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John Smith, aka Gaa-binagwiiyaas; a Chippewa Indian who lived in Minnesota, at the age of 129.

 

Unverified, sadly. The oldest verified person was 122. Of the 100 verified oldest people ever, only 6 are men.

 

7 Jul 1941: Sgt Pilot James Ward, No.75 Sqn (New Zealand) RAF, climbed out of his Wellington bomber to extinguish an engine fire to save the plane & its crew, making hand & foot holds in the wing fabric as he went. Awarded #VictoriaCross. KIA 15 Sept 1941. @IntBCC @NZAirForce

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Marvelous story................... I had known of it.
75 Squadron was a Kiwi unit and flew many difficult operations.
Squadron code letters were, AA

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The face of Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor’s revealed after cool 3D reconstruction. The reconstruction was made by archaeologist Maja d’Hollosy, who used two busts of Caesar as well as coins and a marble portrait of the emperor. RT The Archeologist

 

is this true

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Yes, but it was a loan of £15m used to pay compensation to slave owners. This was around 40% of the Treasury income, not the national budget (which would include other loans and was much bigger). So I don’t think the slaves themselves or their descendants would be especially grateful, as they had to wait another 6 years (10 years in places run by the East India Company, Ceylon and. St Helena) for their freedom and as far as I can see they got no compensation for their servitude. Half of the compensation went to absentee slave owners living in the UK, and the loan was put together by Rothschilds, so most of the money never left the country. Perhaps we should ask the descendants of those who benefitted to cough up some retribution. The Bishop of Exeter for example got the equivalent of £1.5m in today’s money.

Still, we did better than many other countries.

 

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The condemned cell at Newgate Prison. Prisoner was taken from here lead down this passage out to the yard and the awaiting scaffold.

 

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OTD 250 years ago the Admiralty authorised a ship’s company for James Cook's scientific voyage to the Pacific of 73 sailors and 12 Royal Marines. The ship then headed for #Plymouth for provisioning and to board her crew. #Cook250

 

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Sad to hear another vet departs.
Air Cdr Peter Hughes CBE DFC flew Spitfires, Hudsons, & Beaufighters.
Shot down August 1944 & held prisoner in Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape).
His widow says he made it to "99 & 2/3"!
He visited @raflossiemouth just 3 weeks ago.
RIP Sir, Blue skies.

 

Attlee insisted on being a pall bearer at Churchill’s funeral, despite him being 82 years old. This is him watching as Churchill’s coffin left St Paul’s for Tower Pier.

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Spitfire TB885 - dumped and buried at Kenley years ago and recovered by Geoff Nutkins from The Shoreham Aircraft Museum. Sevenoaks Kent in the 1980's, - was back in the air from Biggin Hill yesterday!

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Spitfire TB885 - dumped and buried at Kenley years ago and recovered by Geoff Nutkins from The Shoreham Aircraft Museum. Sevenoaks Kent in the 1980's, - was back in the air from Biggin Hill yesterday!

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Magnificent !
The greatest looking aircraft of all time.

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SPITFIRE/TB885

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Serial #: TB885
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration:
None
Model:
Spitfire LF Mk. XVIe
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2015
History:
Delivered to Royal Air Force as TB885, 19??.
RAF Kenley, 1955-1982.
- Used for fire fighting practice, 1955.
- Used in background of movie Reach for the Sky, September 1955.
- Buried in fire dump, 1959-1982.
Shoreham Aircraft Preservation Society, April 1982.
- Recovered from fire dump.
Lashenden Air Warfare Museum, Sevenoaks, 1985.
Shoreham Aircraft Museum, Shoreham, 1991-2015.
- Long-term restoration.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-6th Edition, 2013.

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Remains of #WWII RAF 322 (Dutch) Sqn's Spitfire TB885 @ Heritage Hangar to rebuild & fly again in 3yrs. Incredible!!

 

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On 8 March 1979, International Women’s day, more than 100,000 women gathered in Tehran to protest against the hijab.

 

One for Nines...

 

I remember going there in the late 60s and early 70s to watch the speedway and also greyhound racing. It was the longest track in the League. Amazing to think a stadium with that capacity was so underused although the speedway in the post-war years attracted 20-30,000 at many of the 14 tracks in London...

 

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A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street, East Durham in 1937 by Bill Brandt.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

 

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.[/QUOTE]
Wow, exactly the same sequence of words occurred to George Ball the American diplomat in 1971.

 

Wow, exactly the same sequence of words occurred to George Ball the American diplomat in 1971.[/QUOTE]
probably where the person who posted the picture i copied got it from