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The war the navy expected: recruits at HMCS York, February 1942, doing close order drills in front of a full-size mock-up of a King George V-class battleship. #RCN #Photos #History

Our Tuesday morning processional… youtu.be/8P09rxVaQAM?...

I love half-listening to a thoughtful, informative CEO interview on Bloomberg for five minutes, and at the end not having any idea in what industry the CEO's company exists.

🧵Corner of Grape Lane and Swinegate York. Michael Rothenstein (the son of Bradford born artist Sir William Rothenstein), 1940. This watercolour formed part of the 'Recording Britain' collection of over 1,500 topographical watercolours and drawings created between 1940 and 1943

Bonk endorses a federal napping amendment to the constitution.

A centerpiece of the updated design is the new Heritage Walk, focused on immigration and the migration of people to Rochester, according to a release detailing the first phase.

"There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water." — Sylvia A. Earle

George Barnett loved his time on the range. 1/

Wishing all a very Happy Cinco de Mayo! And Liz Phair is brilliant. youtu.be/ksVFqdrd938?...

This, my friends, is one of the most glorious notices I have ever come across in an early Buffalo, NY newspaper. Buffalo Post, Oct. 25, 1841, p.2, courtesy of Newspapers.com. 🗃️ #Buffalo #BlackHistory

John Horton, West Coast Squadron Leaving Esquimalt. #RCN #Photos #History

I love half-listening to a thoughtful, informative CEO interview on Bloomberg for five minutes, and at the end not having any idea in what industry the CEO's company exists.

🧵Just centuries after the last Ice Age, around 9000 BC, Star Carr emerged on the edge of an ancient lake in what is now North Yorkshire. This Mesolithic site became world-renowned for the remarkable preservation of artefacts buried in peat. Finds include red deer skull headdresses, thought

To counter the government’s propaganda newspaper edited by Winston Churchill, the strikers begin issuing their own newspaper, the British Worker. (Major national dailies are closed by the strike.) The unions get the paper out despite the government turning the power off at their printing plant. 2/2

The celebration of Cinco de Mayo honors the Battle of Puebla in 1862, as Mexican Nationalists fought against the Second French Empire and the French installed Monarchy of Emperor Maximillian. Happy Cinco de Mayo! A stamp from the final year of Maximillians reign:

A working paper co-authored by @ericagroshen.bsky.social, senior labor market advisor at #CornellILR, examines the economic value of reliable government statistics. The study shows that reliable statistics have real value, and that "forsaking them would be an incalculable loss." (via @economist.com)

@honer.bsky.social @tonyboccia.bsky.social Do y’all know if those are flags at the bottom of the mast here? This is from 1921 of a Japanese battleship; it seems odd they would be out in the elements like that.

He left me 0 ⭐️ on yelp.

Our Tuesday morning processional… youtu.be/8P09rxVaQAM?...

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Wars assume lives of their own, initiated for one reason, continued for others, concluded for yet another. Afghanistan was this way. So is America’s war of choice in Iran. Begun over uranium enrichment & missiles; fought for control of the Strait of Hormuz; why or how it ends is anyone’s guess.

🇺🇸 When you want to be the linchpin of the Pacific but he hits you with that MacArthur stare. This was the test Rifle Squads of these Divs in early 1944: 10th Light (Pack, Alpine), 71st Light (Pack, Jungle) and 89th Light (Truck). A unique aspect was mission dependent weapons

🧵 3 posts. Worryingly, Reform UK has said it would change how British history is taught in schools. It wants to introduce what it called a “patriotic” history curriculum. Britain’s history is rich with achievements that have shaped the modern world, from cultural landmarks and scientific

St Michael’s House opened in 1899 to house impoverished men who had been displaced by slum clearances in this area. It was built on top of the fourteenth century Arcades, which were constructed after the devastating French and Genoese attack on Southampton in 1338. 1/3

This.

Great thread! Hobart approved!

Wondering if there is a Buffalo Wikipedian out there who would look this timeline over and, if you think it passes muster, add it to the 'Buffalo Wing' Wikipedia page as an external link? I can't because I wrote it. 🗃️ #Buffalo #Wikipedia buffaloresearch.com/chicken-wing...

Y’all get your skin scans. First appointment was 3 months ago. Follow up today and doc put me in the chair for an immediate biopsy of a mole. Y’all get your skin scans.

Not casting any shade, the Japanese had plans for Kamikaze boats, Shinyo, at the end of the Pacific War. Apologies for any terminology variances. 1/2

Any scholarly historiographical analysis of why William McKinley chose to make the Philippines a US colony shows that because he didn't put anything to paper to explain his reasoning, and because he died an early, untimely death, any reasonable interpretation of cause is a Rorschach test. Puzzling.

Just found and appropriated this today. Purportedly the Marine guard from USS OLYMPIA, ca. 1898. If so, the Captain out front is William Biddle, who would become Commandant in 1910. The rifles are Trapdoor Springfields, which were at the end of their Marine career in 1898.

Thought of the preeminent American filmmaker @hoosierhomer.bsky.social for some reason…

Very much in the tradition of 19th century Navy skippers. “The culture of the quarterdeck” and the State Department representatives were merely ‘advisory’. Every one of them was Captain Kirk.

Commodore Dewey has asked for immediate resupply and ammunition. Dewey is acting on his own — he holds Manila Bay and Cavite because while the U.S. and Spain are at war, he has no other place to go. The McKinley administration didn't have a plan for what to do with the Philippines as war began. 4/

Filipino rebel leader Ernesto Aguinaldo remains in exile in Hong Kong. Commodore Dewey has placed a blockade on Manila Bay, keeping the Royal Navy, Germans, Japanese, and French at arms length. The Germans are pursuing new colonies in the Pacific and have no intention of playing nice. 3/

The Marines from BALTIMORE have secured the Spanish Navy yard at Cavite. Cavite Naval Station is now the only safe harbor between Manila and California for the U.S. Navy. The AP reports that the Republic of Hawai'i has offered the U.S. assistance in the war against Spain. 2/

May 4, 1898. Manila Bay. Because Commodore Dewey cut the undersea telegraph from the Philippines, no one but Madrid knows of the disaster that befell the Armada on Manila Bay. Rumors fly - news from the Philippines is delayed as written dispatches are sailing to telegraph in Hong Kong. 1/

May 4, 1926: A view of the first railroad station in the U.S., the Baltimore & Ohio’s Mount Clare Station erected in 1830, which is still in use in Baltimore. (In the 21st century the building houses the B&O Museum.)

Great thread! Hobart approved!

Ian- cat would like you to know that he is open to licking lil-e-lix off your fingers as well as head scritches. 😻🐈

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“War is hell.” - Dave, filling up the tanks on his F-250 SUPERDUTY at the ‘Go-Lo Gas Station’ at the corner of Main and Island.

Not ‘fun’. Certainly not ‘onions’.

An American President takes decisive and irreversible military action without having determined the desired political outcome? You know, the whole “politics by other means” thing? Have you ever heard about U.S. involvement in the Philippines in 1898? Quite the story…

Deeds. Not words.

It’s useful to check the origin of a quote before posting it. I’m really not all that into classical Romanian fascists, no matter how badass the quote is.

Gutto. Mondays fo zoomie-butts. It’s law. - Henry J.