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🇫🇮Amateur kids. There's a legend in which two WW2 Finnish Curtiss drivers drew a female organ to the Karelian skies with Russian antiaircraft puffs. Even the ace of aces 'Illu' Juutilainen claimed he made one.
I can understand the historians' frustration😄🧐🇫🇮

www.news18.com/world/finlan...

Agami Herons.

HARMSLEAVE
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An extraordinary adventure in alternative history.

#Kindle #KindleUnlimited and paperback:
amazon.com/dp/B0C49FMY3K and other Amazon marketplaces

harmsleave.com

#books #bookpromos

Promises(&mail) made;Promises(&mail)delivered!
No.168(Heavy Transport) Sqn,RCAF
#OTD
OnAPR21,1946 the Sqn is disbanded at RCAF Rockcliffe
after carrying 1 million kgs of mail on trans-Atlantic flights thru WW2
in 2 B-17 Flying Fortresses stripped of armament
MORE
www.vintagewings.ca/stories/lett...

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Thanks (from) a million(swimmers), Donnie.
Back to home knitted.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Reg Varney and Stephen Lewis take a break from filming at Windsor Safari Park (Mutiny on the Buses)

That series is just non-stop bangers. A short thread:

Finnish Captain Kalaja's "command staff." Utti Airbase July 1941. Captain Heikki Kalaja(in the middle) was the leader of 1./LeLv 10(No 10 Sqn), flying Hurricanes. He went MIA 16 Sep 1941 during a ground attack against Russians, and was later declared dead. (22525/SA-Kuva)

Finnish Captain Kalaja's "command staff." Utti Airbase July 1941.
Captain Heikki Kalaja(in the middle) was the leader of 1./LeLv 10(No 10 Sqn), flying Hurricanes. He went MIA 16 Sep 1941 during a ground attack against Russians, and was later declared dead. (22525/SA-Kuva)

a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field ALT: a man with ice on his face is standing in a snowy field

Wait—there’s a writer-in-residence program in Antarctica?

You can literally go to the most remote place on earth to write.

This might be the coldest opportunity I’ve ever seen! As a Floridian I will probably not be taking advantage of it, lol.

polarsteam.info/faq/

Spilled too much IBCC stuff?

Happy birthday Rome. Rome was founded on 21 April 753BC

#OTD, 0214 British Time in 1945, Mosquito XVI ML929 from 109 Squadron, dropped the last RAF bombs on Berlin. (The Russians were about to enter the city). The crew were Flying Officer A.C. Austin, pilot, and Flying Officer P. Moorhead, navigator. #WW2 #HISTORY

The remarkable early-Norman crypt (1078) at St Mary's, Lastingham (North Yorks).
Burial place of St Cedd incorporating Saxon stone from the earlier church, and complete with nave, apse and side aisles.
Time peels away as you descend into this special ancient place!
📸2025

Boldwood announces fourteen new authors and a Japanese partnership - Boldwood Boldwood is delighted to announce the acquisition of fourteen new authors- bringing the total number of writers on their list to 231. The new writers reflect Boldwood’s energetic acquisition strategy ...

I guess the news is out. I’m delighted to be joining Boldwood Books for my next series of military thrillers. I’m flattered that such innovators in the publishing space see potential in me for greater things. Onwards!

www.boldwoodbooks.com/news-story/b...

FACT OF THE DAY. 21 April 1926. Elizabeth II was born in 17 Bruton Street, London. She reigned from 6 February 1952 until 8 September 2022. She was the longest-lived and longest-reigning British monarch. She was also the longest-serving female head of state in world history. #Elizabeth100

#OTD in 1918, legendary Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, was killed. #WW1 #HISTORY

😕Seriously, I do not have a clue why US Democrats' TikTok has a series of images with very harsh profanities in Finnish as voiceover.
Still 4/20?😶‍🌫️

www.tiktok.com/@democrats/p...

Morning Moz!🌞

'Martin’s Eyes’ selected by 'The Times' as one of eight 'great historical novels to read in April’. Review says ‘a nuanced, moving take on a perpetual question: how did normal men become foot soldiers to Hitler’s appalling vision?’

'Martin’s Eyes’ selected by 'The Times' as one of eight 'great historical novels to read in April’. Review says ‘a nuanced, moving take on a perpetual question: how did normal men become foot soldiers to Hitler’s appalling vision?’ More info www.bismarckbattle.com/martins-eyes/
#WW2 #histfic

Morning Paul!🌞

"Jeppe Niilonpoika" play in Kouvola Theatre in 1965. "Jeppe on the Hill; Or, The Transformed Peasant" (Danish: "Jeppe på bjerget") is a Danish comedy by the Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg, written during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. (KMV55:979/Kouvola City Museum)

Good Morning from the land of the Finns, #Bluesky🌞

Happy Birthday to George Takei (April 20, 1937 – Present)

Takei was named after King George VI, whose coronation took place shortly after Takei’s birth. Takei loves British culture, products, and the country itself, so it appears his namesake has rubbed off on him.

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“A girl sitting on the other side of the pool lowered her book and looked at me. She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She was unquestioningly gorgeous. She was, in short, too bloody much.”

Burton on seeing Taylor for the first time at a Hollywood party.

Edward G. Robinson in #FilmNoir Double Indemnity (1944)

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Name a comic book you wish was adapted to film.

(There's an animation movie but no live action of 'Corto Maltese in Siberia')