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wolf63
I know they are Scottish, my brother says Loval Scouts but can anyone confirm this?  Postmarked 1916. https://postimg.cc/McZTYTMq ...
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Canary42
The other 9/11 (harrowing, but well worth reading) :- The other tragic 9/11 was the day in 1973 when the Chilean military, commanded by General Augusto Pinochet, with the encouragement, knowledge,... ...
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ToraToraTora
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/31/batley-school-what-teacher-in-hiding-can-tell-us-about-our-failure-to-tackle-intolerance ....it's worth reminding ourselves what we are... ...
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Bazile
Did you know that the 41st president of the USA, narrowly avoided being eaten by cannibals ?  
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Bazile
Hitler had the British forces trapped and surrounded at Dunkirk . Yet he didn't, (to the  fury of his generals )give the order to ' take them out ' ( thank god ) This decision has baffled historians... ...
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Bazile
If the nazi's had won , how would Hitler have 'shared ' the countries conquered , with the Japanese . Was there some agreement made between them beforehand ?
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sandyRoe
...the party to confirm his lifelong leadership, only one delegate abstained. I wonder what became of him?
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fender62
i woner if any of it is relivant to the uk and europe today, its long read but interesting....
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Canary42
..... troops broke up a protest meeting seeking Parliamentary reforms, on St Peter's Field in Manchester. It became known as the Peterloo Massacre after 11 people died. Plus ça change, plus c'est... ...
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Untitled
https://ibb.co/5k4ChGc
  a story from weymouth printed in the local paper in 1938 much to learn from! wouldn't you agree?  ...
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DeniW
Please send chocolate
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curlyfries81
This July will mark 50 years since Northern Cyprus was invaded by the Turks. I have never been to the North side and I am not sure I ever could. Some say it's the most beautiful part.  Have you... ...
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mushroom25
the soldiers came...... https://x.com/i/status/1800079796438749216 https://www.oradour.info/   ...
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Sinead_O
Thought today was an appropriate day to share this. https://youtu.be/znjyZkzldE4   ...
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critical1
25 Across,Culturally distinct Iron Age tribe of what Dorset and parts of Wiltshire and Somerset.      (9) D?R?T?G?S I have requested the answer on many sites but I cannot get the answer from... ...
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ToraToraTora
We now refer to 100bc as we do but what would the people at the time have called the year?
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jm01
Is there someone who could help me with this please? This city has a connection with the picture which I have found by typing in to R.H.Barlow,esq.,whose sculpture hath given immortality to the... ...
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Indi_Knowledge
How many presidents were there in india? 
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ToraToraTora
Gordon Brown got a couple of big things correct, keeping the pound was one of them. He'd never own up but I wonder if he actually listened to TGL in 2001. Blair was certainly a... ...

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