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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone saying the Desert War was a sideshow and irrelevant, 2/3rds of the commanders in this picture went through it. Facebook WW2 pictures group. Details in ALT

Field Marshal Montgomery with Generals;
Lt Gen Neil Ritchie - Commander 12 Corps,
Lt Gen Richard O'Connor - Commander 8 Corps,
Maj Gen Douglas Graham - GOC 50th Northumbrian Division,
Gen Miles Dempsey - Commander 2nd Army
Maj Gen Gerald Lloyd-Verney - GOC 7th Armoured Division

28 September 1944

This is probably a status briefing at 12 Corps HQ with O'Connor in attendance on how to secure 30 Corps' flanks and proceed to advance up through the Netherlands.

Thanks Alex 'Windy' Miller & Bo Fønss for their assistance

Morris (Sgt) Photographer
IWM B 10388 WWP-PD

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 18h

After being arrested 10 days earlier while carrying secret resistance documents and then brutally tortured, on 29th September 1944 Italian partisan Virginia Tonelli is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 10h

People will look at an 1899 electric bicycle and be like “ooh it’s heavy” “ooh it’s bulky” “ooh you’re riding around with four unsealed containers of sulfuric acid between your legs” and frankly this is why we are in a civilizational decline

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 12h

My date with Angelina Jolie shelved due to calendar issues.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14h

Women messing with men’s heads du jour: Judith decapitates Holofernes with distaste but determination, 1597. By Caravaggio, born OTD in 1571.

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hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social · 16h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... According to a report published by the Bank of Korea in 2008 that looked at 41 countries, there were 5,586 companies older than 200 years. Of these, 3,146 (56%) are in Japan

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List of oldest companies - Wikipedia

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 16h

I’m not saying we should bring back the Alpha Jet, but we should totally bring back the Alpha Jet.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 17h

It's the feast of St Michael the Archangel! But did you know it is also the feast of the Blessed Charles de Blois, erstwhile duke of Brittany? Yep, that's because he fought the final(ish) battle of the Breton War of Succession at Auray on 29 September 1364, where he died! And boy was it dramatic

The battle of Auray, 1364. Medieval illustration of two armies clashing with spears. Everyone's dressed in full plate, but on foot, standing on a pile of bleeding corpses. The two leaders wear identical ermine tunics and wave banners. The banner on the right is tipping backwards.

High-definition images courtesy of BnF's Mandragore; low-res images courtesy of the Online Froissart.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16h

Dada perfection

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 17h

Just learned something new. “The document of incorporation for the Honor dels molis del Bazacle survives in the Toulouse archives, a twelve-foot-long manuscript dating from 1372 written in a mixture of Latin and Occitan.”

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The World's First Corporations - Yale University Press

It is commonly believed that the first corporations were English and Dutch trading corporations from the 1600s. But Germain Sicard, in an overlooked 1952 thesis, argued that the first corporations... ...

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 19h

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 18h

Craig Moore’s new book. Details in ALT @rivetsandpins.bsky.social www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/the-panzer-a...

My new book has been released called 'The Panzer Archives Volume One.' It is the first volume of a four part series. During the Second World War, the British War Office instructed their military engineers and scientists to examine captured enemy armoured vehicles and tanks and determine their mechanical specifications and abilities, and most importantly, how to destroy them. This vital information was then passed on to battlefield officers via briefings and technical summaries attached to General Orders. After the war, these secret reports were sent for storage to different archives around Britain. They have now been declassified.

The Panzer Archives series reveals these reports in a single collection. Most have never been published. The original style of language and presentation has been retained, and the photographs have been reproduced. This first volume contains briefings on the Panzer 38(t), Panzer II, Panzer III and Panzer IV, wire mesh skirting, the E-100 tank, the Mouse 1-man light tank, and the Italian AB41 and German light amphibious Turtle armoured cars.

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 18h

📅 #onthisday 29 September 1399 – Richard II is deposed 👑⚔️ Power, politics & legitimacy collide as Henry IV takes the throne. With Chris Given-Wilson, rethink the role of Thomas Arundel in this dramatic coup. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/448459 #History #Podcast #otd #Medieval #Plantagenets

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Panzer DB @panzerdb.com · 19h

Büssing-NAG schwerer Wehrmachtschlepper 8t Zugkraftwagen (Halbketten)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

As in 1940 when exactly the same fearmongering was used against people fleeing Hitler... any incident gets weaponised immediately and framed as evidence that the 5th column is real. Evidence and reason take second place to hysteria

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The info panel has this hilarious artwork.

Info panel for Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Come with me to the amazing Wideford Hill Neolithic chambered cairn on Orkney. Access is via a ladder but there's a torch provided.

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

IJN Aircraft carrier Ryūjō Date: September 2, 1938 Location: Enshunada Photo: Yoshi Horimoto from Kaga Situation: Participating in the 8th Basic Exercise of the Combined Fleet static.ow.ly/photos/origi... static.ow.ly/photos/origi... static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hit by torpedo on 14/10.1942; entered Alexandria on the 16th. SF on 20/11.1943,was fitted with radar in the UK. Assigned to the Home Fleet in 3.1942; damaged by an aerial torpedo on 14/6; Gibraltar on the 17th; underwent repairs at Rosyth after departing on 9/8. Returned to service in 10.1945.

The Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Liverpool (C11) in dry dock at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California (USA), on 26 June 1941, for repair of damage received in the Mediterranean Sea the pervious October. The false bow had been fitted at Alexandria, Egypt, shortly after the cruiser was torpedoed.

By Unknown author - U.S. Navy photo NH 60379, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53423845

The cruisers HMS BERWICK (foreground) and HMS LIVERPOOL in drydock at Rosyth.

By Zimmerman, E A (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer - This photograph A 20161 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums(collection no. 8308-29), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11515906

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September 29th is the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. Here is depicted the company of angels: Seraphs, Cherubs, and Thrones. BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia; c1335 CE; Italy (Tuscany); f.6r @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Conspiracy, 2001. Reinhard Heydrich as played Kenneth Branagh. The latter's finest performance.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” Reminder that if you’re anti-abortion you’re pro-harm/-death to women. The idea that being anti-abortion could/should be a ‘protected belief’ because ‘Christianity’ is nuts.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

21 year old Arkadii Petrov was a refugee who returned to his home country to help defend it. Prayers for his family, and the school and community in Kirkcudbright

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The late Ronald Lacey, the baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, born OTD 1935

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planning dinner is ‘oh shit it’s 45 minutes before I have to drive sprig to football training hey sweetie you’re okay with pasta with pesto?’

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bloch MB-174A3

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

HMS LIVERPOOL Underway. 28 February 1942

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/07/2025

So let me get this straight… Under Hegseth’s leadership, the Army is rolling out a policy that could kick out Black men for razor bumps—a medical condition that disproportionately affects us. Meanwhile, troops who refused the COVID vaccine? They got waivers. Sympathy. Career protection. 🧵

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Олександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Comparison of the AB42 and AB41 armored cars.

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Eric Anderson @revericanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This female red-winged blackbird sings in front of a blurred background for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BokehBirds - I’m not sure if the partially open wings qualify for the #AwkwardAvian twofer. Thanks to Helen for the themes! #birds #photography #ConnecticutBirds

A dark brown bird stands on a chain link fence. The feathers have cream colored highlights. The bird faces left and its beak is wide open. The wings are opening. But not fully spread.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look at the shambles. Crew was clearly all male. Don’t know how to stack a dishwasher. Useless, but should be given brownie points for trying, bless.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The sequel to Hot Fuzz is better and more entertaining than I expected. Major plot twist. Simon Pegg said it couldn’t be done, but here we are, thanks to one plucky Gloucestershire farmer and the CTP. The MoD police did the right thing in letting the phone ring.

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RAF Fairford suspects released on bail, head of counter-terror police says

Laurence Taylor says the five men arrested on Sunday are still under investigation as police consider multiple lines of inquiry, including the possible involvement of a foreign state.

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Clock Tower (now the Elizabeth Tower) at the Houses of Parliament. This ceremony was performed not by a high-ranking dignitary but a 15-year-old from Rochdale. Find out about her: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/f...

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From Rochdale to Westminster: Emily Kelsall and the new Houses of Parliament

This post from our assistant editor Dr Kathryn Rix was first published on the Parliamentary Archives: Inside the Act Room blog, which has many more articles to read on parliamentary history, from t…

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Georges Clemenceau born this day. Dominating presence in French politics in the late 19th and early 20th century. Initially on the sidelines criticizing the French government and war effort, after Allied disasters in 1917 France turned to him to lead. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar #France

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The same way the Chadiams saw off the Libyan.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...

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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY

School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 28/09/2026

No...for reenactments to be...realistic, there need to be people being horribly maimed and killed. Everything else is sanitized cosplay. And you don't need Nazis for cosplay. The Clean Wehrmacht is the cockroach of historical myths.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

28 Sept 1808 // 16-gun brig HMS Seaflower was captured by French frigate Manche off Sumatra after a chase that had begun at 10am on the previous day. When the frigate caught up at noon, the brig surrendered, having thrown all but two of her guns overboard during the chase. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a great sea-flood #OTD in 1014, the tide ‘reaching inland further than ever before, submerging many homesteads and drowning many people’. 📸Dave Fergusson

A river in spate as it passes through woodland.

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Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really interesting roll of honour. First, there are a lot of names for a comparatively small place. Second, many additional details which is unusual.

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