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Simon Verdegem @simonverdegem.bsky.social · 13h

In 1917, during 3rd Ypres, 11/Northumberland Fusiliers returned to the front lines after a brief rest and took over from the 13/Durham Light Infantry. C company, with 2/Lt. L.W. Ablett and 2/Lt. E.D. Bruty, went in support trenches near Reutel on 12 Oct.

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 15h

Three nice tables 😃

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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 21h

Bijna mijn trein gemist door dit gedicht.

Gedicht ‘Mysterie’ van Jorge Eduardo Eielson

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 22h

I can tell you as someone who works on early medieval manuscripts, some of those books were not read. Over a thousand years ago they were killing a whole herd of cattle to make a book that sat on a plinth and looked pretty, so some bishop could say 'yes I have that text in my library'. So good luck

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 1d

Just one more post with scenes from the Sunday playing #ChainofCommand at the Hartenstein Airborne Museum #SpreadtheLard

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1d

#OTD in 1941 the RAF struck Benghazi, killing 28 Arab civilians. The campaign against Axis logistics was no less deadly in North Africa then it was in Europe, and civilians suffered and died in the supposed 'clean desert war'

@rjhammond215.bsky.social @cedricmas.bsky.social @rafhistory.bsky.social

Missing: a social history of the war in North Africa

Background The war in North Africa is often seen as having taken place on the ‘perfect battlefield’. Space for maneuver, no civilians or settlements to get in the way. Histories of the war conseque…

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 1d

The Battle of Queenston Heights

OTD 1812 forces of the Crown & Six Nations soundly repulse an American invasion of Upper Canada at the Lewiston-Queenston crossing.

Despite the loss of respected British general, Isaac Brock, the victory invigorates his majesty’s subjects to defend their Canada.
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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Donkey

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Bob Pierik @bobpi.bsky.social · 1d

Eigenlijk: dader met jarenlang archiefonderzoek achterhaald, met AI technieken foto's die familie aanleverde vergeleken.

Bart Funnekotter @bartfun.bsky.social · 1d

Tachtig jaar na de Holocaust worden met nieuwe technieken nog altijd daders ontmaskerd

Dader op beroemde foto massa-executie Holocaust met AI achterhaald: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Dader op beroemde foto massa-executie Holocaust met AI achterhaald

De identiteit van de schutter op de foto uit Winniza is achterhaald met AI en hulp van nabestaanden: het blijkt SS'er Jakobus Onnen te zijn.

www.nrc.nl

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 1d

"Remember Maidanek. It's the place at the end of the road that fascism must travel."

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Not the Western Front Society @ntwf.bsky.social · 1d

Issue 1 of the journal of the Not the Western Front Society has been published 5 great articles in this issue including The Siege of Tsing-Tao Part 1, Ramadi and Signal Company in Gallipoli

Its just £7.50 a year for subscriptions and you can sign up at www.trybooking.com/uk/ESJZ

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 1d

remarkably easy to use!

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Parcours 14-18 @parcours14-18.bsky.social · 3d

Découverte d'un livre sur la #1GM proposant une vision mêlant Histoire, philosophie, mysticisme & œuvre littéraire. La guerre d’un fantassin en 41 thèmes par Fernand Pignatel.
L’Offertoire, trente scènes du calvaire du poilu illustrées par Pierre Gerbaud
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Couverture de l'ouvrage de PIGNATEL Fernand, L’Offertoire, trente scènes du calvaire du poilu illustrées par Pierre Gerbaud, Paris, Étienne Chiron, 72 pages.

Illustration de Pierre Gerbaud datée de 1918. Page 43.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Hannah Höch’s lithograph Frühlings-Messe der Kunstgewerbe Gruppe, 1925 www.christies.com/lot/lot-hann...?

where do I even begin. it has words, lots of them. a stylised face and hand, lots of straight lines in different colours

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for helping out on Saturday! Good to have you around.

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 2d

Great to have you around! And indeed, Nick and Jan are amazing :-)

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 2d

Sell them; use the money to buy painted miniatures ;-) Unless you really enjoy painting and think you will do that soon enough to be able to play before new releases obsolete your army (list)

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 2d

Have you considered buying a second hand army. There's quite a few shops and online stores offering them now. Also, ebay. If it's about playing rather than painting, you might be faster this way. Prices seem ok, but maybe some of these armies lack the fancy heroes / monsters etc

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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renevda @renevda.bsky.social · 2d

Lard day Hartenstein was great! Besides informing the unsuspecting museum visitors about NerdLard some great tables especially good company was had. Some closing game shots on the “exploits of a beutepanzer”. #spreadthelard

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Daniel Schwarze @24ergast.bsky.social · 2d

I made it to the Hartenstein Hotel Airborne Museum with two of my boys. A brilliant afternoon game of Chain of Command at Nick and Jan's table #SpreadtheLard

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 3d

Exceptionally well, with a bit if luck. It survived a PIAT to the side. But it took out a Vickers, blocked a JOP and helped secure it by infantry. I believe it then also seriously ruined a Para section

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 3d

A few scenes from yesterday's games at the Hartenstein Airborne Museum #ChainofCommand #SpreadtheLard

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Angélique van Drunen 🇪🇺 @avdrunen.bsky.social · 3d

You know who else had an arch built during his presidency?
- architecturetoday.co.uk/reflections-...

- fresques.ina.fr/mitterrand/p...

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Jur @jurdj.bsky.social · 3d

And we're off at the Hartenstein Airborne Museum with three tables : Dennenoord, Oosterbeek Laag train station and Ginkel Heath #ChainofCommand #SpreadtheLard

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