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Terracotta Warriors fresh from the earth, before their colors deteriorate from the exposure. Photograph from a 1974 excavation

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Japanese troops land on an unidentified island in the South Pacific
Dead bodies brought in the St. Ignatius Church following a U.S. raid on Prague, on 14 Feb. 1945.
> Photo: Stanislav Maršál.
British Churchill AVRE crew stop their advance for a cup of tea - Venlo, Netherlands, Nov 1944
A pair of RAF Spitfire Mk IX’s from 241 squadron fly past the imposing slopes of Mount Vesuvius - Naples, Italy, Jan 1944. On the 18th March normal duties were interrupted when the volcano erupted. Three villages were wiped out and the rain of hot ash also wrecked a number of US B25 Mitchells at an airfield near Pompeii.

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Lincoln’s Cats
Origin: United States, 1809-1865. Description: Abraham Lincoln “possessed extraordinary kindness of heart” and was fond of all animals, cats in particular, and was known to care for stray animals. He kept two cats – named Tabby and Dixie - during his time as President, pets he had received as kittens from the Secretary of State just prior to the Civil War. Lincoln doted on the cats and was said to have remarked that Dixie was “smarter than [his] whole cabinet!” – he reportedly would play with the cats for hours at a time.
In 1930, the Hunter brothers embarked on an incredible journey, flying nonstop for 23 days. During this epic flight, they meticulously examined their plane’s engine mid-air to ensure smooth operation. This daring feat showcased their exceptional skill and determination, setting an aviation milestone and inspiring future generations of pilots.
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1944 - Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself.
Blessed post. Good kitty
i want someone to read that headline in an old timey reporter voice
Okay fun fact: cats were actively deployed to trenches and ships to help deal with rodent infestations in both world wars, and they had the curb cutter effect of keeping the men’s spirits high.
One cat, Simon, was given the rank “Able Seacat Simon” after dutifully killing rats and mice that were destroying the HMS Amethyst’s food supplies. The ship had come under fire during the Chinese civil war and many of its crewmen had died. The cat had been gravely injured, too, but he picked out the shrapnel himself – seriously – and went straight to killing the rodents that were overrunning the ship. He unfortunately passed from his injuries two weeks before he was scheduled to receive the Dickin Medal. To this day, he is the only cat to receive this award.
Here’s another WW1 trenchcat, who would have been ratter, mouser, companion and gas warning - not AFAIK by dying, like a canary, but since cats reacted to the smell of gas long before it was strong enough for humans to notice, the troops had a bit more time to get their masks on, and the cats went into gasproof boxes.
Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of No Man’s Land…
Meet Percy, mascot of HMLS (D20) “Daphne” with Lt Drader. Both survived the War, and Percy retired to live out his peacetime life in the Drader family home.
(Here’s a video clip; given how noisy, hot and smelly early tanks were, Percy seems remarkably unfazed.)
A US Army tank cat, Mustard of the 321st, with a Renault FT light tank and its driver Sgt Postal…
A Royal Artillery kitten (the battery mascot)…
Pincher of HMS Vindex on what looks like a Sopwith Pup scout…
Togo, ship’s cat of HMS Dreadnought (though I’ve also seen “HMS Irresistible”)…
Ship’s cat of HMS Queen Elizabeth atop 15″ main battery…
And speaking of big ships and big guns…
“Make nice all you like, Human. I despise you. I wanted a billet on a battleship, not this tinpot destroyer…” (Ching, of HMAS Swan.)
Can nobody explain to me why Lt. Drader was standing there wearing zero pants
Gold jaguar figurine, Moche culture, Peru, 100-800 AD
from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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Cat in a hammock aboard the Royal Canadian Navy destroyer HMCS Iroquois. 1944. Photo by Tom Ingham
Sculpture of a Bison (replica)
This is a replica of a 14,000-year-old sculpture found in the Madeleine Cave in France and is made of reindeer antler.
Museum of Archaeology, Durham University
The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.
This is a incredibly rare find. A ball of yarn made from stinging nettle fibers in the Late Neolithic (5900 years old) in what’s now Marin-Epagnier in Switzerland. The thread has been preserved by being carbonized. Look at how much thread that is! And how fine and even it is spun! The skill going into this is absolutely incredible. Imagine the incredible textile work that must’ve been made with that. For a reference here’s a ball of nettle yarn I managed to make with a drop spindle. That took me 300 hours of work.
Vincenzo Lancia on Fiat HP 130, Grand Prix of France 1907
Turin Automolile Museum, June 2023
Graham Hill driving the Lotus 49 in the 1969 German Grand Prix - Nürburgring.

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The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini
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LoC ClassDG: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Italy, Vatican City, Malta SubjectRenaissance – Italy SubjectBorgia, Cesare, 1476?-1507
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Life of Cesare Borgia, by Raphael Sabatini
No rancour is so bitter as political rancour—save, perhaps, religious rancour, which we shall also trace; no warfare more unscrupulous or more prone to use the insidious weapons of slander than political warfare. Of this such striking instances abound in our own time that there can scarce be the need to labour the point. And from the form taken by such slanders as are circulated in our own sedate and moderate epoch may be conceived what might be said by political opponents in a fierce age that knew no pudency and no restraint. All this in its proper place shall be more closely examined.
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Lucretia Borgia
According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day