In February of 1945, after relieved from the fighting near Belvedere, a soldier of the 10th Mountain Division naps in a foxhole with his rifle nearby in Italy. 🪖
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On this day in 1985, the mayors of Rome and the town of El Djem, a Tunisian community near the site of ancient Carthage, sit down together to sign a treaty of friendship. Both claim that the meeting marks the official end of the Third Punic War of 146 BC.
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On this day in 1913, two Greek military pilots in a French-made Farman MF.7 biplane locate the Ottoman fleet as it steams through the Dardanelles. It's history's first naval air mission.
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On this day in 1941, the United Service Organizations (@The_USO) is established. By D-Day, the USO will be putting on an estimated 700 shows a day for American troops serving overseas.
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Today in 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta in Crimea to plan for the end of the war in Europe. Talks focus on the partition of Germany and the future of Poland. Within weeks FDR will be dead and Moscow soon reneges on its pledge to allow free elections in Poland
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On this day in 1917, a German U-boat sinks the American steamer SS Housatonic off the English coast. Washington responds by cutting diplomatic ties with Berlin. Two months later, the United States will declare war.
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A Marine wearing an early war Hawley helmet liner and an Army 1st Pattern Tunic, moves through a swamp near Hill 660 on Cape Gloucester, New Britain in 1944. 🪖
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After landing his damaged plane, Captain Robert Maloney of the 55th Fighter Group stands next to the hole in his wing caused by a German telegraph pole that he hit while strafing a German military train near Ulm, Germany. ✈️
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In February of 1945, a machine gunner with the 70th Infantry Division is helped by a young French boy as he cleans his weapon in Etzling, France. 🪖
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In February of 1945, two soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division play cards as they wait for orders to move out of Vettweiß, Germany. 🪖
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81 years ago today, German POWs support wounded American soldiers near Colmar, France. 🪖
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⚫ Three head sculptures from Ife, capital of the kingdom of Ife (11-15th century CE) in what is today southern Nigeria.
The left and right examples are painted plaster casts of brass originals. The centre head is a brass original.
Height: approx. 35 centimetres. 14th to early 15th century CE. (British Museum, London).
📷 Photo by The British Museum.
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The left and right examples are painted plaster casts of brass originals. The centre head is a brass original.
Height: approx. 35 centimetres. 14th to early 15th century CE. (British Museum, London).
📷 Photo by The British Museum.
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🏹 The ancient Olympic Games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of Olympia, in the western Peloponnese, in honour of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek religion.
The games, held from 776 BCE to 393 CE, involved participants and spectators from all over Greece and even beyond.
The Olympic Games were the most important cultural event in ancient Greece, and they ran for 293 consecutive Olympiads. So important were the Games in the ancient world that they were even used as a basis for the calendar.
📝 Article and photos by Mark Cartwright.
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The games, held from 776 BCE to 393 CE, involved participants and spectators from all over Greece and even beyond.
The Olympic Games were the most important cultural event in ancient Greece, and they ran for 293 consecutive Olympiads. So important were the Games in the ancient world that they were even used as a basis for the calendar.
📝 Article and photos by Mark Cartwright.
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On this day in 1783, France and Spain call off a failed three-and-a-half-year siege of the British territory of Gibraltar. Although a sideshow of the American War of Independence, the standoff actually represents the largest battle of the conflict.
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Today in 1862, Federal troops capture the Confederate bastion of Fort Henry, Tennessee. It's an early victory for an up-and-coming general by the name of Ulysses S. Grant. The capture of the fort opens up the Tennessee River to Union gunboats which begin targeting Rebel shipping
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On this day in 1904, Japan officially cuts diplomatic ties with Russia over disputed territories in Manchuria and Korea. Two days later, the two empires will be at war.
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Today in 1778, France officially recognizes the newly established United States with the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. The pact opens up the War of Independence to direct French (and later Spanish and Dutch) intervention saving America’s precarious rebellion against Britain
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A stained-glass window at the church in Angoville-au-Plain, France in honor of the 101st Airborne Division. 🇺🇸
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82 years ago today, Cpl. Stephen Zabur & his field ambulance unit in the 5th Army work with men from a German ambulance unit to give first aid to a wounded German soldier in the Battle of Anzio. 🪖
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