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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada

@normagraham.bsky.social

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Retired 🇨🇦 librarian, happily married, liberal/progressive. Grey/Bruce is home. Obsessed with Canadian military history. Current research: Len Birchall, the Saviour of Ceylon. I am blessed with the kindest friends in the world.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 16h

🇩🇪⚠️ German intelligence has stated that Putin is ready to start a war with Europe "at any moment."

Moscow intends to test the strength of European borders, and this could happen at any time, stated head of BND.

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Pulling up weeds and getting the garden ready for winter. Hard work but it’s a nice day anyway.

Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I saw this! I’ll take you out to the garden with me.

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 2d

Mine is from “Sandman Slim” by Richard Kadrey: “I wake up on a pile of smouldering garbage and leaves in the old Hollywood Forever cemetery behind the Paramount Studio lot, though those details don’t come back to me until later. Right now, all I know is that I’m back in the world and I’m on fire.”

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 3d

Putin wouldn’t know good faith if it bit him. Neither, of course, would Melania.

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 6d

Some of them don’t appear to share their sources. I guess that’s a red flag, innit?

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 6d

That’s actually quite helpful, thank you. 😊

Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 6d

Also possibly quite unreliable.

Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, I believe so.

Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 6d

Question for my historian friends: what do you do when you’re researching something and find massive contradictions in secondary sources? Like, I’m talking yawning gulfs between descriptions of events? 😳

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 7d

Ford and his crew think the laws don’t apply to them.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 8d

They’re not acting like they’re in a four-year term.

They’re acting like they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 8d

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Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social · 9d

Great news! Glider Pilots in Sicily is now available in paperback. Follow the link below to order your copy. Find out about the GPR and its pivotal role in Operation Ladbroke and Operation Fustian.

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Glider Pilots in Sicily

This well-researched book by an expert of his subject lifts the veil on the first large scale British use of gliders in action. This occurred…

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 10d

She was an extraordinary woman, whose experiences changed her worldview in many positive ways. We could use a lot more Angelas in the world. ❤️

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 10d

Of course! It’s a book all SWW history fans should read!

Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 10d

I finished listening to “1944: The Reckoning” by @philmcraig.bsky.social today, and now I’m sad because I didn’t want it to end! I got attached to many of the people he profiles in the book (especially nurse Angela). I’m going to have to listen again from the start. Beautiful book, well narrated!

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Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 10d

Same.

Norma Graham, part owner of Canada @normagraham.bsky.social · 13d

At age 64, I recently returned to university in Ontario. I notice most of the young women are in track pants. With the warm weather there are a lot of crop tops too. They look comfy and confident. Love to see that.