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WW2, those Tigers tho, spicy.
Every 12 year old thinks the tiger was the best tank ever made

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can someone who is interested in it tell me what the craze is about tanks and aircraft, seems boring as shite imo
 
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can someone who is interested in it tell me what the craze is about Bum ass east germany, seems boring as shite imo
 

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The sinking of SMS Viribus Unitis, the first Tegetthoff-class dreadnought battleship of Austria-Hungary. 01/11/1918

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"Armed troops form a roadblock at Texas City, Texas", April 1947

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Former US President Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley at the White House (December 21st, 1970)
Legend has it Elvis and his posse' were hanging out at Graceland and stoned out of their gourds on cocaine. For what ever reason he decided that he needed to speak with Nixon. So they all loaded up on his private jet ( the "Lisa Marie") and flew out to DC completely unannounced. When Elvis and company showed up at the White House Nixon just happened to be in the Oval Office.

POTUS and his staff talked it over and decided to let them in. It was an election year and they thought Elvis might help them with then youth vote.

Elvis wanted a police badge from the DEA.
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Men pose with various samurai armor and weapons, Japan, 1880

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The Arsenal of Guns & Ammunition Found in Bonnie & Clyde’s Car After They Were Killed in the Ambush by Law Enforcement 1934​

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HMS Antelope explodes off the coast of East Falkland after attempts to defuse an unexploded Argentina bomb fail. 24/05/1982

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Oleksiy Ananenko, Valeriy Bespalov and Boris Baranov — The three Chernobyl divers. Ukraine, Chernobyl, 1980s


 
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"At noon on 2 February 1943, Army Group Don received a radio message, 'Cloud ceiling five thousand meters. Visibility twelve kilometres. Clear sky, scattered cloud. Temperature 30 degrees below. Above Stalingrad fog and red dust. Weather station closing down'. And then, as a last sentence, a simple, poignant farewell, 'Greeting to all at home'. The last curtain over the tragedy at Stalingrad had fallen."

Something about the final message from the defeated Sixth Army at Stalingrad just being this lonely weather station in a sea of enemies giving its final report and a sombre farewell got me having some kind of abstract feel.
 
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The Battle of Scapa Flow, 1919

In the wake of the allied demands for the complete surrender of the High Seas Fleet to the British at Scapa, Orkney, the crews were given orders by their superior officers to scuttle the fleet in the flow rather than suffer the indignity of handing over Germany's greatest oceangoing fleet.

I went to Orkney earlier this year and saw evidence of this final confrontation of the Great War.

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The wrecks of Scapa, seen in 2019.​
 
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