#Normandy

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update August 19: Pardon me, but sometimes we should stop midstream and ask WTF are we doing here?Colleges who have launched in person may want to do just that.

Sheylex™❁

djsheylex

10 countries you probably never heard about - A thread.1. Cook Islands.A self-governing parliamentary democracy. With over 90 000 tourists per year, tourism is their far best industry and their

Egham Museum

EghamMuseum

What do we have here? Oh, just a MEGA Egham-based Twitter thread. No biggie What's it about? Erm, that time the people of Egham adopted HMS Orestes in March, 1942Well,

Robert McNees

mcnees

Cécile DeWitt-Morette, mathematical physicist who made foundational contributions to the study of Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity, and founded the Les Houches Summer School,

FC1

Thunder1JF

200 followers special!WORLD AT WAR#WorldWar2 key events and their timeline with visual references.Long @ForumStrategic @SierraDeltaPk @Corpor8Xploiter @AhmAdTipu7 @Thunder07101 @WPCPSFION @ZA1N87 @ali_zarwan @schaheid @ainakhalid801 @AScf90

James Taub

TaubHistory

(1) OK @TheWFA, I'll bite. There are so many reasons for this it couldn't all be contained in a single chain of tweets. Whole books have been (and continue to

Matt Bone

BoneyAbroad

Just caught up with @WW2TV turning the tables on @WW2girl1944 and @churchill_alex for this great @hack_history chat.History Hack has been a joy throughout this mad 2020. Being asked on as

Ben Mayne

BattlefieldBen

After a visit to the archives last week I came across an interesting order in relation to 'Burials'. Issued to the 27th Armoured Brigade ahead of Operation Overlord, section 29

Ben Giles

ben_giles

Arizona Republican elected officials have reacted to the siege at the U.S. Capitol by blaming, and this is not a comprehensive list, Democrats, Doug Ducey, other Republicans, Antifa, and Congress.

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Snapshots of Hill 112: The Pivotal Normandy BattleWhat was it to fight in a 6 week battle of pure attrition, where all that mattered was the complete destruction of the

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

A brief glance at how a British infantry division actually reached Normandy and why anyone quietly thinking Sealion that would still work is a right plonker. /1#WW2 #SWW #History Efficiently

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

Throughout the Normandy campaign, Allied commanders anticipated that German soldiers would surrender in large numbers, but this... rarely happened.Why? /1#WW2 #SWW #History Throughout the campaign this question vexed the Allies,

Steph ☃️

StoriesSteph

A ManShep romance thread for @stillicides because MS is soft and lovely Before I start I should really say that I may be talking rubbish about everything as I seem

Jack M Silverstein

readjack

A brief history of the Bears and #PearlHarbor — a thread@WCGridiron On December 7, 1941, the Chicago Bears were "on the road" at Comiskey Park for a win-or-go-home game against

Jonathan Ware

ReassessHistory

The Universal Carrier (Part One)How did this piece of open topped herp-a-derp become the coolest piece of kit in infantry battalions scrapping through the liberation of North West Europe?*I know

Eddie Du

Edourdoo

A shire is a traditional term for a division of land, found in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and some other English-speaking countries. It was first used in Wessex from

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