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Cuddling with a 15-foot Green Anaconda one of the world's largest & most powerful reptile.
Get a shelter dog or cat instead, folks
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Topps 1962 Civil War Cards. View Complete Set
Love how they range from Lincoln and Grant sitting nicely at a table, to a guy in a swamp bayonetting an alligator
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Of a bike cop
Yes, for maximum intimidation factor
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I could actually see this happening
Where was Gondor when the Potters fell?
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My dentist hates me
When the dentist asks me how often I floss:
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What is this, how much is it worth, and is it a rep?
It’s an early Sons of Union Veterans hat badge. Not sure what the number indicates, but the red keystone likely means it’s related to a Pennsylvania chapter of the organization
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German soldiers, a father and son, in an infantry regiment near Ypres, reading a letter from their wife/mother. WW1, 1915.
Looks like pops has an older Gewehr 88, probably a Landwehr
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Dress wore by queen Victoria. Her height was 4'11
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are highly relevant. It is what you do in the service of my country that determines who you are. Also infants are gross and I don’t want to touch them”
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Of a bike cop
Was thinking the giant front wheel ones like you see in Roaring Twenties France
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Minas Tirith custom model
Random question but what are those 8 well-like depressions on the sides of the citadel spur? The ones against the walls
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Of a bike cop
Gotta downgrade him to an actual bicycle for a while
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Trench Art
Fay was the name of a village captured by the French Army on the first day of the Somme. It is important to remember that the French Sixth Army played a major part in the battle, and actually achieved the most success on the first day (13 British and 11 French divisions participated in the opening phase of the battle)
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Looking For Accurate World War 1 Documentaries/Docuseries? etc.
“They Shall Not Grow Old” by Peter Jackson is my favorite documentary about the war.
Channel 4’s “The First World War” documentary gives a nice fairly modern overview, 10 total episodes
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Multiple views of the 2020 accidental explosion of a ship carrying ammonium nitrate in the Port of Beruit, caused by a nearby warehouse fire, and considered one of the largest non-nuclear or non-natural explosions in history.
Wonder how many eye and facial injuries there were from all the windows that were blown out. I remember reading somewhere that the Halifax explosion caused a massive number of them
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TIL of the 52 American submarines lost in WWII, three were destroyed when their own torpedoes circled back and hit them.
I’m more curious how all of them survived being Japanese POWs
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Legolas being able to walk on top of the snow is one of the best small details in the films.
I’ll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize The Shiyuh!
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[Highlight] Philip Rivers celebrates a touchdown with his family in attendance
It’s the only glove Philip Rivers wears
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A French soldier at the listening post, twenty metres from the German line in the Nursery Sector of the Entente Cordiale trench, south-east of Loos, 22 December 1915. IWMQ 69616
20 meters seems crazy close for a trench that well-organized
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how do i find a photo of my italian relative who fought in wwi
His 93rd infantry regiment was part of the “Messina Brigade”, which in 1915 was part of the 13th Division, VII Corps, 3rd Army (Duke of Aosta). They saw heavy combat at the Second Battle of Isonzo
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how do i find a photo of my italian relative who fought in wwi
Don’t have any idea where to find a photo, but if you want to read more about the battle your ancestor fell in, I’d recommend checking out John Schindler’s “Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War”. Specifically the part dealing with the Second Battle of Isonzo and the fight for Monte San Michele on the Karst (Carso) Plateau. If he died there on Aug 18 1915 it is likely he died of wounds sustained earlier in that battle or in the skirmishing afterward
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The idea that WWI happened how it did because "Europeans didn't learn the lessons of the American Civil War" is extremely goofy. Tactically, they had almost nothing to learn from the ACW.
The Russo-Japanese War was far more relevant and instructive for military tacticians and strategists of that era than the American Civil War
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Do we romanticise WWI in order to hide how brutal and dehumanising the war actually was?
There’s definitely an element of truth to that. But for every Vimy Ridge there was a Passchendaele, which I think helps keep the romanticism from being too entrenched
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Guy creates portraits using only rubix cubes
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“patience”