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  1. Steelmonkey

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    Full head of hair, and only a wee sprinkling of grey (except the beard, which is like a badger!)
     
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    I have hair but half is grey, my girls call me “the badger”.
     
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    I've been full Kojak since the 1st lockdown, wouldn't go back now...
     
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    Unlike these fellas, I never knew they were so close to home...

     
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    40 years ago the Iranian Embassy siege in London was ongoing. Ended with an SAS assault on 5 May 1980. PM Margaret Thatcher was told the plan was to shield the raid from press photographers. She said no, she wanted the world to see how Britain dealt with terrorists on our soil.


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    Surreal picture from Russia...

     
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    How we used to play
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    Great British News...on this day in 1940. The start of Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and French troops from Dunkirk's beaches. In total, 338,226 troops were safely returned to Britain between 27th May and 4th June.
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    During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below.

    60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river's bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims.


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    1/6 #OTD in 1944 the greatest armada ever to leave our shores delivered fire, fury and thousands of troops on to the beaches of Normandy.

    By the day’s end Hitler’s Atlantic Wall was punctured by the bravery, ingenuity and overwhelming firepower of Allied forces. #Dday#WW2

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    how it started
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