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@batemanesque He's making Lionel Hutz look highly competent.

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@LookAtMyMeat1 The George Lucas lightsabre choreography:

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@AndrewRTDavies Punch were mocking this idea during the actual war...

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@punt_rd She's also the doomed Irish mother in Titanic

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@pompei79 Reject modernity, embrace tradition etc.

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@archeohistories You know that story about Philip of Macedon sending a message to Sparta saying "If I invade Sparta, I will destroy you" and the Spartans sent back "If"? Yeah, he invaded Sparta and destroyed a huge chunk of their territory.

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A fire around 170AD damaged the forum at Wroxeter, causing a market stall full of dishes, mixing bowls and whetstones to fall into a gutter. Here are the dishes and here is the gutter. #roman #history #romanbritain #classics #ClassicsTwitter

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A ROMAN TENT AND TENT PEGS! The tent is made from leather and the stitch holes and some stitches are still in place. #AncientHistory #History #Historyteacher #Classics #ClassicsTwitter #Scotland #Romans #RomanBritain #RomanArmy

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#mosaicmonday 1st - 3rd century labyrinth moasic found in Caerleon, Wales in the 19th century, part of what would have been the residence of a high ranking officer. #Romans #RomanBritain #Wales #AncientHistory #History #Classics #ClassicsTwitter #historyteacher #archaeology

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@GoingMedieval Been reading medieval etiquette manuals recently (as you do) and most of them have a bit about NOT befriending the local cats while taking part in a formal meal. Which suggests cats are both really common and have been jumping onto the dinner table mid meal for centuries.

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OTD: 26th April 1944. After months of planning, everything is ready. The team moves into position near the chosen ambush point, a sharp bend in the road between the general's HQ and his private villa at Knossos. In the previous days, they have been joined by additional…

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OTD: 6th February 1944. At dawn after a full day and night trek, Paddy, Sandy, and the Andartes make it to the "home-cave" deep in the ancient and cypress strewn mountains above the villages of Kritsa and Tapai. It is from here that Paddy will use a clandestine radio to contact…

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2024 is a big year for anniversaries. Normandy, Warsaw, Arnhem etc. However, long term followers will know that I'm a bit obsessed with the abduction of General Kreipe by agents of the SOE, which took place in the spring of 1944. To mark the anniversary, I'm going to be…

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Can I start going around saying Waterloo was won by a magician who cast spells to defeat the French? After all, its not a documentary and I wasn't there... #JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell #Napoleon #History

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Lead stamps to mark bread made by each Century of the legion, along with replica bread. 1st and 2nd century. @TavolaMed #RomanBritain #Wales #AncientHistory #History #Classics #ClassicsTwitter #historyteacher #foodhistory #baking

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@Knightly_H Why not? Their take on Greek mythology is that Medusa, the Minotaur etc did indeed exist.

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OTD: 6th February 1944. At dawn after a full day and night trek, Paddy, Sandy, and the Andartes make it to the "home-cave" deep in the ancient and cypress strewn mountains above the villages of Kritsa and Tapai. It is from here that Paddy will use a clandestine radio to contact…

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@marinamaral2 It's currently on display at the Museum of London

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Spotted the most terrifying pub sign in Nottingham...

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@LibertarianTrap @Glacea13 @ReviewsPossum One of the first things you see in Fallout 1 is American soldiers shooting a man in the head and laughing, before it cuts to advertisements and the camera pans out to show the blasted wasteland and a voice explains that the war was fought over resources...

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@IwriteOK I am, once again, amazed at how emotionally invested some people claim to be over what some guy in an office in an industrial estate in Nottingham slapped together to hit a deadline before going to the onsite pub.

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@JimMFelton Has he considered doing some overtime and cutting back on the avocados on toast?

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@PoliticsMoments Why not? It's medical history, business history, political history, pop culture history all rolled into one.

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@JimMFelton Jets in is an interesting choice. Was he originally going to propeller in but chose a jet instead?

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@Knightly_H @PencilBun If so, that line has also been crossed by dozens of other pieces of media and pop culture.

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@DeborahMeaden This is all because the NT had the audacity to actually say what the people who built these grand and lovely houses that dot the landscape actually did for a living and that makes them feel awkward.

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#epigraphytuesday A gravestone from Great Bulmore dedicated to Julius Valens, a 100 year old veteran of the 2nd Legion. His wife Julia Secunda & his son Julius Martinus set it up for him. #Romans #RomanBritain #Wales #AncientHistory #History #ClassicsTwitter #Archaeology

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@CSMFHT He's Pontius Pilate's gweat fwend in Wome.

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A thread on Roman cheese presses, to be updated as and when I encounter more of them. To start, my local. Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, originally found in Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent. #cheese #Romans #history #classicstwitter #archaeology #RomanCheese #food #foodhistory

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@PrimalPolitical Also they literally did get a pay rise as the war progressed...

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@DouglasCarswell Oh Douglas...

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@Menkvi @JoshuaPotash No one knows, it's a complete mystery.

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OTD: 28th April 1944, right now 18:19 GMT, a German radio message is sent & intercepted by British signals intelligence, to be decoded & translated at Bletchley Park. The message reads that the general's car has been found abandoned with a letter left behind. The letter states:…

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OTD: 28th April 1944. The team continues through the foothills of Mount Ida, the general atop a mule wearing Stratis' police greatcoat for warmth, looking much like Napoleon. They are very careful to never use the words "Kreipe" or "Strategos" in case he overhears and realises…

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@DrNWillburger Interesting! You sometime see spouted buckets being used to serve wine in much later artwork.

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@waitmanb His article on the subject mysteriously also cuts off at 1940, without telling the readers how the discussions concluded. Can't think why...

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#FrescoFriday The Camp Stool Fresco, standing & seated Minoans drinking from cups and bowls and "La Parisienne" a female figure that may be a priestess or goddess. 1400BC, Knossos, now displayed in Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. #ClassicsTwitter #Archaeology #History

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@JimMFelton Yeah it's a different world now. Whoever heard of there being terrorism in the 1970s?

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#MosaicMonday , 4th-5th century AD mosaic showing hunting scenes, from Lappa, Crete. Now displayed in Rethymnon Archaeological Museum. #Crete #Greece #Roman #Mosaic #Art #Archaeology #Classics #ClassicsTwitter #AncientGreece

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@Silk_Scribbler The photo is of George Doundoulakis, not George Psychoundakis. Doundoulakis was also a member of the Cretan resistance and his brother Helias (who became an OSS agent) wrote books about his wartime experience and family connections with PLF. This is George Psychoundakis:

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@bad_histories Cancel Culture is when you have a major Hollywood movie made about your life, where you're portrayed by one of the great actors of the age?

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Oh wow! Drawings and poems by Victor Jones, a British POW captuered in Crete showing the battle, describing life in the camp and the desire to go home! @cluelesspegg @Fallschirmjger5 @militaryhistori @WeHaveWaysPod @James1940 @almurray #History #WW2 #WarArt #WarPoetry

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@fakehistoryhunt guess what they've got in the history section!

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Of course no trip down that London is complete without popping in to the Big Waterstones! @WaterstonesPicc

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@Zero_4 Wait until he finds out about the mandatory driving passports you need before you're allowed behind the wheel. And the government imposed tests on the vehicle every single year. And the government requirement to hand over your data and money to a private company. And...

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SOE agent Stephen Verney volunteered after learning that Greek speakers were needed for a secret mission. It was only when he had been trained in clandestine activities that anyone realised he meant he could speak ancient Greek, not modern, and a translator had to be found...

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‘I shall never forget the after-dinner speech that Lord Hailsham made in Athens at a European Speakers' Conference… He delivered his speech in Greek. Unfortunately, he did so in Ancient Greek and nobody understood a word!’ Former Speaker Lord Weatherill on Lord Hailsham (2001)

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Statue of Hermes from the Antikythera shipwreck!!! #ClassicsTwitter #History #Archaeology #Science

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@fakehistoryhunt If I recall this has been debunked but can't remember where. I think the original article only looked into how much time peasants spent working for their lord, without factoring in they'd then need to work their own land as well, in addition to work that has to be done daily.

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"Roman clay pastry mould" from Craven Museum, Skipton. @Pottedhistory @PottedApprentis @TavolaMed @TastingHistory1 #RomanBritain #ClassicsTwitter #History #AncientHistory #Yorkshire

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@CSMFHT Ah yes, Austria, that well known part of Mesopotamia.

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First hand account of the surrender or Crete and march into captivity, by a New Zealander who escaped from a POW camp and was rescued by SOE and the submarine HMS Thrasher! #WW2 #SWW #Greece #Crete #History @Fallschirmjger5

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@Earth_Mysteries @archeohistories Yes, but the clothes and flesh have since rotted away leaving hollow cavities in the ash, which archaeologists fill with plaster (or resin) to make casts of the victims and artefacts. This infographic explains is.

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No doubt everyone who crucified the IWM social media team will be all over this, right? Right?

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We’ve now looked into the catalogue description for AYY 238/2 and can confirm it was incorrectly labelled. As can be seen in this image, the original record from the War Office supplied with the film in 1942 does incorrectly label the aircraft in the film as Spitfires. <1/2>

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@flaroh I managed to use my elite hacker skills to get round their NFT store by... taking a photo of the board advertising them.

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@Conor1971 Are we really doing the "Nazi Germany is when there's flags" bit again?

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Popped out to the #HiddenHolt exhibition @wrexhammuseums . Small but very well put together display of some of the finds from a Roman army pottery and tile works producing material for the fortress at Chester. #ClassicsTwitter #RomanBritain #History #HistoryTeacher #Archaeology

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First, some background to make sure we are all on the same page. The island of Crete fell to the Nazis in June 1941 despite a truly heroic defence by Commonwealth and Greek defenders. Partisan and resistance groups formed almost instantly, and agents of the Special Operations…

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2024 is a big year for anniversaries. Normandy, Warsaw, Arnhem etc. However, long term followers will know that I'm a bit obsessed with the abduction of General Kreipe by agents of the SOE, which took place in the spring of 1944. To mark the anniversary, I'm going to be…

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@LuisKeitaF @LookAtMyMeat1 Of course it is. Of course.

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@evavseveryone Chris (Luke): You don't believe in the force, do you? Peter (Han): Oh, you mean that thing you just learned about three hours ago, and am now judging me for not believing in?

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@PrimalPolitical Yeah, whoever heard of anyone complaining about soldiers pay during war time?! I mean, apart from Captain Cunningham-Reid, Conservative MP...

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The two SOE agents killed in occupied Crete, Dudley Churchill Perkins and William Arthur Knox, are both buried in Souda Bay Allied War Cemetery, beautifully maintained and looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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As well as fighting on air, land, and sea, the Allies fought a subtle war of intelligence and espionage for the liberation of Europe and beyond. In our latest blog, we tell the story of agents of the SOE: #LegacyofLiberation #DDay80

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In a continuing effort to become a parody of myself, I took a day off to go to a biscuit museum... There's one that apparently survived the Blitz!

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@TheMERL 3600 year old rock crystal duck bowl/cup from Mycenae.

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I'd stopped endlessly sharing museum photos for the weekend, but the Winchester city museum is too good to not share! #RomanBritain #AncientHistory #History #Classics #ClassicsTwitter

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#OTD : 04/02/1944, the mission to kidnap a German general begins! A converted bomber carries a handpicked team. SOE agent Patrick "Paddy" Leigh Fermor parachutes into the isolated Lasithi mountains of eastern Crete. Sudden clouds force the plane & the others to turn back. 1/4

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3500 year old Minoan ceramic wine press from Fourni, on display at Archanes museum, Crete. #Minoans #History #Archaeology #Crete #Greece #BronzeAge #Wine #WineMaking #FoodHistory @KJSoar @timatkin @NormalWine @Pottedhistory @PottedApprentis @emlynkd

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Pottery jars, amphora and flagons from the fortress at Usk. Some locally made, some imported from the continent. @Pottedhistory #RomanBritain #Wales #AncientHistory #History #Classics #ClassicsTwitter

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@Earth_Mysteries @archeohistories There are skeletons inside the plaster casts.

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@DSAArchaeology A brilliant example of how people will see something in a youtube video and then repeat it, years later, even without any kind of evidence other than the video.

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@allisonpearson @djnicholl @djbradshaw64 @Telegraph Cruel and defamatory remarks you say?

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@fakehistoryhunt Ah yes, the Lancaster bomber, famously used in the Great War.

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SOE agent Major Dennis Ciclitira's photos taken in Crete, showing the Cretan landscape, civilians and guerillas & German soldiers owards the end of the war. #WW2 #History #SOE #Greece #Crete #SecretWar @WeHaveWaysPod @James1940 @almurray @WW2TV @Fallschirmjger5 @militaryhistori

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@HallieRubenhold @RadioTimes @k8_lister It would have taken exactly the same amount of effort for them to write "historians"...

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@tomhfh @riccilong Is this one photoshopped as well?

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Italy looks like a boot!

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@williemillersm1 @JimMFelton Leadership that thinks its common sense to ignore the fire services advice.

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So, for the last year, I've been writing a live action supernatural murder mystery. 15,000 words later and it's this weekend! To kick things off, my best Anthony Blanche impression. Brandy Alexander. Yum. Yum (and definitely not Frijj milkshake...). #LARP #MurderMystery

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@Michael_Dunn4 @JimMFelton Horrible Histories did a sketch where Queen Victoria goes through various British things only to find out they're not actually British. ELEVEN YEARS AGO!

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Not saying I'm keen or anything, but I'm getting all my 'slides' and props ready for my 8pm show, at 7am... @CVHISTORYFEST #CVHF #AmazingHistory #SOE #Crete #Greece #WW2 #SWW #History #HistoryTeacher #PatrickLeighFermor

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@GoingMedieval This being the Rome that had stepping stones in the street so you didnt have to walk through the sewage?

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@WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940 I'm not saying I'm afflicted, but I'm about to take a plane, a train, a ferry, a bus and a 10+ hour hike, to look at... an empty field where Patrick Leigh Fermor landed 80 years ago. Got to walk the ground! #HussarStunt #WW2 #SOE #History

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I'm on a train! On an adventure! To London! To go to a museum! For fun! @I_W_M #Museums #DownThatLondon #Spies #SecondWorldWar #History

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Statue of Wojtek the bear in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, with plaque telling his story. #WW2 #SWW #Poland #Edinbugh #history #historyteacher #amazinghistory #wehavewaysIC #independentcompany @WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940 @militaryhistori @SilenceInPolish

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The view from the the mouth of the cave, the entrance passage, the ceiling and natural rock formations and some berk who thought it would be fun to climb up a mountain instead of sitting in Athens sipping ouzo...

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@BenRamanauskas If its of such benefits to ordinary people, why the need to hide the source of funding?

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@chrisbizarre2 @Jeremy_Hunt So why didn't we pay off the debt 1st February 2020?

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#OTD : 4th February 1944, late in the evening, Patrick Leigh Fermor lands in the remote Katharo plateau in eastern Crete. I'm off to try and find the exact spot... #HussarStunt #History #WW2 #Greece #Crete #SOE #WalkTheGround @WeHaveWaysPod @James1940 @almurray @militaryhistori

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Diary of Captain William Stanley Moss, 2nd February 1944, part 1 of 2. Move to Italy. Black market restaurants, cinema and opera. An awkward dinner with Kitten's husband. State of the population, including syphilis and VD. Yet more book reviews, then planning for the jump... -…

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@McDougallSophia Wow, THAT is the standard of history education you get at Harrow? I'd be asking for a refund if I were his parents...

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@Uberseehandel @waitmanb Defending Normandy on behalf of who?

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OTD: 30th April 1944. The team spends a truly miserable night crossing the shoulder of Mount Ida. The weather is against them. Wind, rain and cloud, scrambling up the slope "steepened to the tilt of ladder". They shelter for a time is a shepherds hut before continuing on and at…

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OTD: 29th April 1944. A few hours later, the team reach the "lair" of the local resistance leader Kapetan (Captain) Petrakoyorghis, who welcomes them warmly. While there, they meet up with other British agents, John Lewis, John Houseman and Reg Everson. Together they manage to…

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And back! 40km. On foot. In WW2 British Army boots, partly in the dark. There's walking the ground and there's mortification of the flesh...

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Todays mission accomplished! Heading back to basecamp. Though I keep getting distracted by the view... #Greece #Crete

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#OTD : 4th February 1944, the mission truly begins! Out of the darkness of the late night sky, a converted Halifax bomber of the clandestine 148 Special Duties Squadron swoops down over the Katharo plateau. In place of bombs, it holds our 4 friends, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William…

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#OTD : 4th February 1944, late in the evening, Patrick Leigh Fermor lands in the remote Katharo plateau in eastern Crete. I'm off to try and find the exact spot... #HussarStunt #History #WW2 #Greece #Crete #SOE #WalkTheGround @WeHaveWaysPod @James1940 @almurray @militaryhistori

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A pottery stamp for bread, to identify the maker/owner of individual loaves when taken out of a communal oven. #Bread #Baking #BreadMaking #RomanBritain #History #HistoryTeacher #FoodHistory @TavolaMed @DeliciousLegacy

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Roman "cheese strainer", 2nd century, Derby Museum. #AncientHistory #History #Historyteacher #Classics #ClassicsTwitter #Romans #RomanBritain #Cheese #RomanCheese @TavolaMed @TastingHistory1 @Pottedhistory @PottedApprentis @CheeseTastingCo

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Kreipes driver was Alfred Fenske, a 30 year old sergeant. Years later, the Cretan woman in whose home he was billeted recalls he "tall, skinny, scrawny, but young and likeable." He carried a photo of his wife and son in his paybook and gave his chocolate rations to children in…

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Paddy pulls the general from the car and dumps him on the roadside. The driver in a panic attempts to reach for his Luger. Billy strikes him across the head with his batton and likewise pulls him from the car. The Greek partisans pounce upon the general and hogtie him.…

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Diary of Captain William Stanley Moss: 7th January 1944. Moss has a nice lie-in, there's yet more equipment, CASUALLY ADMITS HE WAS TOO BUSY PARTYING AT TARA TO ACTUALLY DO ANY KIND OF PARACHUTE TRAINING BEFORE THIS TOP SECRET PARACHUTE MISSION (hence why he has no jump…

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Traffic jam! #Greece #Crete #Goats

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Kyle Glover

@KyleGHistory

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@WesternOpin1 Remarkable that drones can be used to hunt down people walking across an empty field, but there's apparently noone watching the security cameras at the head of governments official residence...

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Kyle Glover

@KyleGHistory

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Large drinking cup showing Odysseus surfing on two jars, while fish look on and Boreas,the North Wind, tries to blow him away. On the back Odysseus confronts Circe? #Classics #ClassicsTwitter #TheOdyssey #Homer #history #ancienthistory #Greece @CSMFHT

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Kyle Glover

@KyleGHistory

2 years

@willcannock @PoliticsMoments My genius knows no beginning.

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Kyle Glover

@KyleGHistory

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OTD: 3rd May 1944. A new hiding place. Neither Paddy or Billy are specific but it's somewhere in the Valley of Gomara. Scouts report that the beach they were planning to use to escape is guarded by up to 200 German soldiers, so a new plan is needed. Paddy and George will leave…

Kyle Glover

@KyleGHistory

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OTD: 2nd May 1944. The team are still sheltering in the overgrown riverbed and it's still raining. Morale is low. George goes into town and returns with a basket of food and wine, and also news and rumours. The German cordon has moved away, up the mountain, with soldiers calling…

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