After being arrested 10 days earlier while carrying secret resistance documents and then brutally tortured, on 29th September 1944 Italian partisan Virginia Tonelli is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste.

‘For a sense of how much Moldova has mattered to Putin, one only has to look at how much Russia has spent to rig this election and the widespread bomb threats.’ Great piece on the significance of the Moldova election by @snellarthur.bsky.social. ~AA bestforbritain.substack.com/p/in-their-d...

As you command. youtu.be/2x5-JtDhTns?...

Biking while brown is now illegal in Chicago.

Little bit of light reading on the train today- lucky vintage find! #WWII #Aviation #France #history

M by Fritz Lang starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut (1931)

Seafire aircraft XV of 18 CAG, Royal Canadian Navy Air Station (LAC a135894-v8.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History

💥 UAVs operators epically destroy smokestacks where Russians have set up hideouts in Donetsk direction

Tati-ville, decor construit pour les besoins du film Playtime, à Joinville-le-Pont. Cc @memoire2cite.bsky.social

Sketchy Mileships outtake

BATTLE OF BRITAIN 85: 27th Sept 1940. This day saw the most intense combat for nearly a fortnight as several Luftwaffe raids attempted to fight their way to London. The first attack came at 9am, with almost 200 Bf 109s and Bf 110 fighter-bombers crossing the coast near Dover. 📷 IWM HU 36181 🧵1/15

27th September 1942. The American Liberty Ship SS Stephen Hopkins, bound for Surinam to load ore, came across the Kreigsmarine ‘Hilfskreuzer’ (merchant raider) Stier and her supply ship MS Tannenfells. In thick fog, the vessels were only 2 miles apart when they sighted each other. 🧵1/9

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

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BATTLE OF BRITAIN 85: 24th Sept 1940. A rare ‘kill’ for anti-aircraft units was a Heinkel 111 of KG 26, coned by searchlights at 1:30am. Its tail was shot off by a direct hit, the crew of 4 somehow managing to bale out before the wreckage crashed to earth at Chobham, Surrey. 📷 getsurrey.co.uk 🧵1/6

El Electrotren 444.013 haciendo un servicio Regional Vitoria-Zaragoza El Portillo haciendo parada en Castejón de Ebro ( Navarra ) octubre de 1992. Foto: Felipe Aranda García #EuropaTren #instarailtren #Renfe #Electrotren #Regionales #Navarra

La locomotora PV 15 con un tren de vagones vacíos de carbón se prepara para salir de la estación de Ponferrada en dirección Norte, septiembre de 1973. Foto: David Moulden #EuropaTren #instarailtren #ViaEstrecha #PonferradaVillablino #ElBierzo #CastillaYLeon

Cruce de trenes de carbón en la estación de St Andrés de Montejos. En la imagen se observa el omnipresente furgón de cola en todos los trenes de mercancías, febrero de 1976. Foto: JR- Maquetren #EuropaTren #instarailtren #ViaEstrecha #FcPonferradaVillablino #CastillaYLeon

El Omnibús Barcelona-Puigcerdá, con la Alsthom 276.014 ( 7614 ) en cabeza del mismo, en el momento de rebasar la señal de entrada a la estación de El Figaró. Foto: Xavier Tomas #EuropaTren #instarailtren #Renfe #TraccionElectrica #Alsthom #VallesOriental #Catalunya

La locomotora 2T "Virgen de Aranzazu" con Talgo II a punto de salir de la estación de Madrid Atocha. Año 1960. Foto: Juan Bautista Cabrera #EuropaTren #instarailtren #Renfe #Talgo #ComunidadMadrid #FelizMiercoles

Production of LTP tanks for Peru began #OTD in 1938. Threatened by German annexation, the Czechoslovakian army nearly bought these tanks themselves, but the Munich Agreement made armed resistance pointless and the tanks went to their intended owners. #tanks #history

Fun fact: you can get a Sad Hill cerveza at Santo Domingo de Silos, with some luck you may even be able to enjoy one with the great company of the @acsadhill.bsky.social . Location scouting makes thirsty! Salud!

[September 23rd, 1985] Talking Heads release their single "And She Was"

If you don't know the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, you don't know the meaning of the word 'courage'.

The Cactaceae. v.1. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919-1923. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100137) #nature #illustration #art

El Fc Reus-Salou. El automotor Billard 2127 y un coche de viajeros haciendo entrada en la estación de Salou procedente de Reus, año 1961. Foto: Trevor Rowe #EuropaTren #instarailtren #ViaEstrecha #FcReusSalou #Catalunya

Ciclo Atala (Italy🇮🇹). #vélo #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #italy #bicicletta #自転車 #illustration #art #design 🚲 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♂️ 🚵‍♀️

John Horton, "Halifax - The Spring Board" in which the flurry of dockyard activity during the Second World War is clearly evident. #RCN #Photos #History

Spotted in this weeks uploads #2 I remember building a model of the Bv 141 as a kid, fascinated by the asymmetry. Still fascinated, many (many) years later! 1:48 scale Bv 141 from Hobby Boss. #histscalemodels www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15644196...

Spotted in this week's uploads #1 I think the Pucara is an elegant looking aircraft - the mostly wrecked one at Duxford is a little sad. This 1:48 scale Pucara from Kinetic represents a captured Pucara tested at Boscombe Down. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40614246... #histscalemodels

#OTD in 1942, Hauptmann Wilhelm of Flak Kompanie 501, equipped with quadruple 20mm AA guns and serving on merchant vessels in the Mediterranean, wrote up his report on how he and some of his men survived 9 days on a float after the torpedoing of MV Nino Bixio on 17 August 1942.

Rise of the Golden Idol DLC looking good

Mirage 5 belge.

Hay un momento en la carrera de un artista que marca un antes y un después: ese en el que creas la obra por la que siempre serás recordado. Aunque se convierta en un hito que ni tú mismo puedas ya superar. Hoy, para abrir la 5ª temporada de #LaHistorietaMusical, Thriller.

A principios de los años 80, la relación de amistad entre Michael Jackson y Paul McCartney parecía atravesar un momento dulce. Hasta que se cruzó entre ellos lo de siempre: el dinero. Hoy, en una píldorilla especial de #LaHistorietaMusical, lo de Michael y Paul.

Bonus double of “Cars I can’t wait to get back to”

Johnny Hallyday y Sylvie Vartan. París, 1971. [Jean-Marie Périer]

This is amazing.

Fokker F.XII SE-ACZ of Swedish AB Aerotransport at Artukainen(Turku) airport, Finland in 1935. (Finnish Aviation Museum)

⚫ Muere Manuel Piedrahíta, histórico corresponsal de RTVE en Bonn rtve.es/noticias

What a surprise! An article I wrote for Wartime a couple of years ago has been put online: 'Missing in Action', the story of Ray Thorold-Smith. With more pics and footage than the print version it looks fantastic. I'm so pleased it is 'out there' for everyone to read wm.awm.gov.au/read/missing...

Un grande!

This strange beast is the Hillson FH.40 ‘slip wing’ Hurricane. It emerged from an experimental monoplane designed to evaluate the use of a jettisonable upper wing. This could carry extra fuel, or the increased lift on takeoff might allow heavier payloads to be carried. 📷 vintagewings.ca 🧵1/2

Blimey.... Read this thread and also the linked thread about the B52 fire...

Cicli Dei, Milano, by Osvaldo Ballerio (Italy🇮🇹). #vélo #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #italy #bicicletta #自転車 #illustration #art #design 🚲 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♂️ 🚵‍♀️

Three books and a whole lotta dinosaurs. dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1689...

Janice Rule and Burt Lancaster in, The Swimmer (1968).