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ABD’nin Tennessee eyaletinde hazine arayan grup, girdikleri mağaranın derinliklerinde bir stadyumdan daha büyük dev bir yer altı odasıyla karşılaştı.
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Bu paylaşımdaki kişiler hazine avcısı değil, Action Adventure Twins YouTube kanalının mağara kaşifleridir. Klip onların bir keşif videosundan alınmıştır.
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This is what the #Portuguese accent of Goa sounded like, particularly among the educated classes during the colonial period. The speaker is Dr Manohar Sardessai, a renowned Goan poet widely regarded as one of the greatest literary figures in Konkani, the Goan language.
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The newest war cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission stands on the edge of Fromelles in northern France. It was dedicated on 19 July 2010, the 94th anniversary of the battle, and was the first new CWGC cemetery in fifty years.
The 250 Australian and British soldiers buried here fell in the attack of the 5th Australian Division and the British 61st Division on 19 and 20 July 1916. The Germans buried them in mass graves behind Pheasant Wood. Lambis Englezos, an amateur historian from Melbourne, traced the pits, and Oxford Archaeology recovered the men in 2009.
DNA from relatives has since put names on 181 headstones, the most recent this July. Sixty-nine remain unknown.
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An historical gem. A short documentary on Glasgow in the 1970s presented & written by the radical experimental psychologist RD Laing. Didn't know this existed. youtu.be/VsAf2FYp78o?is=A5in…
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50年以上前のチェコ発、
異質さに満ちた子供部屋。
人形や衣服が不穏な生命体の如く動き回る。
ルイス・キャロルの詩から着想を得た、
不条理で奇怪なコマ撮り映像作。
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The photograph is one of the defining images of the battle’s horror.
Official Canadian photographers (including William Rider-Rider, who documented many similar scenes) recorded the devastated landscape, mired equipment, and the near-impossible conditions faced by the infantry, pioneers, stretcher-bearers, and tank crews.
Tanks were largely ineffective here because the soft, cratered ground prevented them from crossing the shell holes; many simply became immobile targets. The image is held by Library and Archives Canada (PA-002195 / MIKAN references appear in related records) and appears in numerous official and commemorative collections. It remains a classic visual symbol of Passchendaele’s mud and of the Canadian Corps’ costly success in taking the objective where others had failed.
This is a well-known photograph from the Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres), November 1917. It is catalogued by Library and Archives Canada as PA-002195 and is widely reproduced (including in Imperial War Museum contexts and the Canadian Official Exchange Collection). The caption is typically “Tank in badly shelled mud area during the Battle of Passchendaele. Belgium, November 1917.”
The image shows a British tank (a Mark IV or similar) that has become stuck and damaged in the waterlogged Flanders mud, with the remains of light railway tracks in the foreground and a shell burst in the distance. It was taken amid the Canadian Corps’ final advance that captured the shattered village of Passchendaele itself on 6 November 1917.
Historical context,
By late 1917 the low-lying Ypres Salient had been reduced to a sea of shell craters after months of intense artillery fire destroyed the drainage system. Heavy autumn rains turned the ground into deep, sticky mud that swallowed men, horses, guns, and tanks. Earlier British, Australian, and New Zealand attacks had made only limited progress at enormous cost.
General Sir Arthur Currie, commanding the Canadian Corps, protested the conditions but was ordered to continue the offensive. The Canadians launched carefully prepared attacks from late October on to 6 November, the 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions (especially the 27th Battalion) seized the village ruins. Fighting continued until 10 November to secure the ridge. Canadian casualties were approximately 15,654 (more than 4,000 killed).
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Martin Scorsese's selection of essential film noirs. #Noirvember
source: taken from his various interviews.
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“Penny for the Guy!” An old English tradition seldom seen nowadays. Children hoping for coins for their Guy that would later be flung on the bonfire. London, 1952.
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Ukrainian cultural twist to native American who makes history as first female US governor
Taken from Ukraine on Instagram
As Deb Haaland makes history as the first native American woman governor in U.S. history, representing the Pueblo people, one detail in her archive photos stands out: the vibrant floral scarf around her neck.
In North America, it's known as a Kokum scarf. It's actually a traditional Ukrainian floral shawl, adopted by Indigenous peoples over a century ago.
In the late 1800s, tens of thousands of Ukrainian families arrived in Canada fleeing poverty and oppression. Among their few belongings were traditional bright, wool-fringed floral shawls known as khustky.
Settling in the harsh, unforgiving prairie winters, Ukrainian newcomers lived side by side with local First Nations. These families bonded over survival, trading crafts, food, and textiles.
Cree women fell in love with the vivid floral patterns and the warmth of the Ukrainian wool shawls. In oral histories, women recall trading hand-beaded moccasins for these intricate scarves.
Over generations, the scarf became an essential staple across Cree, Métis, Anishinaabe, and many other Indigenous nations. They called it the Kokum Scarf - from the Cree word kôhkom (grandmother).
It transformed into a revered symbol of matriarchs, elders, and the resilient women holding families together.
When russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, indigenous communities across Canada and the U.S. put on their Kokum scarves, sharing photos and messages of solidarity.
A century later, a piece of cloth traded on the frontier became a global emblem of unwavering support against oppression.
Photo/Charles F.Lummis, New Mexico History Museum
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