D-Day veterans 'sitting across' from their younger selves in the same plane which dropped them into Normandy in 1944.4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/Damnthatsinteresting
Fulfilling a promise to an old friend, keeping watch one last time.4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
Guy Whidden, a World War II Veteran who got a mohawk the day before D-Day just did it again to spread cheer.4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/MadeMeSmile
After Faith Kipyegon won the Olympic gold medal at the women's 1500m race in Rio, her village in Kenya finally got electricity.4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
An avid history buff, Larry David took his daughter to every one of the Civil War battlefields for a family vacation.4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
On 18 March 1314 Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Templar Order, was burned at the stake, with the endorsement of Pope Clement V and the King of France Philip the Fair.3yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/europe
American soldiers talk to a Pontifical Swiss Guard from the Vatican, June 1944. [780x950]4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/europe
Shrek was actually based off of a real person named Maurice Tillet. He was a French wrestler who married an extremely beautiful woman named Olga.4yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
And when conscience-stricken British officials wrote to the Prime Minister in London pointing out that his policies were causing needless loss of life all he could do was write peevishly in the margin of the report, ‘Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?'2yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/HistoryMemes
March 17, 1861: Italy is, for the second time in its history, united again.3yr ⋅ albefranzini ⋅ r/europe
