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Exciting news - 'Waterloo: the Attack of I Corps' is now available as an e-book!
Read all about the first major attack of the battle - and why it ultimately failed - from your favourite e-reader!
Perfect to settle in and read in the long, cold nights in the run-up to Christmas
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09.12.2025 15:00 β π 14 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2Mijn moeder schrijft al decennialang brieven voor Amnesty om aan te dringen op vrijlating van politieke gevangenen. De keren dat ik het ook deed voelde ik me minder machteloos over het onrecht in de wereld. Aanrader!
09.12.2025 18:59 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Blij dat Historici.nl geΓ―nteresseerd was in mijn (oorspronkelijk in het Engels) reflecties over AI en het onderwijs in geschiedenis. Er is nu een Nederlandse versie beschikbaar.
(Met een dringende oproep om morgen mee te doen aan de staking op de Dam!π₯)
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While I agree it was a big mistake, and that they must have been overconfident to send awaytheir reserve, it probably had a politically sensible rationale. The same rationale by which Britain ended up in eg Yugoslavia and Greece, thinking they could prop up an ally.
08.12.2025 16:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Choo-choo goes to war
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They can brighten your day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Xm...
05.12.2025 16:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Uiteraard helemaal vrijblijvend, maar geef maar een seintje mocht je een recensie-exemplaar van O&O willen! ertsberg.be/boek/oproer-...
05.12.2025 10:00 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Grim. Scientifically illiterate, and the techniques they are selling will be largely ineffective anyway.
See my book, Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.
Om misverstanden vΓ³Γ³r te zijn:
Op 5 december is het geen #Sinterklaas maar Pakjesavond.
Op 6 december is Sint-Nikolaas niet jarig; het is zijn sterfdag.
Tot slot: voor alle verdere vragen is er de Nieuwe Catechismus.
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In the following pages, I try to answer what can essentially be boiled down to one simple question: how can a nation perpetrate atrocities yet retain the conceit that it is acting as a force for good in the world? An atrocity is not simply constituted by physical acts of violence but also by the way it is subsequently legitimized, covered up, or deliberately forgotten. When people think of themselves as the "good guys" regardless of the violence they inflict, there is ultimately no atrocity they are not willing to justify. Kim A. Wagner βMassacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of Historyβ
What weβre reading todayβ¦
04.12.2025 18:22 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Well that's not the Christmas special plot I was expecting, but it's bolder writing than usual, I'll give you that
04.12.2025 15:59 β π 25 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0Smuggled in throigh the Tardis!
04.12.2025 16:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This guy knows his boardgames and how to write about it. Check out his top 5 of 2025
04.12.2025 15:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tomorrow, my Patreons get my top five games of the year, plus a surprise bonus pick which is now less of a surprise and also included for rather dubious reasons. If you'd like the rundown, and an explanation of this tangled mysterious sixth pick, you can get on board here www.patreon.com/c/mattthr
04.12.2025 15:55 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
small gray gravestone with a winged skull in the tympanum, an hour glass on one finial and crossed bones on the other. No decorated borders. Here lyes ye body of Elizabeth Cutter wife to Richard Cutter aged about 42 years died March 5 1662
One of the earliest death dates on a gravestone in the Old Burying Ground in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA) is 1662, on a stone for Elizabeth Cutter.
Despite the early date, the stone is stylistically similar to stones from the 1680s, and was probably carved then (this is called "backdating").
New issue of Napoleonica (remember, it's OA), focussing on the logistics of Napoleon's campaigns
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I think I made my position quite clear 25 years ago when I instituted the Cyrus Award
02.12.2025 18:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The fighting at Cambrai was reaching a peak #OTD in 1917, especially around the village of Gouzeaucourt. Discovered more on the @oldfrontline.bsky.social Channel:
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It's much easier to do the unboxing or how-to-play videos and cash in. No opinions that people can disagree with or hurt publishers' feelings. And you can pose like a champion of the hobby and the industry!
01.12.2025 20:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Een recensie gebaseerd op 14 mensen die zeggen het boek gelezen te hebben
01.12.2025 16:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Blood Rage
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Heel ernstig:
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Goessche Courant
1886 β Aan een minnend paar onder Zaamslag, een
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Krantenbank Zeeland
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3x2' board in a picture frame. Add a bit of terrain, and it's done. Plans are to use it for: 6mm Beneath the Lily Banners, 6mm Midgard WOTR & 10mm Midgard Warhammer Fantasy... Plus any other silly ideas I have!
30.11.2025 16:05 β π 35 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0Vlaanderens Vetste rockband Triggerfinger in Leiden. Wat een genoegen!
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"Say 'the Son is not of the same substance as the Father' one more time. I dare you. I double dare you."
29.11.2025 11:18 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0Recently digitised - near Ismailia in Egypt in October 1940 French Spahis (North African light cavalry) exercise their horses for British War Office cameraman Gerald Massy-Collier. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2
Full film: IWM AYY 59-1/ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
