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The Great Emu War: How Flightless Birds Beat the Australian Army
Australia is notorious for its historical wildlife management operations of varying success. Since the late 19th century, attempts at containing...
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Goldstone: The lost Druid stone circle of East Sussex
People are once thought to have believed humans were sacrificed at site, one academic says.
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Women's MI5 World War Two roles shared in new Blenheim Palace trail
Visitors will be able to take part in code-breaking as part of the Women of Wartime - Secrets trail.
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Tank Museum announces ambitious project to restore old tank
The Tank Museum launches £1m appeal to restore the world’s oldest King Tiger tank, aiming to return WWII V2 to running order. Support UK tank…
If you love history and tanks (tick tick for me) then this is definitely something to take an interest in. This was the second King Tiger to ever come off the production line (hence the pre-production turret) was captured by Commonwealth forces in 1945 and has been sat in Bovington ever since. Making this a runner is going to take some doing.
I love how we "captured" it, turned up at field and it was just there.Tank Museum announces ambitious project to restore old tank
The Tank Museum launches £1m appeal to restore the world’s oldest King Tiger tank, aiming to return WWII V2 to running order. Support UK tank…www.bournemouthecho.co.uk
If you love history and tanks (tick tick for me) then this is definitely something to take an interest in. This was the second King Tiger to ever come off the production line (hence the pre-production turret) was captured by Commonwealth forces in 1945 and has been sat in Bovington ever since. Making this a runner is going to take some doing.
Tank Museum is great, Dad lives about 20mins away.
Sussex town to stage re-enactment of the most famous battle in English history
People will have a chance to view a big re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings on the very site where it took place.
www.sussexexpress.co.uk
I remember the nightly news as this was going on.
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Spent four years working on the leaping heaps.
The sidewinders were the game changers.
The sidewinders were the game changers.
He's good Red Wrench. Although the Harriers where better in Combat the lack of early warning capability cost the Royal Navy a lot of ships
He pretty much emphasised that
I know Jeremy Clarkson is like marmite to some people, but this a superb documentary on the raid at St Nazaire in WWII.
Rudyard Kipling WW1 letters reveal search for missing son
Letters dating back to 1915 reveal the author and poet seeking answers on his missing son.
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My mother was a national trust volunteer at Bateman's, and presented Charlie Boy with flowers when he visited as POW
Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong
A long-lost diary from a Chinese officer is shedding light on a lesser-known part of D-Day history. Found by urban explorers in a Hong Kong tenement, the diary details the experiences of Lam Ping-yu.
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Israel maintaining control deeper inside Gaza than expected, new boundary markers suggest
Israel has placed boundary markers up to 520m deeper inside Gaza than expected under the ceasefire deal with Hamas.
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Someone's found St AWJ's wallet.
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BBC are showing quite a cool series called “Civilisations: Rise and Fall”
I’ve only seen 1 episode, which I think was episode 3 of 4 covering Rome, Egypt, Samurai and, the one I watched, The Aztecs.
I’ve listened to a few podcasts on Cortes and Montezuma before and these shows, naturally only being an hour long, are more overviews than anything in depth but still pretty interesting.
Such an interesting story. Though I didn’t learn that much from it I wasn’t quite aware it was like 3 years or something from Cortés landing to the Aztec empire falling which one of the dudes said is the fastest fall of an empire in history. Would make a pretty cool movie (especially with the story of Malintzin) but they’d probably ruin it if they did. Be one of those things where our understanding of what actually happens would be far more fascinating that what Hollywood cooked up.
I’ve only seen 1 episode, which I think was episode 3 of 4 covering Rome, Egypt, Samurai and, the one I watched, The Aztecs.
I’ve listened to a few podcasts on Cortes and Montezuma before and these shows, naturally only being an hour long, are more overviews than anything in depth but still pretty interesting.
Such an interesting story. Though I didn’t learn that much from it I wasn’t quite aware it was like 3 years or something from Cortés landing to the Aztec empire falling which one of the dudes said is the fastest fall of an empire in history. Would make a pretty cool movie (especially with the story of Malintzin) but they’d probably ruin it if they did. Be one of those things where our understanding of what actually happens would be far more fascinating that what Hollywood cooked up.
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I saw that advertised yesterday, going to have a gander when I can.
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I’m looking forward to the Samurai one (which I think is next week) as I know next to nothing about that.
