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26 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
(Colorized by me) Dick Winters and his Easy Company (HBO's Band of Brothers) lounging at Eagle's Nest, Hitler's former residence in the Bavarian Alps, 1945.

You can buy this print on my online shop (there's a jigsaw puzzle too!)
Print: rdbl.co/3BeKgiO
The Kehlsteinhaus (known as the Eagle's Nest in English-speaking countries) is a Third Reich–era building erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein, a rocky outcrop that rises above Obersalzberg near the town of Berchtesgaden.
It was used exclusively by members of the Nazi Party for government and social meetings. It was visited on 14 documented instances by Adolf Hitler, who disliked the location due to his fear of heights, the risk of bad weather, and the thin mountain air.
Today it is open seasonally as a restaurant, beer garden, and tourist site. bit.ly/3yk7hig

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12 Sep
On September 12, 1940, a French teenager took his dog for a walk - a simple everyday event, but it was to lead to one of the most stunning archaeological discoveries of all time.

Robot, the dog, ran into a hole created by a fallen tree. Ravidat threw some stones into the hole.
Returning later with some friends and a teacher he climbed down the hole and began to explore.
The boys discovered what were to become known as the Lascaux cave paintings – estimated to be between 17,000 to 20,000 years old and excitedly described by experts as “the cradle of art”.

Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave.
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10 Sep
Colorized by me: Cousins Tsar Nicholas II and King George V in German military uniforms, Berlin, 1913.

This picture was taken during the wedding of the Kaiser’s daughter Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia.
Tsar Nicholas II is in the uniform of the Westphalian Hussars and King George V in the uniform of the Rhenish Cuirassiers – their respective German regiments.
The wedding took place on 24 May, and became the largest gathering of reigning monarchs in Germany since 1871, and one of the last great social events of European royalty before WWI began 14 months later.

The wedding feast included 1,200 guests.
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9 Sep
Here's Leonardo da Vinci's to-do list to make us feel horrible about ourselves, dumb and useless.

- [Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs;

- [Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio;
- Get the master of arithmetic to show you how to square a triangle;

- Ask Benedetto Potinari (A Florentine merchant) by what means they go on ice in Flanders;

- Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are positioned on bastions by day or night;
- [Ask about] the measurement of the sun promised me by Maestro Giovanni Francese;

- Find a master of hydraulics and get him to tell you how to repair a lock, canal and mill in the Lombard manner;
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1 Sep
Colorized by me: Tuskegee airmen Marcellus G. Smith and Roscoe C. Brown, Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces.
Trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, they flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. bit.ly/3t4XITq
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31 Aug
Colorized by me: Col. Benjamin O. Davis and Edward C. Gleed standing next to airplane at an air base in Ramitelli, Italy. March 1945.

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27 Aug
Nellie Bly is widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, but she did even more, working undercover to report on a mental institution (Women's Lunatic Asylum) from within, launching a new kind of investigative journalism.
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It was not an easy task for Bly to be admitted to the Asylum: she first decided to check herself into a boarding house called Temporary Homes for Females. She stayed up all night to give herself the wide-eyed look of a disturbed woman...
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