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Canadian WW2 poster encouraging women to collect metal, bones etc for the war effort. Seen at Laurier House Ntnl Hist Site. Reminded me of 1920s Soviet avant garde posters a bit.

Canadian WW2 poster encouraging women to collect metal, bones etc for the war effort. Seen at Laurier House Ntnl Hist Site. Reminded me of 1920s Soviet avant garde posters a bit.

Garage find…

Canadian WW2 poster encouraging women to collect metal, rags, bones, and rubber scraps for the war effort. Source: Laurier House Natl Hist Site

Memorial plaque from a Montreal church now at the Canadian Centre for the Great War.

Montreal’s memorial clock tower at the old port commemorates sailors lost in WW1.

I aspire to a position more nuanced than "I hate generative AI" but I just can't get there. In theory it doesn't have to suck. In practice it does.

Montreal’s memorial clock tower at the old port commemorates sailors lost in WW1.

Memorial plaque from a Montreal church now at the Canadian Centre for the Great War.

Significant Dates
2 AUG 1812
TECUMSEH,Capt MUIR & Roundhead led British & Native(100 Br.regulars) across Detroit R. to disrupt Hull's American supply lines-successfully!
Gen Hull leading his American invasion of Upper Canada failed to take Ft Amherstburg & was forced to withdraw

PIC-Ft Amherstburg

Canadian WW2 poster encouraging women to collect metal, rags, bones, and rubber scraps for the war effort. Source: Laurier House Natl Hist Site

Garage find…

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

A picture of Trump where his hair is orange and doesn’t seem to make any sense. It kind of looks like it is blowing off? I guess?

Canadian news using an…. interesting picture of Trump to announce the new tariffs.

The voice of the people

What do you reckon gang?
Are historians among the first to be replaced by Al or not?

Significant Dates in our Military History
26JULY 1936
His Majesty King Edward VIII unveils a Canadian war memorial at Vimy Ridge, France

6,000 veterans and their families sailed from Canada to France for the event
French veterans and as many as 100,000 French civilians also attended the ceremony

From my collection; a simple piece of paper but it radiates so much joy.
Welcome Liberators.
Dutch mini banner, 1944-1945.

Boyko and her IS-2 tank

Lieutenant Aleksandra Boyko was an IS-2 tank commander in the 48th Gds Hvy Tk Regiment. #OTD in 1944 her crew knocked out a Tiger tank. Boyko was wounded in the engagement, but did not leave the battle, earning an Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

A great retort from a housewife sick of the wartime slogan "What's lacking, what's lacking is ingenuity that's lacking" 足らぬ足らぬはエ夫が足らぬ

Ground down by rations/labor, she crossed out the "ku" in "kufū"(ingenuity), changing it to "What's lacking, what's lacking is a husband that's lacking" 足らぬ足らぬは夫が足らぬ

“British food is too heavily seasoned” is exactly the nineteenth-century perspective that we need to counter all those tedious American takes that British food is bland

To add some more context, Orville Wright piloted both of these aircraft.

“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.”

That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️

I've always thought this was quite a striking piece of combat footage taken during a Japanese Army raid on Chengdu in the summer of 1940. Multiple Chinese fighters make head-on firing passes on the formation.

I am afraid Matthias isn’t big on social media!

I've become addicted to the podcast, World War 2 Both Sides of the Wire. So thrilled to find that one of the hosts, @jessealexander.bsky.social is on here! I feel like he's my friend even though he has no idea who I am. As soon as I look up how to spell the other hosts name, I'll look for him, too!

Is it radium, asbestos or leaded petrol is the history of technology debate I'm seeing.
I'm worried it may be motonormativity, zoning or plastics.

“the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality” Thoreau

Just recalled the one time I tried to buy a French book in a Parisian bookshop and, when the cashier saw I don't really speak French actively, she suggested I "come back when I know enough French, as to not waste the book's time."

AI will start wars......