#1941

I may not know what 10+47+3 equals but I do know every battle that took place during the second world war African FrontWestern Desert Campaign: June 1940 – February 1943Italian
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Today marks 80 years since the May Blitz, a devastating week for Liverpool, when 681 planes dropped 870 tonnes of high explosives and more than 112,000 firebombs on the city.
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This is not really responsive to any specific event, but living through the Trump era has really clarified something for me, and that’s how much fascism is a disease rooted
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Orwell 1941: “This is the age of the totalitarian state, which does not and probably cannot allow the individual any freedom whatsoever. ...one must face the risk that this phenomenon
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14 August 1941 | Saint ft. Maximilian #Kolbe OFM was killed with a phenol injection inside a starvation cell of Block 11 of the German #Auschwitz I camp. On 29
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Intrigued by how people denigrate what the French had to face in 1940 while forgetting that the French were fighting a more powerful Wehrmacht than was used to attack the
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Citizen Kane (1941)A thread http://waldina.com/2021/05/01/citizen-kane-1941-2/ Eighty years ago today, the film Citizen Kane was released. It was a box office flop and openly booed at the Academy Awards that year,
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Charles Camoin, Village Street, Collioure, 1912 AndrĂ© Derain, Phare de Collioure, 1905 Albert Marquet, Vue de Collioure, 1912 Henri Matisse. IntĂ©rieur Ă  Collioure, 1905 AndrĂ© Derain, Port de pĂȘche, Collioure,
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The 1940s original YCC: threadThe initial proposal to peg the US Treasury yield curve was first presented at the June 1941 FOMC meeting by Emanuel Goldenweiser, director of the Division
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Random Non-Louise Photo: Donna Reed in a photo shoot with Asta the playful terrier for “Shadow of the Thin Man” (1941). (Thread) Notice: This seemingly endless thread is just an
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The 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade arrived in the UK in July 1941. Clyde Wilson a former boxer from Boston USA pictured by Robert Chandler of the Daily Sketch and HW
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1. If these shirts are actually being created by non-Chinese Asian Americans then I’m embarrassed for y’all but this is hardly the first time there was a lack of inter-ethnic
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Jack Delano/FSA: Mrs. Leroy Dunn chopping cotton in a field. White Plains (vicinity), Georgia. May 1941. The photo reminds me a lot of some of Charles White's depictions of African
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You can keep your MCU movie marathons. I’m going to watch all the @DisneyStudios animated classics in order. 58 movies. Here we go #disneychallenge #lockdown 1. Snow White & the
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#Otd-8 April 1941: 1st night of Belfast Blitz. 13 killed. De Valera authorised 71 firemen from Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin & DĂșn Laoghaire to assist. There would be 3 more nights.
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Right, today's #History time machine takes us back to what was then Danzig in 1941, where #WW2 had begun two years earlier. What passed for a normal and peaceful life
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