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It’s weird to think that one day all this will be a flat, rocky plateau. #DeepTime
Howling with laughter
Savoia! was a battle cry used in WW1. That definitely looks like the same medal. Thanks 🙏
Does anyone know what this medal is? It’s very small, it has a Bersagliere soldier on one side and an oak leaf motif on the other, with the words Guerra di Redenzione. Google image searches draw a blank. Any ideas?
Oh god, now I have to worry whether my public transport reading material is gendered and/or performative.
It was so half-arsed that each side suffered fewer than 2,000 casualties.
I should probably #HistNursing
According to my photos app, 18 years ago today I was on the Somme visiting the grave of the American nurse who tended to my mortally wounded Great Uncle Jack. He died of wounds sustained at Langemarck, she died of liver failure, possibly caused by breathing gas soaked into her patients’ uniforms.
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The women’s race was pretty exciting
👍 Good, Simone knows his stuff
Excellent, I t’s about time Sabotino got the recognition it deserves. Who wrote the article?
Excellent! Another idiotic idea for a bike ride in the footsteps of an epic historical event …General José de San Martín’s expedition across the Andes in 1817 to liberate Chile. And when I’ve done that, I can climb Aconcagua.
Unless a human actually thinks that French soldiers had 27 fingers 😉
What in the name of God is this shit? FFS, I can’t tell you how much I hate this crap.
I know what you mean about Amazon, but it may be your only option. I’m not sure what the situation is regarding overseas distribution.
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This new(ish) book is fascinating. It’s about the search for the identity of a soldier who melted out of the Popera Glacier in 1983. He was killed in one of the avalanches that overwhelmed the Italians on November 9, 1916. You can read about these extraordinary events, in English, in #TiTM.
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Well, he looks more like a sheriff than an engineer.
Spending the day curating the family archive. I thought my Great Grandfather was a captain of industry, turns out he was Wyatt Earp.
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+1 for Fonck
They had a unit out in Serbia in 1915, run by Daily Express journalist Anna Christitch and her daughter. US war correspondent Fortier Jones accompanied the Christitch Mission on the retreat to Albania (Oct - Dec 1915) and writes about them in his book “With Serbia into Exile”.
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An intriguing cast of characters…Serbian Secret Service, a City gent, two lost children, a bloke with an eye patch, a spiv, and Dr May Berry. St Margarets Church, Westminster, December 6, 1917.
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