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21 Dec
Sometimes I really wonder what kind of drugs these people were on in the Middle Ages.
“Go ahead. I don’t care”
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21 Dec
Wounded German soldier lying on makeshift bedding after being taken prisoner during an attack on an American fuel depot at outset of the last major German offensive of WWII, aka the Battle of the Bulge.

Colorized for The World Aflame. Read and see more in the book.
The "Bulge" was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the third-deadliest campaign in American history.

uk.bookshop.org/books/the-worl…
Original by John Florea.
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21 Dec
Letter from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.

"(...) although, my mistress, it has not pleased you to remember the promise you made me when I was last with you—that is, to hear good news from you, and to have an answer to my last letter...

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... yet it seems to me that it belongs to a true servant (seeing that otherwise he can know nothing) to inquire the health of his mistress, and to acquit myself of the duty of a true servant, I send you this letter, beseeching you to apprise me of your welfare...

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... which I pray to God may continue as long as I desire mine own.

And to cause you yet oftener to remember me, I send you by the bearer of this a buck, killed late last night by my own hand, hoping that when you eat of it you may think of the hunter...

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20 Dec
When Queen Victoria was 20, she wrote in her diary: “How handsome Albert looks in his white cashmere breaches with nothing on underneath.”

A few years later, on the night after her wedding with Albert, she wrote:
"I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening! MY DEAREST, DEAR Albert sat on a footstool by my side, and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before.

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He clasped me in his arms, and we kissed each other again and again! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!"

"We did not sleep much" - she noted a few days later.

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20 Dec
Adolf Hitler's command center conference room partially burned out by SS troops, in bunker under the Reichschancellery after Hitler's suicide.

Colorized for The World Aflame. Read and see more in the book.
"After the war, both the old and new Chancellery buildings were levelled by the Soviets. The underground complex remained largely undisturbed until 1988–89.

The excavated sections of the old bunker complex were mostly destroyed during reconstruction of that area of Berlin."
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