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tfw you no longer hold the biggest naval L of the post-WWII era

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Two perspectives on the special military operation

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Glasgow, 1980. A child makes their own entertainment.

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Sometimes, history just needs a little push.

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They salute with both hands now. - The London Evening Standard's David Low reacts to Hitler's purge of the Brownshirts in the Night of the Long Knives, July 3 1934

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Here, we are giving you your Bibles back - now give us our country back! - East German anti-colonial propaganda, 1950s

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Thank you Putin for ruining decades of good work on public understanding of Russian military doctrine

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Another fucking royal PARASITE - the British Anarchist collective Class War offer their congratulations to Charles and Diana upon the birth of Prince William, 1982

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Don't mind me, just posting a picture of HMS Glamorgan not sinking after being hit by an anti-ship missile.

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So our poor little empire is alone in the world? Aye, we are - the whole five hundred million of us. Cyril Williams pokes fun at the post-Dunkirk mood of the British people in this cartoon from Punch, 1940

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Highly credible British proposal following India and Pakistan's diplomatic interventions in the some twats fighting crisis in Leicester

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The Rhodes Colossus - 118 Years Later - South African cartoonist Zapiro takes aim at South Africa's decision to deny entry to the Dalai Lama, 2009

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Prime Monster? United Kingdom, 14/03/2003, Daily Mirror - Britain's second-largest tabloid puts its opposition to the Iraq War on the front page

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There is truly nothing more credible than boomer Facebook memes

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Bullpup AKM for sale in Idlib, Syria, with desert camouflage, suppressor and mounting point for an optic

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Gutiger Himmel, sieh nur die Uhrzeit!

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How to tell Japs from the Chinese - LIFE Magazine helps Americans direct abuse at Japanese-Americans without collateral damage, United States, December 22 1941

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North Korean soldier armed with a Type-88 AK-derivative and the new NK-developed helical magazine

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A homemade pistol recovered by resistance fighters in Myanmar from a Junta-affiliated administrator near Mandalay - Anyone have a clue how this one works?

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Early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon belt buckle, circa. recovered from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England. British Museum. [2500 x 1671]

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A memorial plaque for a Roman dog Margarita (Pearl), erected by her grateful master over her tomb. 1st century A.D. In the collection of the British Museum. [2500 x 2124]

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I like the Martez sisters and I'd like to see them in TBB Season 3.

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Our Banner in the Sky by Frederic Edwin Church - 1861

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A Japanese wakizashi made by the swordsmith Yasumitsu in 1413 and an ancestral heirloom of the noble Terauchi family, currently on display at Windsor Castle, England. Surrendered to Lord Louis Mountbatten by Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi at Saigon on 30th November 1945.

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A contemporary painting of Colonel Thomas Thornton, the man who commissioned the 14-barrel Perdition to Conspirators flintlock, with another multi-barrel flintlock, circa. 1786

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Knocked out BMP-2, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine

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The Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly, a prototype ground attack aircraft. Main armament: One M6 75mm cannon. First flying in May 1944, changing priorities led to the project's cancellation.

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The Old Synagogue in Aachen, Germany. Built in 1862. Burned by the Nazis during Kristallnacht, 9-10th November 1938.

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The Last Moments of John Brown - oil on canvas by Thomas Hovenden depicting the abolitionist John Brown being led to his execution as he pauses to kiss an enslaved child, USA, 1881

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When you hear the ICC is investigating you for war crimes but you know that if they ever catch you the USA will INVADE THE FUCKING NETHERLANDS to spring you from jail

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Mock-up of the Mil Mi-28 Havoc, which first flew on 10th November 1982, 40 years ago today

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feel like pure shit just want 2014 Scotland back

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Behold: A rare Turko-Ukrainian MALE UCAV Pepe. This is one of the rarest of Pepes, appearing only ever 15,000 conscripts. Sunken Russian capital ships will come to you, but only if you upvote and post thank you based Neptune in the comments.

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The AK-47 vs the M-16: Why the Capitalist Gun is Inferior - Article from the Black Panther magazine, July 1970

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Murmansk, December 1942

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Edinburgh history: The first two German airmen killed over the UK, Under-officer Kurt Seidel (19) and Corporal August Schleicher (17), are buried with military honours at Portobello cemetery on Milton Road, 21st October 1939

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I wonder what Mike Sparks thinks about the M113 being sent to Ukraine? Surely he's happy, right? Right?

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Clydebank in the 1970s

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It's all the same to him...and to science too - a student group from New York's Public School 43 protests the segregation of blood banks in the US Army, 1945 [927 × 1200]

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My mum and dad at a ceilidh at the Caledonian in Edinburgh, 1997

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Can anyone identify the guns in this photo of two members of the Black P. Stone gang in Los Angeles?

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Cosmetic Sturgeon - article in the latest issue of Private Eye. Final paragraph is interesting.

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Too-much-info-warrior ride

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Vaughan gets a quick answer to his question in the BBC Live Text

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What is the point of the rough texture on the casing for this Mk 82 unguided bomb? Why not just go with smooth metal?

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Megamind inspects a Project 1164 Atlant-class guided missile cruiser

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T*nkies take yet another harrowing L

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Ireland fan complaining on r/coybig about how the ref was biased and the Scots voted for shackles and booed the anthem from his studio flat in Dublin (rent €3000/month), 2022, colourised

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What are these swivel guns with curious donut magazines modelled on? Archer S11E2 Bloodsploosh

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Hans Stopler's flintlock revolver, made in his shop in Nurnberg in 1597 and carried in the Thirty Years' War by the Dano-Norwegian general Georg von Reichwein and now in the collection of the Maihaugen Museum, Lillehammer, Norway

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Jaw fragments of Adolf Hitler, recovered by SMERSH from the garden of the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin on the 4th of May, 1945. Kept in the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Moscow [1024x640]

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Glasgow, 1980

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Hearts and Hibs fans watching fans of the 3rd and 6th place teams fighting in r/scottishfootball today

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Posting pictures of famous racists until Malky Mackay is offered another job, day 1 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General and first Grand Wizard of the KKK

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Luftwaffe reconnaissance photo of the battleship Soviet Union and the cruiser Chkalov under construction at Shipyard 189 (Ordzhinikidze), taken on 26 June 1941, four days after the start of Operation Barbarossa [822 x 652]

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The Apotheosis of Kaiser Wilhelm - Kaiser Wilhelm I returns to Berlin on a chariot, garlanded by angels and led by a Teutonic knight, after victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Oil on canvas by Ferdinand Keller, 1888

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He kept us at Tynecastle is what he did! He was a brave Lithuanian investor and in this house, Vladimir Romanov is a hero! End of story!

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The mighty Dorner Do X flying ship. On its first flight in 1929, the Do X was the heaviest aircraft ever made at almost 50 tonnes. [1980 x 1080]

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Armed police officers during the manhunt for multiple murderer and cop-killer Barry Prudom, North Yorkshire, England, 1982

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The Great Synagogue of Nuremberg, built in 1874, torn down by the Nazis in 1938

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HMS Nelson's B and X turrets in 1940, fitted with launchers for the Unrotated Projectile, an unsuccessful British 7 anti-aircraft rocket [800 x 613]

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The last of the Kaiserliche Marine: the MV Liemba, a Tanzanian passenger ferry built in Germany in 1913, disassembled, shipped to German East Africa, and reassembled as an auxiliary warship during WWI. She still runs weekly passenger services on Lake Tanganyika, 117 years young [1205 x 803]

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History Doesn't Repeat Itself, United Kingdom, 1950, David Low - Truman and the United Nations are seen rushing to get involved in the Korean War, whilst the ghost of the League of Nations looks on, in this London Evening Standard cartoon supporting the UN intervention in the Korean War

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A nets session on the flight deck of HMS Formidable (67) as she carries 1200 liberated Aussie POWs back home to Sydney after V.J Day, 1945

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19 October 1940 - the Home Guard patrol the Union Canal on a wooden boat, armed with a Lewis Gun and rifles

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Protestors outside Lords following the non-selection of Basil D'Oliveira ahead of England's planned 1968 tour of South Africa. D'Oliveira, a so-called Cape coloured in the terminology of apartheid, had just hit 158 against Australia and his non-selection was widely seen as a political choice.

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Cartoon Die Entwicklung der Panzerwaffe - a humorous illustration from WWII German training materials explaining why the Hornisse SPG was developed

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Eight miniature coffins discovered hidden in a cave on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh in 1836. The only survivors of a collection of 17, the origin of these objects, who buried them, and why, remain one of Scotland's greatest mysteries. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh [1920 x 800]

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How to improve a plane - British Rail advertise their new InterCity service, 1985

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Red lacquer box decorated with the Chinese character for spring, Qing-dynasty. Part of the Royal Collection Trust and on display at Windsor Castle, England [2000 x 1567]

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[April Fools] Mods are asleep, post SAS

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Ceremonial parade armet given as a gift by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to King Henry VIII of England in 1511. The symbolism and meaning of this bizarre helmet, apparently modelled on one of Henry's court fools, remains unclear. Royal Armouries, Leeds, England. [1920x1489]

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Menu for the wedding breakfast of Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and Philip Mountbatten, 20th November 1947

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Equality of sacrifice?...Let's all step down one rung! - the Labour Party attacks the government's reaction to the Wall Street Crash during the British general election of 1929

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The United Nations...United in Battle, in Victory, and in Peace! - the golden-armoured knight of the Allies rides over the smashed symbols of fascism in this Mexican propaganda image, c. 1942-45

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I've Settled the Fate of Jews --- And of Germans, United Kingdom, 1940s, David Low. The Evening Standard shows Hitler boasting of his horrors, whilst Nemesis reminds him that his horrors will be repaid.

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The AP building in Gaza, whatever happened there.

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The Saint and the Tiger, UK, 1947, David Low

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GOTCHA - The British tabloid The Sun celebrates the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser ARA General Belgrano, 4th May 1982.

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Hearts fans watching Dundee United fans as Neilson wins Manager of the Month

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The Civilisation of Europe - the front cover of the German satirical magazine Kladderadatsch criticises the French decision to deploy colonial troops, 23rd July 1916

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DRIVE ME CLOSER, I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY CANE!

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FOR HIS SAKE..MARCH United Kingdom, 15/02/2003. The Daily Mirror urges its readers to join the protests against the Iraq War to be held the following day

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Cartoon Die Entwicklung der Panzerwaffe - a humorous illustration from WWII German training materials explaining why the Hornisse SPG was developed

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A piercing analysis of the foundational texts of neoliberal theory

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The above-ground entrance hall for the subterranean Nørreport Station, Indre By, Copenhagen. The station is the busiest in Denmark, serving 165,000 passengers daily [1920 x 1152]

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The Russian Navy polar icebreaker (the first such ship) Yermak tows the coastal-defense ship General Admiral Graf Apraksin off the rocks of Suursaari in the Baltic Sea, May 1898 [1200 × 800]

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The unfinished Italian aircraft carrier Aquila tied up at La Spezia sometime following Italy's surrender [4000 × 2481]

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Soviet Army map of Edinburgh from the Cold War

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Leave Hitler to me, sonny - YOU ought to be out of London - the British Ministry of Health encourages city children to be evacuated to the countryside away from the German bombs. Dudley Cowes, 1940 [2443 × 3600]

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A German 10.5 cm leFH 18M light field howitzer, captured from Syrian Army stockpiles and used to shell regime positions by the Ahrar al-Sham rebel group, Syria, 2015

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Viz comic - The Real Ale Twats

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Battersea Power Station from the air, 1933 (x-post from r/london) [1180 × 787]

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Italian WWII propaganda, circa 1942.

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A Syrian rebel fighter tests a home-made remote-controlled weapon station with a Sturmgewehr-44, part of a stockpile of 5000 captured from the Syrian Arab Army, 2013

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Be afraid. Be very afraid. - The British Labour Party mock up Conservative candidate William Hague as Margaret Thatcher during the 2001 United Kingdom general election.

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Just a picture of three players who have scored more Edinburgh derby goals than Kevin Nisbet

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Interesting fluff on Tyranid orphans from an old White Dwarf.

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What the King conquered, the Prince shaped, the Field Marshal defended, the Soldier saved and united. - Nazi postcard presents Hitler as the spiritual heir of previous German rulers [Germany - 1930s]

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The scum of the earth, I believe? The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume? - Hitler and Stalin meet over the corpse of Poland. David Low, Daily Express, 1939

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An interesting tidbit in the most recent edition of Private Eye.

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YouTuber was born 250 years too early. Fuckin' Nick Minaj.

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hahahahaha imagine caring about women's football lol england fans coping because the men win nothing hahahaha lol

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WFAT at Bridge Street, Glasgow

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An armoured Samurai with sword and dagger, 1860. Photograph by Felice Beato [1275 x 1600]

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Vote! Or he'll be your boss. Anti-communist propaganda from the Italian election of 1948

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Have you ever heard the tragedy of Grover Furr the revisionist?

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Arlene unveils her new election slogan

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Cross-section of Hive Primus, Necromunda

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The Carrier of the Future! A drawing of the planned supercarrier USS United States (CVA-58), Popular Science Jan. 1949 [1621 × 648]

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Some perspective on the new-look galaxy - New Galaxy Map overlaid with the Chapter Map from Codex: Space Marines. Courtesy of user Taeknologik on the B&C.

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Hell of a guy, that Kharn...

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Russian nuclear icebreaker Rossiya in drydock [2592 x 1944]

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Americans commenting on Scottish independence be like...

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View of Pyong'yang, North Korea, from the Yanggakdo Hotel [1072 × 715]

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Troops of the 2nd Monmouthshire leap from their Universal Carrier during an exercise in Newry, Northern Ireland, on 26 April 1941. The Universal Carrier is the most produced AFV in history, with over 110,000 made in the UK and Canada.

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M'aster race

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When the blood flows just right...

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Celtic's next manager?...

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Diagram of the 2-storey superimposed turrets of the USS Kearsarge (BB-5), which consisted of a secondary turret of two 8 guns mounted atop a main battery turret of two 13 guns. It was not a success. [622 x 791]

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All for Norway - Help from England - German propaganda portrays the British and their resistance allies as pirates, Occupied Norway, 1940-45

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A golden statue of the Goddess Tara, Sri Lanka, AD700-750. Now on display on the British Museum. [876 x 2500]

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David Curtiss Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the KKK in Indiana, photographed in 1922. In 1925, he was convicted of the rape and murder of a teacher, one of the factors causing the collapse of the Second Klan in the late 1920s

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Copenhagen's Royal Library, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Denmark [1600 x 1000]

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Am I too heavy for strategic operations? No. It's the foreign bridges who are wrong.

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Tenement back door in the Gorbals, Glasgow, 1950s [1024 × 770]

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Labour says he's black. Tories say he's British. - The Conservative Party makes a pitch to black British voters in the election in 1983 [UK]

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Soviet command ship SSV-33 'Ural', NATO reporting name 'Kapusta' (Cabbage). Based on the hull of the 'Kirov' class missile cruisers. Not a happy ship - story in comments! [3000 x 2311]

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>tfw you pass on the commissar order and help einsatzgruppen kill jews and stop contradicting hitler's dumb plans because he literally bribes you with a stolen mansion but you disagree with him again when your mansion gets recaptured and you write a book so tank nerds consider you an innocent genius

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[Meme-virus Friday] Advice for parents: Know the signs and get the support you and the child need.

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My wings hurt

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The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau. The Blue Division was a Spanish unit under the command of the Wehrmacht. [1600 × 800]

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The ironclad turret ship HMS Devastation of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1871, Devastation was the world's first ocean-going capital ship to mount the entire armament above the hull, as well as the first to go totally without sails [3468 × 2364]

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The Soviet Navy of the future, depicted by GH Davis in Popular Mechanics, July 1950, depicting a Sovetsky Soyuz-class battleship and new destroyer and sub classes. Notable for being almost entirely wrong. [x-post r/imaginarywarships] [1187 × 894]

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The British Navy Guards the Freedom of us all - British propaganda, 1939

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Miami sharpshooters cover their comrades at the Battle of the Wabash, 4th November 1791. The Battle of a Thousand Slain, as the Miami called it, was the greatest defeat of the US Army ever by American Indian forces. Illustration from Osprey Publishing's Battle of the Wabash.

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My wings hurt

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