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@FactCheckIndia that you are all no different than any other of us @TwitterParents to see a @GrievingMothers screams for a #helpinghand to be seen beneath #HumanRights as the #lies that are still pouring out of #MarkRowley's mouth that he has to read word to word from a scrip
because coming out of #retired that means #braindead as whoever is #socialmediamanager floods #TwitterFiles with #NicolaBulley, this I also find really sad, so so sad for those who like poor #MollyRussell and those who mare reaching out for @CruseSupport as a senior
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5 FEBRUARY 1945 - DRIVE ON THE ROER DAMS BEGINS #WWII
After winning the Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Army began advancing towards Germany across several of region’s major rivers, most of which had dams that needed to be captured to prevent the enemy from causing major flooding. ImageImage
LTG William Simpon’s 9th Army planned Operation GRENADE to cross the Roer River and link up with Allied forces advancing from Holland, while LTG Courtney Hodges’ 1st Army used the 78th ID to secure the Schwammenauel Dam, supported by elements of the 82d ABD and the 7th AD.
Jumping off early in the morning of 5 FEB, American soldiers attacked into the Hurtgen Forest for the first time since DEC 1944. Although its progress was hampered by rough terrain and dense forests, the 78th Division made steady, if slow, progress.
#WorldWar2 #WW2 #WW2History Image
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7 JANUARY 1942 - BATTLE OF BATAAN BEGINS – #WWII

After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in Dec. 1941 and the fall of Manila on Jan. 2, 1942, the defending U.S. and Filipino troops withdrew to Bataan.

#Armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOC #WW2
On Bataan, the combined forces under the command of GEN Douglas MacArthur fought a fierce delaying action beginning on 7 Jan. The Japanese attack was halted initially, but it was reinforced over the following three months, slowly rolling back U.S./Philippine defenses.
During the brutal fighting for control of the peninsula, American and Filipino soldiers endured intense privation, holding out under increasingly impossible odds until the inexorable weight of the enemy forced their surrender on 9 Apr. 1942.
#WorldWar2 #Philippines
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#WorldWar2 ended 77 years ago, why do we see endless #WarFilms & #War #Documentaries from that time?

Could it be because this was the last war #Britain & the #USA    fought, where we were the #GoodGuys.

We've fought plenty of wars since then. #JulianAssange's fate shows ...
... just how much we want people to look at and examine our role in them!
@threadreaderapp unroll please
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The forgotten starvation of the ordinary: Bengal Famine during the British regime.
One of the worst phenomena of Indian history is the Bengal Famine. Lasting one year(1943-1944), it has cost over three million deaths & couple million more pushed into poverty.
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Many researchers disagree with Britten's explanation of this famine. Their study shows that this atrocity is caused by the barbaric policies of Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Britten at that time. Image
To this day, London has noted the causes of the famine as weather conditions and food shortage - indirectly claiming it was an inevitable catastrophe. Image
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On that Note - Season 01
All episodes in one single thread
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On that Note Episode #01 - Madhyamavati
#thedisciple #ksk
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On that Note Episode #02 - Athana
#srdvaidyanathan
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Gurkhas and the British

Men from the hillsides of Nepal began joining the British Army in 1815,right after the end of the 1st phase of the Anglo-Gurkha War of 1814-16.They have been serving the British Crown ever since.#Gurkha #Gurkhas #Nepal #ENGITA #Eng scmp.com/week-asia/opin…
The Gurkhas played an essential role in establishing the British Raj in India and fought for the British in Afghanistan, what was then Burma, Tibet and in countless other conflicts.

#England #Britain #British #Army #BritishArmy #Eng #ENGITA #Euro2020Final #EuroFinal #EURO2020
In the first world war alone, tiny Nepal,with a population of around 5 million, sent over 200,000 Gurkhas to fight for the British. 1 in 10 never returned. In the second world war over 250,000 Gurkhas fought alongside the British and more than 33,000 never returned.

#Eng #ENGITA
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200 followers special!

WORLD AT WAR

#WorldWar2 key events and their timeline with visual references.

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@ForumStrategic @SierraDeltaPk @Corpor8Xploiter @AhmAdTipu7 @Thunder07101 @WPCPSFION @ZA1N87 @ali_zarwan @schaheid @ainakhalid801 @AScf90
November 11, 1918
WORLD WAR I ENDS

Britain, France, the US, and other allies defeat Germany, bringing an end to World War I, billed as “the war to end all wars.”
January 30, 1933
HITLER APPOINTED GERMAN LEADER

Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany and later assumes dictatorial powers. German rearmament takes off.
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#Germany #WorldWar2 #München

81 years ago today 8th november 1939, Georg Elser failed with his bomb attack on Adolf Hitler and his closest comrades, as Hitler remembered the 16th year anniversary of the Munich beer Hall revolt that he led in 1923.
On November 8, 1939, there were around 1,500 to 2,000 listeners in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller, and according to other sources even 3,000, including a large part of the Nazi leadership, to commemorate the 1923 Hitler coup. The rulers sat tightly packed in front of Hitler's lectern.
Because Hitler's planned return flight to Berlin was canceled due to fog and he had to switch to a special train instead, he ended his stay in the Bürgerbräukeller earlier than expected by Elser.
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#Germany #BalticSea #Bomb #WorldWar2

In an air raid on the warship "Lützow" in 1942, a 5400-kilo aerial bomb "Tallboy" remained lying on the bottom of the Baltic Sea as a dud. After a year of planning, a team of experts is now working on the highly complicated mitigation.
It is one of the largest missions in Europe.
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May 27, 2014
SISTERHOOD OF THE ROSE🌹
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In #Atlantis, priestesses of the Goddess were gathering in circles of twelve to anchor the energy of peace and harmony.
They were called the #SisterhoodOfTheRose. Image
They later reemerged in ancient #Egypt as priestesses of Isis, with rose being a sacred symbol of the #GoddessIsis.
In the time of Crusades, Sisterhood of the Rose was the feminine counterpart to the #Templars. ImageImage
During #WorldWar2, they tried to influence some of the top #Nazis, sometimes successfully persuading them to more peaceful ways, and thus saving many lives.

Venus-Sun transits in 2004 and 2012 were a coded sign in the sky to reactivate the #SisterhoodOfTheRose: ImageImage
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#Poland #Germany #Warsaw #WorldWar2 #Holocaust #reperations

If what the Polish MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk recently announced is true, then the bill is ready. Shortly before the 75th anniversary of the end of the war on May 8,
the politician informed the government party Law and Justice (PiS) that the committee he led, set up in 2017 to determine the war damage caused by Nazi Germany in World War II, had ended its work. For the time being, however, the report will be kept under wraps -
and thus also the amount that Poland could demand from Germany. "There's still a good time for that," said Mularczyk at the time. If Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) visits Warsaw this Tuesday, this reparation question, which Poland has left open,
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Youssif Ali, son of Mahammad Cassie Ali and Babe Ali, a Bengali born in Sylhet (now Bangladesh) came to England in the early 1920s. He was the last soldier buried at the Muslim Burial Ground (Brookwood Cemetery) on 12 May 1947...
As a young man, Youssif Ali regularly travelled between India and London aboard merchant ships. After meeting and marrying Ethel Emma Wallace in London during the late 1920s, he no longer travelled. Instead he became a Court interpreter for Indian seaman apprehended for various..
misdemeanours. He also worked as a doorman, dressed in full colonial style regalia with an elaborate turban at the Veeraswamy Restaurant in Piccadilly, London. A job from which he was later sacked when a photograph in a newspaper identified him amongst a crowd surrounding...
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Watching @UKParliament statement from @MattHancock.

Very glad to see collegiate approach from @JonAshworth & @MattHancock and great to see thanks to the Paymaster General, @NazShahBfd, @wesstreeting, @SayeedaWarsi, @BoardofDeputies the concerns on forced cremation have been met.
I'm concerned MPs who due to the outdated voting system are putting their health at risk as they need to scrutinise the #CoronavirusBillUK but should have been able to scrutinise this virtually. /1
I'm worried for all those there and think its mad that @MattHancock who looks ill is having to deal with people like @SteveBakerHW and @CarolineLucas who are being so rude to @MattHancock and the other MPs. /2

#CoronavirusBillUK
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#OTD in 1945, #Tokyo sued for peace and free nations celebrated: #WorldWar2 was over. Emperor Hirohito told his people they should “endure the unendurable and suffer the insufferable” after 8 years of war. #VJDay #WWII #threadtweet Celebrations in London
#VJDay - Victory over Japan on Aug 15 1945- came as the #RoyalNavy prepared for the final invasion of the home islands alongside the Americans: Operation Downfall. Allied casualties were predicted to be at least 200,000 killed and wounded. #WWII #treadtweet Admiral Fraser chats with c...
The British Pacific Fleet was the mightiest force ever mustered by the #RoyalNavy outside home water: 5 battleships, 33 fleet, light and escort carriers, 23 cruisers, nearly 80 destroyers, 43 submarines and scores of minesweepers, sloops, auxiliaries & escorts. #VJDay #treadtweet HMS Formidable
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