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So apparently last time I logged in here was 4 years ago.

In Summary: Finished Bachelors Degree Did Masters Degree

Moved to Latvia, taught English

Moved to Hungary, taught English

Moved back to the UK

Started current job of which I cannot speak!

And that's about it.

#itsbeenawhile

Wow it's been a while, anyone still alive around here?

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In Romi’s antique shop on the Left Bank, Paris, photographer Robert Doisneau set up his camera to catch the public’s reaction after the proprietor noticed the amount of attention this picture, painted ca. 1900, by an artist named Wagner was receiving, 1949

From LIFE Magazine, May 23, 1949

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Percentage of Residents in the former USSR by country that regret the dissolution of the USSR.

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They didn’t ask anyone in the Baltic states because they would have been punched in the face

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*Sees people throwing snowballs at random strangers in the street*

*Internally* People in Boston have been shot for less.

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1st Prussian Foot Guards.

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Colin Mochrie is the undisputable fucking king of Improv

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RIGHT! I saw him live the other weekend. Terrific

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British soldier and little girl eye each other up during ‘The Troubles’ in Belfast, Northern Ireland… c.1981

via reddit

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“Our soldiers in Siberia! They have gone over the top for us. Let us go over the top for them. Buy War Saving Stamps. Merry Christmas with the Čecho-Slováks, 1918”, by Illinois Litho. Co. [Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918]

The poster appears to be directed at the Czechoslovak Legion,

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Allied troops parade in Vladivostock, Siberia, 1918, during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

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Murmansk Legion, also known as the Finnish Legion, was a British Royal Navy organized military unit during the 1918–1919 Allied North Russia Intervention. It was composed of Finnish Red Guards who had fled after the Finnish Civil War from the White dominated Northern Finland to Soviet Russia and of some Finns working on the Murmansk Railroad. The Legion fought the 1918 Viena expedition of Finnish White Guards and defended the Murmansk Railroad along with British troops. Finnish White Guards had started their military campaign in March 1918. The goal was to annex White Karelia from Bolshevist Russia. British Royal Marines had invaded Murmansk at the same time to prevent the Germans and their Finnish White Guard allies from gaining the White Sea coast and the Murmansk Railroad. Murmansk Legion was armed with British equipment and wore British uniforms. The Legion was led by Oskari Tokoi and Verner Lehtimäki who were both promoted as Colonel by the British Navy. Strength of the Legion peaked in February 1919 and was about 1,200 men. Murmansk Legion was first approved by Lenin but he later condemned it. Murmansk Legion was disbanded in 1919 as the British troops withdraw. Some fled to Canada, others would fight in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans.

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Backsword from England dated to around 1740 on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh

The sword has a silver hilt that was made by Charles Kandler of London and was part of a full set of Scottish Highland dress and accoutrements. These were presented by James, 3rd Duke of Perth to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, while in exile.

The sword appeared in the Royal Collection, presumably captured by the Duke of Cumberland after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

Photographs taken by myself

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How have I been to the National Museum about a dozen times and never seen this?

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Pretty sure I remember it from my visit, cant remember the floor but it was part of the Scottish history section part of a display on the ‘45 rebellion.