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We owe pigeons huge thanks WW1&2 helped our survival
Several memorials for them incl ⬇️ #WarriorBirdsMemorial
#AnimalsInWarMemorial
#Winkie
#RoyalPigeonRacingAssoc's #BletchleyParkMemorials
#WarriorBirdsMemorial
#MaryOfExeter
#GustavThePigeon
#WilliamOfOrange
#Paddy
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#OTD #TDIH #December28, 1694 #DOTD #RIP #MaryIIOfEngland #QueensOfEngland #QueensOfScotland #QueensOfIreland #HouseOfStuart #WilliamIIIOfEngland #WilliamOfOrange #HouseOfOrangeNassau #WilliamAndMary #MonarchyOfEngland #MonarchyOfScotland #MonarchyOfIreland #MusicSky #ClassicalSky
Portrait of William of Orange
9 November 1688: William of Orange captured
#Exeter, four days after landing at #Brixham. History #WilliamofOrange #GloriousRevolution
Fruity Dutch monarch, military commander and Maybe Gay King William of Orange was BOTD in 1650. #williamoforange #maybegay #bornonthisday #royalfamily
#OTD
10th July 1584
William the Silent (William I of Orange) was assassinated at his home in Delft by a Catholic Frenchman called Balthasar Gérard.
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Boop!
#amateurphotography #aspiringphotographer #willemvanoranje #denhaag #williamoforange #thehague #boop
After #AdriaenThomaszKey (ca.1545-after 1589)
Portrait of #WilliamtheSilent, Prince of Orange (1533-84), Stadtholder of Holland, etc, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1572-92
#AmsterdamMuseum
#WilliamofOrange #WillemvanOranje #WillemdeZwijger
Circle of #DirckBarendsz (1534-1592)
Portrait of #WilliamtheSilent, Prince of Orange (1533-84), Stadtholder of Holland, etc, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1582-92
#Rijksmuseum
#WilliamofOrange #WillemvanOranje #WillemdeZwijger
#AdriaenThomaszKey (ca.1545-after 1589)
Portrait of #WilliamtheSilent, Prince of Orange (1533-84), Stadtholder of Holland, etc, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1579
#Rijksmuseum
#WilliamofOrange #WillemvanOranje #WillemdeZwijger
#AntonisMor (1519-75)
Portrait of #WilliamtheSilent, Prince of Orange (1533-84), Stadtholder of Holland, etc, who was #BornOnThisDay
1555
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
#WilliamofOrange #WillemvanOranje #WillemdeZwijger
Glencoe, by Horatio McCulloch, 1864; abandoned in the 1750s, by then it was a remote and empty landscape
Memorial at Glencoe
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaC... t #SecondAngloDutchWar led to #RampJaar & #Dutch eating the #DutchPrimeMinister #DeWittBrothers & restore #WilliamOfOrange cc. @susanfromontario.bsky.social @jdnovel.bsky.social @steeletalks.bsky.social @jodyvance.bsky.social @nellminow.bsky.social @coachbz.bsky.social
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9 November 1688: William of Orange captured #Exeter, four days after landing at #Brixham. #History #WilliamofOrange #GloriousRevolution
William & Mary
#WilliamOfOrange & #MaryStuart were crowned William III & Mary II #OnThisDay in 1689 — the only joint sovereigns in #England's #history. William's biggest achievement was assembling the coalition that finally defeated #LouisXIV's #France after William's death...
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