short position larger than its world production and world known inventories. This accounts for why silver has been depressed in price. But shorting is a two way street. While the shorts have had their way with the price of silver for a long time, when those shorts are brought back or covered, the price effect of shorting is reversed and it becomes bullish.
You can't keep the price of anything artificially depressed for decades and not expect violent counter moves when the artificial restraint is suddenly removed. So it is logical to assume that, when the silver price suppression ends, we will get a severe jolt to the upside. Silver must move to a price point where supply and demand balance. Considering how long silver has been kept depressed, it will take an extremely high price to accomplish this balance. It is very possible that, in the inevitable move to a market equilibrium price, we could overshoot dramatically to the upside. A short covering panic appears unavoidable at some point, because of the large size of the short position. That could create triple digit silver all by itself. Silver is a prime candidate for a future price explosion that is historic and worldwide in scope. The fundamentals of silver are so bullish and so compelling that I couldn't make them up if I tried.
INDUSTRIAL USER PANIC
The amount of silver used in each industrial application, while vital to the finished item, is a tiny percentage of the product's total cost. This means industrial users will not readily substitute other materials for silver in a price rise. If the price of silver jumps significantly, they will be more inclined to build inventories.
When the inevitable silver shortage hits, it will be only a matter of time before industrial users try to protect themselves from delays and price increases. They will attempt to build inventories of silver. You don't risk the shutdown of an assembly line for want of a single, low-cost component.
As industrial users try to immunize themselves from assembly line shutdowns, extraordinary demand will make the supply tighter.
This is how panics occur. The price of palladium rose to over $1,100 an ounce because industrial users panicked and built inventories. Silver is used in many more applications than palladium. That increases the chance that silver users will panic and try to build inventories. If a panic does develop, there is only one known cure - it must burn itself out at extremely high prices.
ANOTHER BOMBSHELL
There are many forms of paper silver where the real silver does not exist, including pool accounts, leveraged accounts and bank silver certificates.
These accounts offer cheaper commissions and storage fees (since there is no real silver backing). I would estimate that there is well over a billion ounces of silver held in this form, perhaps by Swiss banks alone.

The issuers have use of "free" money, which is highly profitable to them as long as silver doesn't move up in price. But when silver moves up decisively, the issuers are, in essence, holding a short position. This is just another one of the many unique reasons for a historical blow off in the price of silver. At some point, with a high enough price of silver, the issuers can panic and try to limit losses. The only way to limit their losses is to buy silver. The net effect of the cumulative short positions in silver amount to a hydrogen bomb, on top of an atomic bomb, on top of a neutron bomb.

UN panel verdict allows India access to Hariabhanga gas reserves, Dhaka gets 20 K sqkm EEZ

A historic development has taken place a few days ago regarding the 40-year-old India-Bangladesh maritime dispute, reported from the judicial precincts of The Hague in the Netherlands, which has not been as intensely reported and commented upon in Indian media as it deserved.
On 7 July a United Nations Tribunal awarded nearly four-fifth of the maritime territory to Bangladesh giving that country control of almost 20,000 square kilometers of the disputed area that expands to 25,000 square kilometers in the Bay of Bengal.
This is the second successive diplomatic victory for Bangladesh over its maritime concerns as in 2012 the UN tribunal had resolved the issue after Bangladesh had taken a similar matter with Myanmar to the tribunal.
Hariabhanga bonhomie. AFP
Hariabhanga bonhomie. AFP
For India too it is a matter of satisfaction and also a diplomatic victory for several reasons. One, the United Nations' Permanent Court of Arbitration in Hague acknowledged India's sovereignty over New Moore Island and grants India concomitant access to the Hariabhanga river.
The disputed region was near the mouth of the Hariabhanga river, an area of huge strategic importance for India in the coming decades. In 2006, India had discovered 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in a creek about 50km to the south of the mouth of the Hariabhanga within the contested region. The Hariabhanga gas reserves are estimated to be almost twice what the entire Krishna-Godavari basin holds.
New Moore Island (called South Talpatti in Bangladesh) has been claimed by both India and Bangladesh ever since it came into being in Bay of Bengal following a cyclone in 1970. The uninhabited island disappeared in March 2010 due to climate change-related issues. Nonetheless, the UN tribunal’s acknowledgment of the Indian sovereignty in the area hands over considerable strategic leverage to India. That is because the region is said to be rich in oil and natural gas reserves. Now India can legally explore and exploit the natural resources in this area.
The second reason is equally important for India. While it is true that Bangladesh has ‘gained’ close to twenty thousand square kilometers in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), India has reasons to be happy as the award has split the area in question in favour of India which is significantly closer to India’s claim than to that of Bangladesh.
Thirdly, this is good news for millions of Indian fishermen in West Bengal and Odisha as well as Bangladeshi fishermen as the settlement opens up miles of unchallenged open sea that was not available to them in past four decades. This stretch of the sea has been used primarily for transit and both India and Bangladesh had been preventing each other from using it for any other purpose, particularly fishing. Fishermen from both sides would thus get a bounty at a time when fish near the coast had depleted considerably, forcing them to go further out to sea entailing more costs in terms of money and time.
Over and above these reasons there is a huge diplomatic take-away for both India and Bangladesh from the historic UN tribunal award.
The closure of this long-pending dispute, wherein both the sides fell short of their expectations and yet got many things to cheer about, paves the way for a more intense bilateral cooperation. It is a win-win situation for both the sides as articulated by their foreign ministries.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali described the tribunal's award as a "victory for both countries…and a win-win situation for the peoples of Bangladesh and India". Ali took care to laud India’s role in this episode at a press conference in Dhaka, saying thus: "We commend India for its willingness to resolve this matter peacefully by legal means and for its acceptance of the tribunal's judgment."
India too welcomed the development and MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin remarked: "The settlement of the maritime boundary will further enhance mutual understanding and goodwill between India and Bangladesh by bringing to closure a long-pending issue. This paves the way for the economic development of this part of the Bay of Bengal, which will be beneficial to both countries."
Now that both the sides have made substantial gains and ended a major bilateral dispute as per the international law, it should spur them on to go for an amicable settlement of two other major pending issues: land boundary agreement and Teesta water sharing.

Gone: sea larger than Bengal UN tribunal awards Dhaka marine chunk



New Delhi, July 8: India has lost to Bangladesh a swathe of sea larger than the area of Bengal in a landmark ruling by a UN tribunal after decades of tug-of-war rooted in the Partition of 1947.
The UN’s Permanent Court of Arbitration has awarded Bangladesh 106,613sqkm of a total of 172, 220sqkm that according to New Delhi was under dispute but should belong to India. The award prompted a dissenting signature from New Delhi’s representative on the tribunal but the emissary was outvoted.
The ruling at The Hague settles a maritime boundary India has haggled over with Pakistan from 1947 to 1971, and then with Bangladesh.
Officially, both nations welcomed the settlement.
“We respect the verdict of the tribunal and are in the process of studying the award and its full implications,” Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said today. He addedd that the settlement would “enhance mutual understanding and goodwill” by bringing to a closure “a long-pending issue.”
The verdict denies Indian fishermen access to the part of the sea lost to Bangladesh. It also means India cannot tap natural gas and oil reserves predicted in that region by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
The contentions used by the five-member bench that heard the case have also upset Indian negotiators, apart from leaving sections of the foreign policy establishment worried about opposition from state governments on the eastern coast.
“This is very honestly a ruling that is not good for India,” a senior Indian official involved in the negotiations told The Telegraph. “The award of the area to Bangladesh is irrational in our view, and the arguments used to justify the decision quite frankly border on the absurd.”
The ruling was delivered to the governments of India and Bangladesh on Monday, with the strict orders that it could not be made public for another day. Today, the court published its 168-page verdict online, allowing the two governments to discuss the ruling publicly.
The dispute involves the demarcation of a maritime boundary between India and Bangladesh, which was East Pakistan before its independence in 1971.
Delineating the boundary was important because it defines both the sovereign maritime territory of each of the two neighbours — extending 12 nautical miles off the coast — and an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) that continues till 200 nautical miles into the sea.
Although a nation does not have territorial sovereignty over the EEZ — ships from other countries can enter those waters freely — that particular country alone can exploit the zone for economic gains. In the Bay of Bengal, India’s state-owned ONGC has been exploring for oil and gas since 2005.
After multiple rounds of unsuccessful negotiations, the government of current Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina approached the UN arbitration court in 2009.
India agreed to join the tribunal’s proceedings and nominated Pemmaraja Srinivasa Rao as its member to the five-judge bench hearing the case. Bangladesh’s nominee on the panel was Ghana’s Thomas A. Mensah. German international law veteran Rudiger Wolfrum headed the bench.
New Delhi’s arguments were made, among others, by the then attorney general, G.E. Vahanvati.
India insisted that only the area just south of Bangladesh and Bengal ought to be considered while demarcating the maritime boundary. This area amounted to 172,220sqkm — just under twice Bengal’s area of 88,752sqkm.
But Bangladesh demanded that parts of the sea close to the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh border, too, must be considered as disputed territory.
The UN bench not only agreed to Bangladesh’s demand but added even more area, defining the disputed region as a whopping 406,833sqkm — around the combined area of Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Assam.
This definition extended the dispute to coastal waters running all the way down Odisha’s coast till Sandy Point near Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Rao dissented, but was outvoted 4-to-1, the verdict report shows.
India then won a small battle against Bangladesh in the hearings — convincing the bench to accept a point on the map in the shallow seas just south of the Sunderbans that New Delhi insisted should mark the start of the boundary delineation. This victory allowed India to win a tiny island known as New Moore or South Talpatti that some satellite images suggest may have drowned in recent years.
But New Delhi soon lost a bigger battle, over the geographic method the arbitration court would use to mark out the boundary.
Dhaka had suggested that the judges take a compass and pencil, and mark the maritime boundary by dividing the angle created by the abutting Indian and Bangladesh coasts equally.
In effect, this “180-degree principle” meant drawing a straight line down from the starting point of the demarcation, to a point where both nations accept that their EEZ ends.
India contended that the equal-angle principle could not be adopted because curves further down its neighbour’s coast would effectively give Bangladesh greater sea territory than was fair.
India suggested an “equidistant-line” principle, under which the boundary marker at each point in the sea would be the spot equidistant from the nearest point on the Indian and Bangladesh coasts. This line, unlike the one proposed by Bangladesh, would twist and turn with the curves on the two coasts.
The arbitration tribunal initially accepted India’s equidistant principle but applied it only to the part of the sea very close to the coast. For the rest of the disputed area, it tweaked Bangladesh’s suggestion, only tilting the straight boundary line Bangladesh had proposed slightly to the east, at an angle of 177 degrees — or three degrees from the vertical.
The maritime boundary defined by the UN court justified its order by calculating the ratio of the total areas it awarded to India and Bangladesh.
But the ratio — India was awarded 300,220sqkm of the area, almost thrice Bangladesh’s 106,613sqkm — is misleading, according to Indian officials. They said the maritime territory demarcated to New Delhi included a large chunk along its eastern seaboard that was never really under dispute.
For Bangladesh, the victory is the second of its kind in quick succession — it won a UN arbitration battle against Myanmar in 2012, also over the demarcation of its maritime boundary with that nation.


List of the verified oldest men

This is a list of the 100 verified oldest men, arranged in descending order of each individual's age in years and days. A year typically refers to a calendar year, the time between two dates with the same name. However, years may be of different lengths due to the presence or absence of a leap day within the year, or to the conversion of dates from one calendar to another. A supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group.
The oldest man ever, whose age has been verified, is Jiroemon Kimura, a Japanese man who died on 12 June 2013 at the age of 116 years, 54 days. There are twoverified living supercentenarians on this list, both of whom live in Japan, the older of whom is Sakari Momoi, age 112 years, 87 days.

100 verified oldest men

      Deceased       Living
RankNameBirth dateDeath dateAge (at death,
or as of 3 May 2015)
Place of death
or residence
1Jiroemon Kimura19 April 189712 June 2013116 years, 54 daysJapan
2Christian Mortensen16 August 188225 April 1998115 years, 252 daysUnited States[a]
3Emiliano Mercado del Toro21 August 189124 January 2007115 years, 156 daysPuerto Rico
4Mathew Beard9 July 187016 February 1985114 years, 222 daysUnited States
5Walter Breuning21 September 189614 April 2011114 years, 205 daysUnited States
6Yukichi Chuganji23 March 188928 September 2003114 years, 189 daysJapan
7Joan Riudavets15 December 18895 March 2004114 years, 81 daysSpain
8Fred Hale1 December 189019 November 2004113 years, 354 daysUnited States
9Johnson Parks15 October 188417 July 1998113 years, 275 daysUnited States
10Tomoji Tanabe18 September 189519 June 2009113 years, 274 daysJapan
11John Ingram McMorran19 June 188924 February 2003113 years, 250 daysUnited States
12Frederick Frazier27 January 188014 June 1993113 years, 138 daysUnited States
13James Sisnett22 February 190023 May 2013113 years, 90 daysBarbados[b]
14Walter Richardson7 November 188525 December 1998113 years, 48 daysUnited States
15Henry Allingham6 June 189618 July 2009113 years, 42 daysUnited Kingdom
16Antonio Todde22 January 18893 January 2002112 years, 346 daysItaly
17Moses Hardy6 January 18947 December 2006112 years, 335 daysUnited States
18John Evans19 August 187710 June 1990112 years, 295 daysUnited Kingdom
19George Francis6 June 189627 December 2008112 years, 204 daysUnited States
20Denzo Ishizaki20 October 188629 April 1999112 years, 191 daysJapan
21Josep Armengol23 July 188120 January 1994112 years, 181 daysSpain
22Giovanni Frau29 December 189019 June 2003112 years, 172 daysItaly
23John Painter20 September 18881 March 2001112 years, 162 daysUnited States
24Alphaeus Philemon Cole12 July 187625 November 1988112 years, 136 daysUnited States
25Augusto Moreira6 October 189613 February 2009112 years, 130 daysPortugal
26George Johnson1 May 189430 August 2006112 years, 121 daysUnited States
27Salustiano Sanchez8 June 190113 September 2013112 years, 97 daysUnited States[c]
28Sakari Momoi[1]5 February 1903Living[1]112 years, 87 daysJapan
29Gengan Tonaki30 October 188424 January 1997112 years, 86 daysJapan
30Yasutaro Koide[1]13 March 1903Living[1]112 years, 51 daysJapan
31Tadanosuke Hashimoto27 April 189131 May 2003112 years, 34 daysJapan
32Kumekichi Tani20 April 189112 May 2003112 years, 22 daysJapan
33James Wiggins15 October 187916 October 1991112 years, 1 dayUnited States
34Arturo Licata2 May 190224 April 2014111 years, 357 daysItaly
35Walter H. Seward13 October 189614 September 2008111 years, 337 daysUnited States
36Maurice Floquet25 December 189410 November 2006111 years, 320 daysFrance
37James McCoubrey13 September 19015 July 2013111 years, 295 daysUnited States[d]
38John Mosely Turner15 June 185621 March 1968111 years, 280 daysUnited Kingdom
39Hermann Dörnemann27 May 18932 March 2005111 years, 279 daysGermany
40Antonio Urrea18 February 188815 November 1999111 years, 270 daysSpain
41Arthur Carter5 October 188911 June 2001111 years, 249 daysUnited States
42Jan Machiel Reyskens11 May 18787 January 1990111 years, 241 daysNetherlands[e]
43Joe Thomas1 May 187514 December 1986111 years, 227 daysUnited States
44James Zackry15 August 188114 March 1993111 years, 211 daysUnited States
45Tanekichi Onishi15 February 190011 September 2011111 years, 208 daysJapan
46Kiyoshi Igarashi2 August 189723 February 2009111 years, 205 daysJapan
47Herman Smith-Johannsen15 June 18755 January 1987111 years, 204 daysNorway
48Ernest Pusey5 May 189519 November 2006111 years, 198 daysUnited States
49Thomas Nelson, Sr.8 July 18959 January 2007111 years, 185 daysUnited States
50Jokichi Ikarashi26 January 190223 July 2013111 years, 178 daysJapan
51Earl Brush17 July 189310 January 2005111 years, 177 daysUnited States
52Antonio de Castro6 January 189822 June 2009111 years, 167 daysPortugal
53Sukesaburo Nakanishi15 March 189622 August 2007111 years, 160 daysJapan
54Luther Goding1 July 18845 December 1995111 years, 157 daysUnited States
55Jan Pieter Bos12 July 189115 December 2002111 years, 156 daysNetherlands
56Emile Fourcade29 July 188429 December 1995111 years, 153 daysFrance[f]
57Benjamin Harrison Holcomb3 July 18892 December 2000111 years, 152 daysUnited States
58Aarne Arvonen4 August 18971 January 2009111 years, 150 daysFinland
59George Frederick Ives17 November 188112 April 1993111 years, 146 daysCanada[g]
60Jan Goossenaerts30 October 190021 March 2012111 years, 143 daysBelgium
61Garland Adair30 July 189811 December 2009111 years, 134 daysUnited States
62Anders Engberg1 July 18926 November 2003111 years, 128 daysSweden
63Alexander Imich4 February 19038 June 2014111 years, 124 daysUnited States[h]
64Jack Lockett22 January 189125 May 2002111 years, 123 daysAustralia[i]
65Henry Hartmann14 July 189410 November 2005111 years, 119 daysUnited States
66Shelby Harris31 March 190125 July 2012111 years, 116 daysUnited States
67Daniel Guzmán-García6 February 189721 May 2008111 years, 105 daysColombia
68Sadayoshi Tanabe20 October 188818 January 2000111 years, 90 daysJapan
69Makaru Nakanishi15 December 190128 February 2013111 years, 75 daysJapan
70Henry Pfeiffer22 March 188123 May 1992111 years, 62 daysUnited States
71Zachariah Blackistone16 February 187118 April 1982111 years, 61 daysUnited States
72Antonio Baldo6 July 188728 August 1998111 years, 53 daysItaly
73Edward Bernard22 June 188911 August 2000111 years, 50 daysUnited States
74Francisco Fernández24 July 19017 September 2012111 years, 45 daysSpain
75Norio Kawada25 April 18926 June 2003111 years, 42 daysJapan
76Kama Nakasone23 November 18911 January 2003111 years, 39 daysJapan
77Harry Patch17 June 189825 July 2009111 years, 38 daysUnited Kingdom
78Peter Solum3 May 18825 June 1993111 years, 33 daysUnited States
79Masao Kaga1 June 190226 June 2013111 years, 25 daysJapan
80Giovanni Ligato18 February 19012 March 2012111 years, 13 daysItaly
81Domenico Minervino10 May 188022 May 1991111 years, 12 daysItaly
82Nijiro Tokuda10 June 189512 June 2006111 years, 2 daysJapan
83Valentino Stella2 January 18861 January 1997110 years, 365 daysItaly
84Giichi Okumura18 October 189613 October 2007110 years, 360 daysJapan
85Charles Shebanek9 September 188327 August 1994110 years, 352 daysUnited States
86Antonio Pierro22 February 18968 February 2007110 years, 351 daysUnited States[j]
87Carl Berner27 January 19027 January 2013110 years, 346 daysUnited States[k]
88Gregory Pandazes15 January 187322 December 1983110 years, 341 daysUnited States[l]
Eiju Tsuru4 February 187911 January 1990110 years, 341 daysJapan
90Charlie Nelson21 September 186720 August 1978110 years, 333 daysUnited States
Yoshio Nakagawa19 December 190116 November 2012110 years, 333 daysJapan
92Masatake Kinoshita20 August 189717 July 2008110 years, 332 daysJapan
93Linus Reinhart28 July 189214 June 2003110 years, 321 daysUnited States
94Lloyd Myers20 March 18921 February 2003110 years, 318 daysUnited States
95Frank Ahmann11 May 188922 March 2000110 years, 316 daysUnited States
96Leopold Vietoris4 June 18919 April 2002110 years, 309 daysAustria
97Takashi Hattori12 March 189812 January 2009110 years, 306 daysJapan
98Walter Wilcox1 November 187211 August 1983110 years, 283 daysUnited States
99Galo Leoz22 April 187923 January 1990110 years, 276 daysSpain
100A.L.M.[2]11 April 18791 January 1990110 years, 265 daysSpain
a^ Mortensen was born in Denmark.
b^ Sisnett was born in Barbados, which was at the time of his birth a British colony; now it is an independent country.
c^ Sanchez was born in Spain.
d^ McCoubrey was born in Newfoundland, which was then a separate British colony in 1901. It is now a part of Canada.
e^ Reyskens was born in Belgium.
f^ Fourcade was born in French Algeria; it is now Algeria.
g^ Ives was born in the United Kingdom.
h^ Imich was born in Częstochowa, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now in Poland.
i^ Lockett was born in the former British colony Victoria, which is now part of Australia.
j^ Pierro was born in Italy.
k^ Berner was born in Germany.
l^ Pandazes was born in Greece.

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