Paul @InfVeteran

Former British Soldier 🇬🇧 Likes History, The 80’s, Cold War. Patriotic. Not Woke. Not PC. @jk_rowling fan. No Man’s Land Joined April 2015

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J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt

4 hours ago

79 years ago today, legendary Army Ranger William Darby is killed in action in Torbole, Italy….So close to the end of war. - Combat Infantry Badge 🪖 - 2 DSCs 🇺🇸 - Silver Star ⭐️ - Legion of Merit 📜 - Bronze Star 🎖️ - 3 Purple Hearts 💜

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Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

13 hours ago

30 April 1952. An English translation of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was published in the UK. It documents her life in hiding in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944 and became a worldwide best seller.

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Captain Brent 🇬🇧 @Birdseed501

14 hours ago

After yesterday’s Comet, a BOAC Boeing 707 start & taxi out (1963). Can’t see if they got a salute this time but F/O reports a hand signal that they’re clear to taxi. The sharp-eyed will notice the aircraft used in the shot where the chocks are removed is G-APFE…

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Jamais Vu 🏉 @ScottBoot15

5 hours ago

“Taxpayer to fork out £85bn to cover Bank of England losses” If anyone still believes, “oh but it was Liz Truss” I’ve a bridge for sale 🤦🏻‍♂️ BoE is a complete cluster fuck. Open your eyes folks - you’re being royally shafted at every single juncture. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

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Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

13 hours ago

30 April 2008. The skeletal remains of 2 of the children of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra (Alexei and Anastasia), were found buried in Yekaterinburg, Russia. They had been executed in 1918 on the orders of the Soviet government.

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Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

13 hours ago

30 April 1945. Joseph Goebbels became German Chancellor, in accordance with Hitler’s Last Will and Testament. He served for just 1 day. He had been Propaganda Minister of Germany since 1933, and kept a diary, which remains a key source for historians of the Third Reich.

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Dr Victoria L. Humphreys @drtorhumphreys

11 hours ago

A visit to Fort Breendonk, the Gestapo concentration camp in Belgium, with @sommecourt & @Allen1Mark. The threat of being taken to Breendonk was the first stick with which Belgian partisans were beaten. At Breendonk, they were told, you will talk. 3500 men suffered here. #WW2

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Fascinating @fasc1nate

a day ago

For most of his life, Sheriff Buford Pusser dedicated himself to public service. His life took a tragic turn on Aug. 12, 1967, when his wife, Pauline, joined him on a routine investigation of a roadside disturbance. In a sudden and shocking attack, their car was ambushed, and…

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Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

13 hours ago

30 April 1945. Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (aged 56), committed suicide in his Berlin bunker, along with his wife, Eva Braun (aged 33). Since mid-January 1945, Hitler retreated to his underground bunker underneath the Reich Chancellery, as Germany headed towards military defeat.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen

14 hours ago

A documentary of this B-17 crew was made by Major William Wyler in 1943. His daughter Catherine Wyler co-produced a fictionalised version, Memphis Belle, in 1990. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Pippa Ettore @pettore

2 days ago

Born this day 29th. April 1917. PO. Johannes Roelof Stephanus Oelofse. South African One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/Oelofse… He was shot down in his Hurricane and killed in combat off the Isle of Wight. His body washed ashore a month later. Age 23.

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

a day ago

This enormous dragon kite in flight

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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3

a day ago

Neodymium glass (also known as Alexandrite glass), changes colour according to different lighting conditions, here you can see it’s quite dramatic

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The Rifles @RiflesRegiment

2 days ago

Well done to all Riflemen for successfully completing SCBC and PCBC.

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Doug @colour_history

2 days ago

Machine Gun Corps during a training exercise on the Western Front in France. Photographer - Ernest Brooks National Library of Scotland

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Pippa Ettore @pettore

2 days ago

Born this day 29th. April 1917. FL.Lt. James Brindley Eric Nicolson. VC. One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/Nicolso… …personality &appearance 'dark, unruly hair', bit dishevelled', 'a self confessed expert on pretty well everything', 'an endless talker & mimic'.

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Pippa Ettore @pettore

2 days ago

Born this day 29th. April 1917. Sgt. Peter Alan Dale. One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/Dale.htm Killed age 24 when his Beaufighter hit some trees coming in to land at Coltishall. Buried at Scottow Cemetery, Norfolk.

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Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957

3 days ago

28 April 1945. Hitler ordered the arrest of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, after hearing he had been attempting to negotiate the German surrender to the western Allies via the Swedish diplomat, Count Folke Bernadotte. Himmler had been a key figure in the planning of the Holocaust.

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Pippa Ettore @pettore

2 days ago

Born this day 29th. April 1918. PO. Kenneth Maltby Carver. One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/CarverK… Awarded the DFC. He survived the War.

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bender871 🏳️‍🌈 @Empiricist871

2 days ago

The video gives this brilliantly circular definition of gender: "gender - how you feel and who you know yourself to be tells you who you are." And even though gender is "who you are", there are "a whole bunch of possibilities!" and "figuring out what feels right for you is just…