#1940

Jacob The Pilot

Jacob_The_Pilot

13th May 1940. ‘The day of the Defiants’. A flight of six Defiant fighters from 264 Squadron on a combat patrol over Holland attacked by 109s. 5 of 6 aircraft

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

Behind the Green Door (1972) was one of the first American pornographic films to feature interracial sex between a white actress, Marilyn Chambers (1952-2009), & a black actor, Johnnie Keyes

Karen

l_ackman

1/2April 27, 1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp1942 Belgian Jews are forced to wear stars 2/2April 27,1943 Witold Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after having voluntarily been imprisoned there

RSPB

Natures_Voice

This #RemembranceSunday , we're taking a look back at the wartime history of one of our reserves - @RSPBMinsmere #Thread #LoveMinsmere Before we acquired Minsmere in 1947, the Suffolk coast

Marina Amaral

marinamaral2

On September 12, 1940, a French teenager took his dog for a walk - a simple everyday event, but it was to lead to one of the most stunning archaeological

Dan Thompson

artistsmakers

I'm going to help you make copies of some past works. No.1 in a series.Instruction: take a natural object, and place it in a container of water. Freeze. Remove, and

𝕄𝕒𝕩𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖

maxlofi

[THREAD]Classiques d'animations Disney 1/58Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains est le premier long-métrage d'animation et « classique d'animation » des studios Disney, sorti le 21 décembre 1937. Le film est une adapt

Ravilious

Ravilious1942

Today is #VEDay when we remember the end of the war in Europe. Eric Ravilious never survived to see that Peace, & for his wife Tirzah, it left her a

YourWullie

YourWullie

The Polish Map of Scotland is a concrete scale model of Scotland. The brainchild of Polish war veteran Jan Tomasik, it was built between 1974-79 and is claimed to be

Alex Tijhuis

alextijhuis

#Thread This thread is about the life of a German soldier that I did research on. Meet Heinrich, born in January 1917. His father was a farmhand, mother a housewife.

Petri Mäkelä

pmakela1

So I assume everyone is looking for something to #read while on #Covid_19 #lockdown?Here are my Finnish #MilitaryHistory pieces starting from the 1944 Summer offensive by USSR against Finland after

Michael Munaki

mukute263

A thread on a series of articles by Tinashe Nyamunda @baba_nyenyedzi titled: Money and Economy in Zimbabwean history: A concise currency timeline. Definitely worth reading. Thank you Tinashe Nyamunda. @happ_zenge

Arthur Chapman

ArthurJChapman

This puts the ‘ethics’ of history in a striking perspective. (Horkheimer, 1934, cited in Lowy, Fire Alarm, 2016, p.12) @Justice2History @alexisstones1 @JJtodd1966 @Marnie_HW @ls_gibson @belsenmemorial @UCL_Holocaust “The relation between today

Chris Holland

ChrisCardsFan

With a M-1928 haversack and the older Brodie style helmet, this GI in training in 1941 looks like he belongs in a different era. What really stands out though is

Justin Pyke

CBI_PTO_History

Here is a brief thread on Japan's terror bombing of the Chinese wartime capital of Chongqing. It is referred to in China as the "Great Bombing of Chongqing." Japanese bomber

Jon “Please Stay Inside” Wolfsthal

JBWolfsthal

It seems obvious that too many of our institutions have rested on their laurels and have been running on inertia. Our faith in them was justified before, but needs to