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    A steward slices meat for passengers on SAS Scandinavian Airlines, 1969.
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    still doing it
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    how long would it take to set up and take down every day
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    London was founded by the Romans as 'Londinium' a few years after the invasion of 43AD. It was abandoned around 60AD after Boudica's revolt, but grew quickly to 60,000 inhabitants in the 2nd century. Here's a map of London town around the year 400 #LondonHistoryDay
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    Opposite our friends at the Tower of London stands one of the most substantial and impressive surviving sections of the Roman wall around the City of London #LondonHistoryDay
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    WWII --- U.S. soldiers in combat with tank support (Germany - 1945)

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    22A046C1-010F-4D39-8CD8-285086782D5D.jpeg For a while(1940-1963) finnish Väinö Myllyrinne (1909-1963) was the tallest man of the world, he was too in finnish troops during WW2. He was 8 ft 3 inch tall.
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    two thirty somethings at my place of work today didnt even know what d day was
    i convinced one of them it was a big battle in the vietnam war
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    An Avro Lincoln bomber, not Lancaster, flying past Lincoln Cathedral, taken just after the Second World War.
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    Argentine account in the #Falklands war: "When we saw the British come, we realised they weren't just fighting for their pay or their flag. They were coming to take back something which belonged to them, which had been taken. They wiped the floor with us...

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    WW2 bomb craters.
    This is the french village, Beauvoir, a V1 launching site.
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    Normandy, France.
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    Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken over the railway yards at Saintes, France, following an attack by aircraft of Bomber Command on the night of 23/24 June 1944. Almost every building in the yard is either destroyed or severely hit, and every line cut or torn up.
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    Before computers. The finger print or record room in the famous Scotland Yard, England.

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    ''Eaten by mountain rats'', Colorado c. 1876

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    14th June 1982 The Falkland Islands liberated
     
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    1960s Pan Am Travel Poster
     
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    WWII Prisoners of war in Canada were treated so nicely, they didn't want to leave. This is a German POW soccer team.
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