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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 49m

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
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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 · 13h

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 · 9h

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 · 3h

It’s not corruption because Eric Lipton said so.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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?

www.ceew.in

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 14h

Some detail on this

The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 24d

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941

Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be…

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941

Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be subject to payment of UK£4 or local currency equivalent. General blog entries are going to remain free, there are no plans for a subscription requirement, and the blog will remain advertisement-free as well, because we hate advertisement.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 24d

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941

Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be…

New Article (paid content) – Failure at Beda Fomm, 23 Dec 1941

Background Payment for (some) content is a new feature, in which we are trying to recover some of the cost for running the blog through providing in-depth content related to the desert war. Feature length articles such as this will be subject to payment of UK£4 or local currency equivalent. General blog entries are going to remain free, there are no plans for a subscription requirement, and the blog will remain advertisement-free as well, because we hate advertisement.

rommelsriposte.com

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Jenn de Jeune @jennay.bsky.social · 15h

Small adjustments made !🙄

Lemsip & Bob…

An oil painting of a deathbed scene, with various characters clustered round the bed in various poses.
A MAN WITH A COLD.
OIL ON CANVAS.

A small box of Lemsip and an image of Bob the cat has been added to the scene.

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

The Tories: Central planning is bad, we will not have an Industrial Strategy, government cannot make efficient choices. BTW, there is no such thing as society. May individual freedoms rule the economy.
Also the Tories: We must not allow people to study degrees that we deem non-beneficial to society.

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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps the most Scandinavian-sounding man to be a figure in national American politics was the wonderfully-named Ole Thorsteinsson Hanson (1874-1940.) He was Wisconsin-born (as you might expect from the name), the fifth child of Norwegian immigrants. Californians may know him as the founder of

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 19h

Asking vehicle owners for permission would kill the car theft industry.

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 22h

8 October 1582: A royal proclamation today, ordering that the law courts should be moved from Westminster to Hertford Castle for the current term, because of the plague spreading in London. A little odd, since only yesterday the Privy Council was planning for them to move to ... 1/
#earlymodern

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 21h

The assessments are BS though. GIGO at work.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 21h

No. That’s the worst kept secret of the last 20 years.

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

What could possibly go wrong?

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

I think UK parties are horribly confused and clueless about this whole coalition thing because of FPTP so I wouldn’t rule anything out.

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 1d

Just an ordinary photo-recce? You're wrong there. Picture of Plouha in France, illuminated by a 4.5-inch Photoflash bomb, taken at night. #WW2 #HISTORY

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

They have a self-publishing outlet and I suspect that’s responsible for a lot of that?

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

Yeah it’s becoming quite messy.

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

Screenshotted

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

Our constituency is now certainly a four, likely a five-way and it cannot be the only one. I wouldn’t put money onto any particular outcome.

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