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Contentseducating towards a better future101An interesting discovery occurred during the excavation, which could have causedtrouble, but was resolved very amiably.As the ship foundered it was abandoned by the crew, but the Swift’s cook and twomarines drowned. The cook’s body was recovered and buried, but the bodies of thetwo marines, 21-year-old Robert Rusker and 23-year-old John Ballard, were not recovered.In 2005, divers working under the direction of Dr Dolores Elkin discovereda foot bone in a shoe near the captain’s cabin in the wreck. Upon discovering it, theystopped work and contacted the British Defence Attaché in Buenos Aires. They receivedpermission to continue looking and recovered a complete skeleton. Subsequenttests determined that the remains belonged to a right-handed man, 5’6” tall and approximately25 years of age. Using surprisingly complete and detailed Royal Navyrecords, attempts were made to trace the descendants of the man using DNA, butthese attempts were unsuccessful.On 2 March 2007, the remains were interred by the British and Argentineans in theWar Graves section of Chacarita Cemetery in a grave simply marked ‘an unknownprivate marine, HMS Swift, 13 March 1770’.For more information:www.interpatagonia.com/paseos/museo-mario-brozoski/index_i.htmlViolence and especially war is a horrible way to expresspeople’s anger.Victoria, Austria, 13Aggression and violence preventionBuilding block:We help children to reflect on their own aggressive and violent impulses. We teachthem how to use the strength found in anger in a constructive way. We teach themto be resilient, all the while respecting others.Anger is a normal human emotion, often expressed by positive or negative aggressivebehaviour. Everyone needs a bit of aggression in order to cope in society. Aggression