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#twitter #mental health #mental illness #wellbeing #history #autism

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4th Century Lycian Tomb in Fethiye Turkey

#turkey #tomb #archaeology #ancient #history #ancient origins #Fethiye #Lycian

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#goth #gothic #witch #witchcore #witchblr #facts #history #horror #spooky #funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #dank memes #dark humor #culture #history lesson

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#sharks #shark #history #twitter #meme #memes #tweets #tweet #funny #lol #humor

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One of my favourite WWI anecdotes was one British soldier recalling the start of the war when the first trenches had only just been dug—back when barbed wire wasn’t laid and steel helmets hadn’t even been issued yet—and said he and his comrades watched the Royal Engineers pull up unannounced with a reel of barbed wire and proceed to lay what looked to be a “clothesline” in front of the trench so tall a “giraffe could walk under it” and I could not stop laughing imagining the RE just standing back after proudly laying their Single Line of barbed wire to defend against the Entire German army like

#oh bless ‘em #they laid their own barbed wire for the rest of the war #some of the funniest things I’ve read come from that book #wwi #world war 1 #great war #history

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Red figure calyx-krater depicting the abductions of Europa, crafted in Paestra, Greek Southern Italy (Magna Graecia), circa 380 BC

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #ancient greece #pottery

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A beautifully gilt Eared Dagger with an intricately carved bone grip, Italy, ca. 1520, housed at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.

The text which can be seen on the dagger's ears is the second verse of Psalm 31 (30), which reads IN TE DOMIN[E] SPERAVI / ET NON CONFUNDAR IN [AETERNUM] “In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded”.

#weapons #dagger #eared dagger #europe #european #italy #italian #renaissance #pinacoteca ambrosiana #art #history

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Taking the kids to see Alien in Fort Worth, Texas, May 1979.

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Rasputin survived the majority of his assassination, including several beatings, stabbings, poisonings, a firing squad, cinnamon burns, having to watch a Lars von Trier movie, and being fed to a shark. Had he been fed to it whole instead of diced, he may yet have survived.

#rasputin #russia's greatest love machine #history #russia #boney m #unreality

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George Rinhart. View Down Calzada-Xochomilco Highway. Undated

#george rinhart #vintage #photography #black and white #art #history #black and white photography #vintage photography

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The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, January 4, 1922

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Odda, Norway 🇳🇴

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25 April - Anniversary of Italy's Liberation

25 April also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic, puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists, culmination of the liberation of Italy from German occupation and of the Italian civil war in the latter phase of World War II. That is distinct from Republic Day (Festa della Repubblica), which takes place on 2 June and commemorates the 1946 Italian institutional referendum.

Every year on 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day, known in Italian as Festa della Liberazione, with a national public holiday.

In addition to the closure of schools, public offices and most shops, the day is marked with parades across the country, organised by ANPI, Italy's partisan association which preserves the memory of the Resistance movement against Fascism.

The occasion is held in commemoration of the end of the Fascist regime and of the Nazi occupation during world war two, as well as the victory of Italy's Resistance movement of partisans who opposed the regime.

Formed in 1943, the partigiani comprised a network of anti-Fascist activists, from diverse backgrounds including workers, farmers, students and intellectuals, across Italy.

Resistance

Together they united in armed resistance against the Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime, making their struggle both a war of liberation and a civil war.

The annual event marks the day in 1945 when a nationwide radio broadcast calling for a popular uprising and general strike against the Nazi occupation and Fascist regime was announced by the National Liberation Committee of Upper Italy (CLNAI), a political umbrella organisation representing the Italian Resistance movement.

This announcement - made by partisan and future president of Italy Sandro Pertini - resulted in the capture and death of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, who was shot three days later.

The Festa della Liberazione represents a significant turning point in Italy's history, paving the way for the referendum of 2 June 1946 when Italians voted in favour of a republic and against the monarchy which had been discredited during the war and whose members went into exile.

Scurati controversy

This year's event takes place against the backdrop of a political controversy after the state broadcaster RAI stopped a well-known Italian writer from delivering an anti-fascist monologue on television a few days before the Festa della Liberazione.

Antonio Scurati accused RAI of censorship after his monologue was dropped abruptly from the Saturday night talkshow Chesarà for "editorial reasons".

The writer claimed that the move highlighted the alleged attempts by premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government to exert its influence over the state broadcaster which has seen several veteran presenters leave over the last year including Fabio Fazio, Bianca Berlinguer and Amadeus.

In his speech Scurati criticised the "ruling post-Fascist party" for wanting to "re-write history" rather than "repudiate its neo-fascist past".

RAI director Paolo Corsini rejected any talk of censorship, as did Meloni who responded to the controversy by posting Scurati's text on her Facebook page, stating that the broadcaster had "simply refused to pay 1800 euro (the monthly salary of many employees) for a minute of monologue".

Meloni added that the Italian people "can freely judge" the contents of the text which was later read live on air by Chesarà presenter Serena Bortone in an act of solidarity with Scurati.

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