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The Crusader Project

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Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER. www.rommelsriposte.com

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · Dec 10

This Bluesky feed serves to disseminate information and new posts related to Operation CRUSADER, the #desertwar in WW2 and #ww2 in general.

If desert #armour warfare, surrendering Germans, and challenges to preconceived ideas about the Italians are your thing, you might want to give us a follow.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 36m

Thanks!

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I turned the radio off when they went on and on about it. Good reminder why I won’t take UK citizenship.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 14h

Bit amazed by this bit:

'Investigators said they found a degraded gasket had created a fuel system leak, which caused the power loss.

The agency found the system was "at least 70-years-old and its last overhaul date was unknown"'

WW2 Spitfire had to do emergency landing as engine stopped

A safety notice is now in place following the emergency landing in West Hythe.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1h

a close up of elmo from sesame street with big eyes and a yellow beak .

ALT: a close up of elmo from sesame street with big eyes and a yellow beak .

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 2h

Which one?

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Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social · 2h

While official histories can be interesting, the archival files related to their production are even more fascinating.

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saturnax1.bsky.social @saturnax1.bsky.social · 1d

#SubThursday #Submarines
"Survey of the K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine lying on the bottom of the Norwegian Sea" by Prokhor Vechkanov

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 13h

And all of that is before we get into the electoral complexities of 4- or 5-way marginals where it is not at all clear that voting Labour would actually prevent the outcome threatened to us if we don’t vote Labour.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 13h

I drive into our town past England flags on lamp posts every day.

The constituency’s Labour MP is equivocating rather than addressing my legitimate concerns, presumably because Head Office has instructed them that racists matter more. Why the fuck would I vote for them?

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 13h

Pretty stupid of Labour then that they piss off the very people who, by voting for them, could prevent all that.

Blackmail is not a viable electoral strategy.

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Dr. Christina Hotalen @drchristinah.bsky.social · Dec 31

It arrived today on the last day of the year, and I couldn’t be happier. It is very validating to see my name in a Cambridge University Press publication.

Hardcover of Women and the Army in the Roman Empire, edited by Lee L. Brice and Elizabeth M. Greene

To all the female scholars whose insights, industry, and perseverance smote the darkness to illuminate the lives of ancient women and paved the way for future research and publication on this topic.

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 16h

More receipts for the project recipients being closely engaged with famously not cheap aDNA research (the 2nd author on this co-authored article is employed by and did this work in the context of the largest adNA project ever conducted, the ERC's HistoGenes www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...)

Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic | Speculum: Vol 100, No 2

Abstract Archaeological evidence from funerary contexts is largely ignored in current scholarship on the First Plague Pandemic, despite the important information that burials and cemeteries can provid...

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 17

You all probably know that the halos of saints viewed from behind do look like slices of lemon, right? This is how "Paradise" looks according to the book of hours from Duke of Berry, by the way. #bookhistory

Detail of "Paradise" taken from "Très Riches heures du Duc de Berry", c. 1412-1416, Folio 126r ( https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Très_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry#/media/File%3AFolio_126r_-_Paradise.jpg ). You see a group of saints from behind: their halos look like slices of lemon.

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 1d

How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland. Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery, explains Viktoriia Krivoshchekova @dias.ie
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How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland

Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery

www.rte.ie

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah well maybe if Labour didn’t revel in anti-migrant rhetoric, trashing the environment and handing people’s data to hackers, more voters might actually consider them?

A wild thought I know, for people who buy into ‘sensible people must vote Labour to prevent a Reform government no matter what’

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Lemme be succinct for a minute then I'll log off because this is pointless:

The pro-natalist thing is pretty firmly rooted in racism and xenophobia. Anti-immigration sentiment.

You are doing a service to it if you try to remove that component and debate its merits in isolation.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 22h

Look just after 25 minutes here: patrimonio.archivioluce.com/luce-web/det...

Gloria

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 23h

Today's favourite #warart

Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina

Pontoon-mounted heavy gun for the defence of Venice after Caporetto.

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Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina
Summary
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Giulio Aristide Sartorio: Pontoon (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL) Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860–1932) wikidata:Q1062517 s:it:Autore:Giulio Aristide Sartorio q:it:Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Alternative names
Birth name: Giulio Aristide Sartorio; G. A. Sartorio; Aristide Sartorio; giulio aristide sartorio; g. a. sartorio; A. Sartorio; Sartorio G. A.; G. A. S.
Description
Italian painter, sculptor, writer and film director
Date of birth/death
11 February 1860 Edit this at Wikidata
3 October 1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death
Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Horti Galateae Edit this at Wikidata
Work period
circa 1876 Edit this at Wikidata–1932 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Rome; Naples (1879); Paris (1884); Paris (1889); Paris (1893); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1893); Middle East (1919); South America (1924); Mediterranean Sea (1929); Weimar (1896–1899); Italian Front (1917–1918) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
wikidata:Q1062517: Q1062517 VIAF: 57427015 ISNI: 0000000121345620 ULAN: 500016640 LCCN: n79065097 Open Library: OL905545A WorldCat
Photographer
Francesco Taurisano
Title
Italian: Tigre
Pontoon "Tigre"
Object type
painting
Description
Pontoon "Tigre" (1917), by Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Medium
oil on canvas glued on cardboard
Dimensions
height: 58 cm (22.8 in); width: 78 cm (30.7 in)
Collection
Museum collection of the Farnesina (Q3683042)
Accession number
1917
Place of creation
Italian Front, World War I
Credit line
Provenance: Italian Club of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Inscriptions
Signature and date upperlefr:
G.A. Sartorio Capo ... - XII - Dicembre MCMXVII
Source/Photographer
Google Arts & Culture — DQEV4L9GLjcc9Q

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1d

Who wants a thread of my digital artworks? Well tough, you’re getting one

Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 1d

Thanks to all for the good wishes. Just waiting now, in my gown feeling like an extra from Up Pompeii! Anyway gave me a bit of time to finish this - Donald Campbell at Lake Eyre in 1964 with Bluebird CN7

Digital artwork in the style of an oil painting, medium shot of Donald Campbell, smiling, in a blue jumper and cream trousers, resting one hand on the nose of his land speed record car Bluebird CN7

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not corruption because Eric Lipton said so.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1d

Unlike in the US India needs to import coal, which makes it less economically attractive.

In any case, this is a good overview of govt plans.

ddnews.gov.in/en/india-to-...

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 1d

Non sequitur. Solar is the cheapest power generation source (LCOE) in India now and this will only become cheaper. It is heavily investing in it with international support. Right now govt is planning for an additional 36GW coal over what is already in construction and constructed by 2031/32.

How can India meet its Rising Electricity Demand in a Reliable and Cost-Effective Manner?